
Karawari airfield (East Sepik): local people looking at C. Joly while he was shooting the aircraft arrival from the drone. (Photo F.-X. R./Post-processing S. P.) 
Awim village: the TV crew is filming the “singsing” dancers. (Photo F.-X. R./Post-processing S. P.) 
C. Joly controlling the drone along the Arafundi river, near Imboin village. (Photo F.-X. R./Post-processing S. P.) 
The flight of the drone arising enthusiasm and fascination at Awim village. (Photo H. F./Post-processing S. P.) 
M. Leavesley and the TV crew in action at Awim village. (Photo F.-X. R./Post-processing S. P.) 
Film director Guy Beauché in front of hand-stencils in Kundumbu rockshelter. (Photo F.-X. R./Post-processing S. P.) 
The drone flying in Awim's sky. (Photo H. F./Post-processing S. P.)
Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: stay at Awim, East Sepik

View from the MAF plane leaving the highlands behind and flying over the Arafundi river (East Sepik). (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
Cloudy view of the highland foothills in Awim territory. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
“Singsing” dancers in Awim village, with the Esamkanja cliff in the background. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
View from the other side of Endum river: village under the forest cover. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
View of Awim village with the Esamkanja cliff in background. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
F.-X. Ricaut, Reubenson Gegeu and Awim people during a survey in the bush. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
Part of the team during the surveys around Awim village, 2018. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
View of Awim village from one of the hills on the other side of the Endum river. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
Afternoon rain in Awim village. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
Another day of rain in Awim village. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
Domesticated pigs scavenging in Awim village. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
The team’s bivouac in Awim guesthouse. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
Some hand-stencils from Kundumbu rock shelter. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
One of the many painted rock shelters in the Awim territory. 
Awim people making bark paintings on the front of the new guest house. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.) 
Bark painting in Awim village. Each panel includes motif specific to each family. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
Village along the Arafundi river on the way to Imboin village. (Photo: F.-X. R./Post-processing: S. P.) 
Presentation of the project results to the Imboin village community. (Photo and post-processing: S. P.)
“Speleological knowledge and social structures in a rural community in Sepik, Papua New Guinea”: a presentation at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale

The 28 February 2020, Sébastien Plutniak was invited to give a presentation at the “Dynamiques relationnelles” seminar, organised by Olivier Allard and Isabelle Yaya MacKenzie at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale in Paris. His talk, entitled “Savoirs spéléologiques et structures sociales dans une communauté rurale du Sepik, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée” was an opportunity to have an in-depth discussion about the sociological aspects of the Papuan Past Project. The participants of this seminar are experts in kinship analysis, both from a general perspective and in the use of advanced computing methods applied to the analysis of kinship networks, such as the Puck software, which is also used in the Papuan Past Project.
Environmental Knowledge and Social Relations: Forest Caves in a Rural Community in Northern Papua New Guinea (presentation at the “Frognet” conference)

Sébastien Plutniak participated in the Frognet conference on social networks in Toulouse, France (27-28th May 2019). He presented the preliminary results of his analysis on the social distribution of knowledge related to the caves in Awim village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. His study complements the archaeological study of rock art in this region undertaken in the framework of the Papuan Past Project. This post presents the abstract of the talk in English and in French.

