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Women loading pots on a Motu lakatoi trading vessel, in this photograph published in 1887. J. W. Lindt

Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea trade

Robert Skelly, Monash University; Barbara Etschmann, Monash University; Chris Urwin, Monash University; Joël Brugger, Monash University, and Teppsy Beni, University of Southern Queensland

Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.

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