38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past
- Resource Type
- Reference
- Authors
- Bryant Allen, author
- Source
- The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration.
- Subject
- indigenous peoples
Holocene
Oceania, New Guinea
Demographic History
Migration, Holocene
Asia
Oceania
Indigenous People
- Language
- English
The author discusses a number of recent migrations in Papua New Guinea, recorded in ethnographic and linguistic data. They offer interesting case studies of how groups of different ethnolinguistic background can intermix, and how small numbers of migrants can grow into large numbers of settlers, if and when they reach fertile terrain.