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Map displaying Near and Remote Oceania.
Near Oceania is the part of Oceania that features greater biodiversity, due to the islands and atolls being closer to each other. The distinction of Near and Remote Oceania was first suggested by Pawley & Green (1973)[1] and was further elaborated on in Green (1991).[2] The distinction is based on geology, flora and fauna. Near Oceania was also settled by humans at an earlier time than Remote Oceania was. Near Oceania includes the island of New Guinea, Solomon Islands(excluding Temotu) and the Bismarck Archipelago. Sometimes Australia is also included in Near Oceania.
^Pawley, Andrew & Roger Green. 1973. Dating the Dispersal of the Oceanic Languages. Oceanic Linguistics 12(1/2). 1–67.
^Green, Roger. 1991. Near and Remote Oceania: Disestablishing "Melanesia" in Culture History. In A Pawley (ed.), Man and a Half: Essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobotany in honour of Ralph Bulmer, 491–502. The Polynesian Society.
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Latin America and Oceania; the mostly uninhabited oceanic Pacific islands near Latin America have been considered by some as part of Oceania, both historically...
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is a yam species native to Island Southeast Asia and introduced to NearOceania and East Africa by early Austronesian voyagers. It is grown for their...
during prehistoric times, reaching Micronesia at 3,500 to 3,000 BP, NearOceania at 3,400 to 3,000 BP; South India and Sri Lanka by 3,500 BP; Mainland...
Mussay to Samoa.: 19 Lapita pottery has been found in NearOceania as well as Remote Oceania, as far west as the Bismarck Archipelago, as far east as...
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the Malay Archipelago, and as ending near the Americas. In the 19th century, many geographers divided up Oceania into mostly racially-based subdivisions;...
first inhabited by humans — from 70,000 years ago (NearOceania) to 3,000 years ago (Remote Oceania). Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants...
technologies were related to the later steps of settlement into Near and Remote Oceania. Starting at around 2200 BCE, Austronesians sailed southwards to...
Taiwan c. 3000 BC and propagated through Island Southeast Asia, reaching NearOceania c. 1500 BC, Hawaii c. 900 AD, and New Zealand c. 1200 AD. The maritime...
to subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Island Southeast Asia, NearOceania, and northeastern and central Australia. Domestication of citrus species...
or compact shrub. The plant is native to Maritime Southeast Asia and NearOceania, from the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands...
region, but not a Near East. Their original Middle East consumed the Near East as far as the Red Sea, ceded India to the Asia and Oceania region, and went...
Tuvalu Wallis and Futuna Alo Sigave Uvea by human geography: NearOceania Remote Oceania by economics: Pacific Community Pacific Islands Forum Pacific...
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during prehistoric times, reaching Micronesia at 3,500 to 3,000 BP, NearOceania at 3,400 to 3,000 BP; South India and Sri Lanka by 3,500 BP; Mainland...
are inhabited, they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland, and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania. The demographic table...
megafauna (including the last terror birds) extinction. Humans expand into NearOceania and the Americas. 0.129 Chibanian Mid-Pleistocene Transition occurs,...
(retrieved 18/9/2017) Allaby, Robin (2007). "Origins of Plant Exploitation in NearOceania: A Review". In Friedlaender, Jonathan S. (ed.). Genes, Language, & Culture...
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast...
"The people of Sahul and nearOceania". In Cochrane, Ethan E.; Hunt, Terry L. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania. New York: Oxford University...
"The Peopling of Sahul and NearOceania". In Cochrane, Ethan E; Hunt, Terry L. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania. New York, NY: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-992507-0...
classified as being the westernmost areas of Oceania by the World Factbook, and are also considered part of Oceania by the United Nations. They are within the...
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