papua

Cassowaries are reputed to be one of the most dangerous birds in the world due to their sharp talons which can kill a person with just a kick. It might seem quite unlikely that such a bird could be domesticated. However, research suggests that ancient Papuans had been nurturing cassowary chicks...

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...

Indonesia's foolish actions in Timor escalated into a full war between them, the Timorese (and later Papuan) rebels that eventually ended up involving Australia. Is there any way this could've been avoided?

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.

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...

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...

Keep Indonesia from forming, preferably with a method other than "Sukarno isn't born."

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...