A PLACE WITH THE LEAST EXPLORED ANIMAL LIFE IS PAPUA NEW GUINEA

THEIR CULTURE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS MANLY SIDE AND ABOUT 1000 DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS SIDE AND ABOUT 1000 DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS EXISTS IN PAPUA/  MOST HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE IN WHICH THEY TAKE PRIDE.  MANY DIFFERENT STYLES OF CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS  HAVE EMERGED .  EACH GROUP HAS CREATED ITS OWN EXPRESSIVE ITS OWN EXPRESSIVE FORMS ART ART DANCE, WEAPONS, COSTUMES, SINGING AND MUSIC AND OTHER FORESTS.

THIS COUNTRY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEAST EXPLORED.  MANY SPECIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE THOUGHT TO EXIST IN THE INTERIOR OF OF PAPUA.  A MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION STILL LIVE IN TRADITIONAL SUBSISTENCE BASED AGRICULTURE.  THE COUNTRY WANTS THE TRADITIONAL VILLAGES TO REMAIN AS VIABLE AS PAPUA NEW GUINEA.  MANY LIVE IN POPVERTY.  AFTER BEING RULED  BY 3 EXTERNAL POWERS SINCE 1884 NEW GUINEA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1975.

HUMAN REMAINS DATE TO ABOUT 50,000 B.C.  THEY MIGRATED FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA.  PEOPLE ORIGINATED IN AFRICA 50,000 TO 70,000 YEARS AGO.

 BY 7000 B.C. AGRICULTURE WAS DEVEPED INDEPENDANTLY.  IT IS THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE INDEPENDANTLY DOMESTICATED  PLANTS.  BY 500 B.C. THESE PEOPLE OF AUSTRONESIAN CAME TO THIS REGION.  THEY INTRODUCED POTTERY, PIGS, AND FISHING TECHNIQUES.  DURING 18TH CENTURY THE SWEET POTATOE WAS TAKEN TO NEW GUINEA AND WAS INTRODUCED TO THE MALEZOAS BY TRADERS. SWEET POTATOES TRANSFORMED AGRICULTURAL  AS IT BECAME  A STAPLE.   AND GAVE RISE TO A SINGULAR INCREASE INCREASE  IN POPULAATIONS.

THE NEW GUINEA USED TO PRACTICE HEAD HUNTING AND CANNIBALISM.  BUT IT IS NOT PRACTICED NOW.  A MISSIONARY FOUND 10,000 SKULLS IN AN ISLAND'S LONG HOUSE IN 1900!

LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT EUROPEANS HERE ON THE ISLAND UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY.  ALTHOUGH THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS DISCOVERED NEW  GUINEA IN THE 16TH CENTURY.  5000 YEARS AGO THE FOLKS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA COLLECTED THE BIRD OF PARADISE.  THE SOUTH HALF OF OF PAPUA WAS COLONIZED BY ENGLAND IN 1904.  IN 1905 AUSTRALIA TOOK ON ITS ADMINISTRATION.

DURING WWII MANY JAPANESE, AUSTRALIAN AND U.S. SOLDIERS DIED DURING THE CAMPAIGN.  BY 1975 PAPUA PAPUA WAS OPEN TO THE UNITED NATIONS - A PEACEFUL INDEPENDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA IN 1978.  ANOTHER UPRISING CLAIMED 20,000 IN 1978 CLAIMED 2000 LIVES IN 1997.

ANTICHINESE CHINESE WERE RIOTING INVOLVING 1000'S OF PEOPLE IN 2009.
NEW GUINEAS, HEAD OF STATE IS QUEEN ELIZABETH II.  THIS COUNTRY HAS DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY WITH EXTREMELY RUGGED MOUNTAINS.  A SPINE OF MOUNTAINS RUNS THE LENGTH OF NEW GUINEA.  THEY HAVE DENSE RAIN FORESTS.  THEIR HIGHEST PEAK 4500' ABOVE SEA LEVEL.  THEY HAVE ACTIVE VOLCANOES.  MANY BIRD SPECIES FOUND IN AUSTRALIA.  ONE NOTABLE FEATURE IS COMMON FOR FOR THE TWO LAND MASSES IS THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF MAMMALS, KANGAROOS AND POSSOMS.

MANY OF THE ISLANDS WITHIN PAPUA TERRITORY INCLUDING VARIOUS ISLANDS WERE NEVER LINKED TO NEW GUINEA.  ONLY 3% OF THE LAND OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS IN THE PRIVATE HANDS.  IT IS HELD UNDER A 99 YEAR LEASE.STATE LEASE.

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF ETHNIC GROUPS INDIGENOUS TO NEW GUINEA.  MOST ARE KNOWN TO NEW GUINEA.  MOST ARE KNOWN AS PAPUANS WHOSE ANCESTORS ARRIVED IN NEW GUINEA
10,000 YEARS AGO.  MANY TRIBES STILL HAVE ONLY MARGINAL CONTACT.

IN 1975 THERE WERE 40,000 AUSTRALIAN AND CHINESE FOLKS IN PAPUA.  PAPUA HAVE GREATER DENSITY OF LANGUAGE THAN ANY OTHER ON EARTH EXCEPT VANIATU.

THEY CATCH MALARIA HERE.  THE COURTS AGREE TO HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND BELIEVE .  AND 96%  PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE DEFINE  THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THEY ALSO HAVE GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE MUSLIMS AND NON CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS THAT ARE ACTIVE.  THEY MAKE AND CREATE MONEY WITH EXPRESSIVE FORMS OF ART , DANCE WEAPONS, COSTUMES.  MOST REMOTE VILLAGES GROW SOME CROPS SUCH AS YAMS, AND OTHER ROOT CROPS.  THEY HUNT FISH.  THEY LIKE TO CARVE  AND PAINT WOODEN FORMS AND MASKS.  THEY ARE FAMOUS FOR STORYTELLING.  THEY MAKE WOODEN CANOES.    

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