
From the 17th to the 24th of June 2019, a team of six people undertook the 3rd fieldwork of the Papuan Past Project in the Arafundi region. The team was composed of three researchers (Matthew Leavesley, François-Xavier Ricaut, and Sébastien Plutniak), one student from the University of Papua New Guinea (Reubenson Gegeu Hou) and two filmmakers (Guy Beauché and Christophe Joly). To complete the data collected during the 2017 and 2018 fieldworks, the team went back to the village of Awim. During this visit the filmmakers shot a film documentary about the arrival, 50-70 thousand years ago, of the first settlers to the Sahul (the landmass composed of New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania).
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