Close Oceania
The close Oceania is a linguistic concept proposed by Andrew Pawley. This subdivision is opposed to the traditional subdivision Oceania, without scientific but always widespread base, due to Jules Dumont d' Urville.
It includes/understands the Australia, the New Guinea and the archipelagoes surrounding like the islands of Admiralty as well as the the Solomon Islands. In fact islands are close from/to each other and which is opposed to those of the distant Oceania, as well in the field of botany, of the zoology as from the cultural and human point of view.
It corresponds to the plate Sahul, in English Sahul Shelf , separated from the remainder of Asia by the Wallacea and the Wallace line.
It was occupied by three principal waves of the species Homo sapiens :
- Indigenous ;
- the Papou S;
- and the Austronésien S, last arriveds and which, at the beginning of the islands of Admiralty, then starting from the the Solomon Islands, ended up occupying the distant Oceania.
See too
- Australasia
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