For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few groups with blonde hair outside Europe. Melanesians are black island people in the ...

Washington Black’ is populated with a number of intriguing characters, many of whom seem to be in search of their own ...

Melanesia means “black islands” in Greek and consists of roughly 2,000 islands in South Pacific Ocean that extends from New Guinea, stretches to New Caledonia and includes the Arafura Sea.

THE two volumes of “The History of Melanesian Society,” by Dr. Rivers, represent two methods of the study of mankind, the ethnographical and the ethnological. The first volume is devoted to an ...

A major new report, Reviving Melanesia’s Ocean Economy: The Case for Action, launched today, has revealed that the ocean is a much larger part of Melanesia’s* economy and future prosperity than ...

"Island Peoples of the Western Pacific, Micronesia and Melanesia" is the title of another volume in the series of War Background Studies published by the Smithsonian Institution. It is compiled by ...

Melanesia extends from the western Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and covers Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It has thousands of kilometres of ...

Many people have DNA inside them that they inherited from extinct hominins like the Neanderthals – and now we know that in some cases it isn’t just tiny snippets but long stretches.

May marks Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates the histories of Americans hailing from across the Asian continent and from the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and ...

But to the Sea Women of Melanesia, UNEP Champions of the Earth for Inspiration and Action, they are tools of change. Read more. To most people, fins, masks, and wetsuits are recreational gear.