The archaeology of Rossel Island, Massim, Papua New Guinea: Towards a prehistory of the Louisiade Archipelago
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The research presented in this thesis is focused on the archaeology of Rossel Island, the easternmost island in the Milne Bay Province, otherwise known culturally as the Massim. Rossel Island is one of the larger islands in the Louisiade Archipelago, and situated 400km from the mainland it is also one of the most isolated islands in the region. The people on the island today speak a Non-Austronesian language that is unrelated to the Austronesian languages spoken elsewhere in the Massim. The complexities of their cultural traditions are also regionally unparalleled and the people themselves are genetically distinct. Rossel Island is therefore seen as a unique outlier in the Massim region. ...
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