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The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
Multiple terms have been proposed to describe the native inhabitants of Eastern Indonesia.“Papuans” (Indonesian: Orang Papua) is the preferred term (especially in Indonesian and English) for inhabitans of New Guinea, since it is based on actual native nomenclature used by as recorded in several ancient native evidences.
The Dani (also spelled Ndani) are an ethnic group from the Central Highlands of Western New Guinea in Baliem Valley, Highland Papua, Indonesia.Around 100,000 people live in the Baliem Valley, consisting of representatives of the Dani tribes in the lower and upper parts of the valley each 20,000 and 50,000 in the middle part (with a total of 90,000 people).
The origin of Melanesians is generally associated with the first settlement of Australasia by a lineage dubbed 'Australasians' or 'Australo-Papuans' during the Initial Upper Paleolithic, which is "ascribed to a population movement with uniform genetic features and material culture" (Ancient East Eurasians), and sharing deep ancestry with modern East Asian peoples and other Asia-Pacific groups.
Papuans may refer to: Indonesian Papuans – the Native Indonesians of Papua-origin; Papua New Guineans – the nationals of Papua New Guinea;
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
Prime Minister James Marape has declared a state of emergency in Papua New Guinea amid an outbreak of rioting and looting, as depicted here in the country's capital, Port Moresby, on Jan. 10, 2024.
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