Mr Jason Kariwiga

PhD Candidate

School of Social Science

j.kariwiga@uq.edu.au

PhD Project

PhD: Understanding prehistoric human mobility along the Papuan coast, Papua New Guinea, through isotope mapping

UQ Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship

Supervisors: Michael C. Westaway, Andrew Fairbairn & Matthew G. Leavesley

Qualifications

2018 Graduate Certificate of Education (Academic Practice), James Cook University

2014 Bachelor of Arts with Honours (B.A.H.), First Class, in Archaeology, University of Papua New Guinea

2012 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology & Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea

Experience

2015-present: Teaching Fellow, Anthropology, Sociology & Archaeology Strand, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea

Research Interests

Population mobility, cultural heritage, archaeology of Papua New Guinea, Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago & New Guinea, prehistoric trade networks

Publications

Book Chapters (2)

Journal Articles (11)

Conference Paper (1)

Book Chapters

Tsang, Roxanne and Kariwiga, Jason (2024). Personal reflections on working with Professor Glenn Summerhayes in Papua New Guinea. Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region. (pp. 29-32) Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/ta57.2024.03

Kariwiga, Jason, Wrobel, Gabriel and Westaway, Michael C. (2023). Papuan pasts: the origins of Papuan human remains collections in the world's museums, the issue of repatriation, and telling new stories with skeletal data. The Routledge handbook of museums, heritage, and death. (pp. 177-190) edited by Trish Biers and Katie Stringer Clary. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003195870-17

Journal Articles

André, Mathilde, Brucato, Nicolas, Hudjasov, Georgi, Pankratov, Vasili, Yermakovich, Danat, Montinaro, Francesco, Kreevan, Rita, Kariwiga, Jason, Muke, John, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-François, Meyer, Vincent, Evans, Nicholas, Cox, Murray P., Leavesley, Matthew, Dannemann, Michael, Org, Tõnis, Metspalu, Mait, Mondal, Mayukh and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2024). Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels. Nature Communications, 15 (1) 3352. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47735-1

Golitko, Mark, Power, Mitchell J, Kariwiga, Jason and Miamba, Kenneth (2024). Waking the “sleeping giant?” Mid- to Late-Holocene environment and fire history in the Aitape area, northern Papua New Guinea. The Holocene, 34 (12), 1852-1864. doi: 10.1177/09596836241274989

Yermakovich, Danat, André, Mathilde, Brucato, Nicolas, Kariwiga, Jason, Leavesley, Matthew, Pankratov, Vasili, Mondal, Mayukh, Ricaut, François-Xavier and Dannemann, Michael (2024). Denisovan admixture facilitated environmental adaptation in Papua New Guinean populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (26) e2405889121, 1-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2405889121

Kariwiga, Jason (2024). The value of New Guinea in regional and global archaeological enquiry. Australian Archaeology, 90 (1), 53-55. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2024.2317542

Kariwiga, Jason (2022). From Field to Museum – Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence By JimSpecht, ValAttenbrow, and JimAllen. Technical Report of the Australian Museum Online No. 34, 2021. ISSN: 1835‐4211. Pp. 258. Open Source Online. Archaeology in Oceania, 57 (2), 152-153. doi: 10.1002/arco.5262

Brucato, Nicolas, André, Mathilde, Tsang, Roxanne, Saag, Lauri, Kariwiga, Jason, Sesuki, Kylie, Beni, Teppsy, Pomat, William, Muke, John, Meyer, Vincent, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-François, Sudoyo, Herawati, Mondal, Mayukh, Pagani, Luca, Gallego Romero, Irene, Metspalu, Mait, Cox, Murray P, Leavesley, Matthew and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2021). Papua New Guinean genomes reveal the complex settlement of North Sahul. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38 (11), 5107-5121. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab238

André, Mathilde, Brucato, Nicolas, Plutniak, Sébastien, Kariwiga, Jason, Muke, John, Morez, Adeline, Leavesley, Matthew, Mondal, Mayukh and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2021). Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One, 16 (7) e0253921, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253921

Wasef, Sally, Wrobel, Gabriel, Wright, Nathan, Wright, Joanne L., Adams, Shaun, Kariwiga, Jason, Leavesley, Matthew, Collard, Mark and Westaway, Michael C. (2021). A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, Queensland. Quaternary International, 603, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.02.011

Tsang, Roxanne, Pleiber, William, Kariwiga, Jason, Plutniak, Sébastien, Forestier, Hubert, Taçon, Paul S. C., Ricaut, François-Xavier and Leavesley, Matthew G. (2020). Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: a case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 17 (3), 432-444. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1834472

Specht, Jim, Kariwiga, Jason and Ford, Anne (2018). Obsidian from the Jacquinot Bay area, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 9 (2), 35-43.

Golitko, Mark, Cochrane, Ethan E., Schechter, Esther M. and Kariwiga, Jason (2016). Archaeological and palaeoenviromental investigations near Aitape, northern Papua New Guinea, 2014. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7 (1), 139-150.

Conference Paper

Kariwiga, Jason and Westaway, Michael C. (2023). Utilising Strontium Isotope Mapping to Reconstruct Prehistoric Human Mobility: A New Prehistory of Motupore, an Island on the South Papuan Coast, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeological Association, Broadbeach, QLD Australia, 6-8 December 2023.