Breaking Down the Berlin Wall:

Gleave, Kieran

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“…Despite this plethora of approaches, frontier and borderland studies have developed mainly within the context of imperial, colonial and neo-colonial contexts (e.g. Bagaloni & Pedrotta 2018; Gleave et al 2020; Hingley 2018). Only a handful of archaeological studies have sought to probe the idea of frontiers, spheres and border zones in non-state settings (e.g.…”

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Frontier Archaeology: Excavating Huli Colonization of the Lower Tagali Valley, Papua New Guinea

Ash¹,

Denham²,

Ballard³

et al. 2022

CAJ

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Archaeological investigations have documented an ideological and occupied frontier in the Lower Tagali Valley along the southern margins of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Open-area excavations document two types of house structure associated with Huli occupation of the Lower Tagali Valley landscape, a women's house (wandia) and a lodge and ceremonial complex associated with a bachelor cult (ibagiyaanda). Excavation revealed the complete floor plan of the women's house site and multiple structural elements of the ceremonial complex. Radiocarbon dating provides a chronology for both sites that accords with genealogical histories for the colonization of this landscape by Huli during the early nineteenth century, or approximately eight generations ago. These archaeological findings are consistent with the strategies still employed today by Huli in the initial ideological incorporation of new territory and anchoring of expansionary claims through subsequent settlement and cultivation.

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confidence: 99%