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<b><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Golson Lecture 2020: Matthew Spriggs</span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79">Has the question of the origins of Pacific peoples now been solved?</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79">New results from ancient DNA, archaeology and linguistics</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Matthew Spriggs</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">CBAP, The Australian National University, Canberra and Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt; background:white">With two major ancient DNA (aDNA) papers on Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Tonga published in 2018—and more to follow, as well as related studies
of aDNA from Southeast Asia—there is a real pattern emerging of ancient genomic variation across the Pacific Islands.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt; background:white"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt">Meanwhile, Bill Wilson at the University of Hawaii Hilo has published radical new ideas about the settlement of Eastern Polynesia based on linguistic analysis.
Archaeological dates for the settlement of the Pacific, particularly Eastern Polynesia, remain controversial but again there are signs that the true ages of settlement are becoming clearer.<span style="background:white"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt">It certainly seems that a lasting synthesis about settlement and migration within the Pacific derived from the three disciplines is within our grasp.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt">But are we there yet?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt">Register to attend and participate in this fascinating discourse, h<span style="background:white">osted in conjunction with the </span></span><a href="https://www.canberraarchaeologicalsociety.com.au/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#7B5A3D; letter-spacing:.1pt; background:white">Canberra
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black; letter-spacing:.1pt">The annual Jack Golson Lecture is a public lecture series held to mark the contribution of Jack Golson to the discipline of archaeology and to ANU.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Wednesday 25 March 2020</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">6pm–8pm (Lecture will be followed by refreshments)</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Centre for China in the World Auditorium, Fellows Lane, Acton, ACT 2601</span></p>
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