Exploring Relationships between Material Culture and Language, Propinquity, Population, Subsistence and Environment in the Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Regions

该项目将探索两个相邻地区--塞皮克上游和新几内亚中部高地--的物质文化、语言、地理位置、人口规模和密度、生存系统和环境特征之间的关系。将评估贸易、通婚、移民、仪式和战争在影响变量之间关系方面的作用。这是第一个如此详细地研究太平洋上两个不同区域的天体(8000多个)的项目。它将阐明语言相对于其他变量在确定这些地区生产的物品的可识别性方面的作用，并具有实际的文化遗产成果。

This project will explore relationships between material culture, language, geographical proximity, population size and density, subsistence systems, and environmental characteristics in two adjacent regions - the upper Sepik and the highlands of central New Guinea. The role of trade, inter-marriage, migration, ritual and warfare in affecting relationships among the variables will be assessed. This is the first project to examine so many objects (8000+) in such detail for two contrasting regions in the Pacific. It will clarify the role of language vis-a-vis other variables in determining the identifiability of objects produced in those regions and has practical cultural heritage outcomes.