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Like most kids in elementary school, I was thrilled by National Geographic's articles on Papua New Guinea. PNG was virtually the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, truly the last 'unknown'. The pictures were so wild, stimulating my imagination like no other place pictured in this wonderful magazine.
As school years passed by, there was always a new article about PNG every so often, but never was this intriguing island, somewhere in the South Pacific, ever discussed in the classroom. Sadly, the only information available was between the covers of National Geographic, picturing this amazing country, as yet, barely touched by modern man.
PNG's history prior to arrival of European colonists is far from being pieced together. Its extremely fragmented indigenous cultures left no written records and the marks they left on the landscape have nearly been completely erased, swallowed by PNG's tropical environment.
