new guinea

Over the last few weeks, I've been reading into the history of New Guinea. There's a lot of interesting possibilities and scenarios, and I've decided to start working towards writing a proper timeline. Given the immense scale of such a project, I've decided to write an outline first while I...

Our story begins with a single man. His name, who he was, this is forgotten to history. Regardless of who he was or what his name was, he was a man who‘s influence on history would be great. One day, when wandering away into the swamp, he came across some strange plants. He took them back to...

Since agriculture was developed independently fairly early in New Guinea, could it have had a cradle of civilization?

As it says in the title, why didn't New Guinea develop an advanced civilisation like those in Eurasia and the Americas? It was among the first places on earth to develop agriculture, it's relatively large, it has an OK crop package and it's pretty fertile.

There is not so much to write here, but what if the dutch decides to keep those territories, and later grant them statehood, including voting rights and regional governments?

Here, here and here is information about BEIC trading settlement of Fort Coronation, modern West Papua. I have three options for its alternate history: a) If New Albion succeeded, but its area was ultimately confined to regions 2 and northern half of the region 6 (leaving Steenkool in its...

Are there any circumstances in which Japan could be awarded German New Guinea as part of the peace settlement of WWI? Or would Britain consider this too much of a potential threat to Australia/New Zealand? Would a particular alternate course of WWI make this outcome more likely?

Land Below the Sunset #1- Crucible of Civilization The island nation of Papua [1], the world's most populous island, the second largest island on Earth (after Greenland) and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere, has a long history. Archeological and genetic evidence...

The challenge, with any POD since the establishment of the first sedentary human agricultural settlements there (i.r.o. 7000 BCE in the Wahgi Valley, more than 1000 years before the establishment of comparable agricultural settlements on Jomon-era Honshu), is to come up with a plausible...

New Guinea is the big island above Australia which is split between Papua New Guinea in the east and Indonesia in the west. It's quite strange that native Papuans own one half of the island and "foreign" Indonesians own the other half, you'd think it would either be Indonesians owning all of it...