Udayana University hosted the OCSEAN Third International Conference in July 2025. As a follow up to this meeting, I Made Agus Julianto from Udayana University invited Toulouse secondee Sébastien Plutniak to continue this discussion by giving a lecture on open science in archaeology. On Tuesday 10 November, Sébastien presented on “Open-source and Free Software Tools for Archaeology: a State of the Art and a Focus on the archeoViz Ecosystem” to an audience of 110 bachelor stu

Many local teams have worked hard to produce print materials that are useful and needed for the communities. Here is a short summary of them. Loloam Malay Bed-time stories and orthography guide by Udanaya University team: I Gusti Ayu Gde Sosiowati, Ni Luh Nyoman Seri Malini, Novita Mulyana,  Putu Wahyu Widiatmika Book was compiled for the Loloan community with the newly settled orthography. During the initial work in the Lolan community, it became evident there was confusion

During the course of the project, there are several audio-visual materials that have been produced. SPEAKING THE SACRED The collaboration between Udayana University and University of Tartu researchers and creative teams has led to the documentary about Saa ritual and in the Bulian village. The film documents Saa, the meanings of it locally, and personal insights of the the team of the Bulian project who have been in close engagement with the local community. Directed and Fi

Text by Marie Descottes, University of Toulouse In the OCSEAN projects theme to better understand the human demographic and cultural processes in the Oceania I spend two months (June to August 2025) in Australia, hosted by Tristen Jones at the University of Sydney (USYD). This secondment was a major opportunity to advance my doctoral research of rock art. As was part of the knowledge exchange I gave two presentations on my thesis work (fig.1) at two universities: Australian

Text by: Monika Karmin, Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood   The visiting researchers from University of Udayana (UNUD), Davao Medical School Foundation Incorporation (DMSFI) and University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) arrived in Bristol in summer 2025. They came to an intensive ‘Data Camp’ to first learn quantitative methods, then apply these to OCSEAN linguistic dataset while in Bristol and then take the skills back home to apply in their research projects.   The linguistic datas

Open data in  Archaeology In its quest at integrating linguistics, genetics, and archaeological observation in a single analytical framework, the OCSEAN project is facing a major challenge: the non-standardized, poorly available, and sparse nature of archaeological data.  This problem is not new. All along the development of archaeology as a scientific discipline, multiple calls were stated in favour of openly sharing structured and reusable data: from, among many others, Jea

Papuan Past Project With the aim to better understand human movements between New Guinea Lowlands and Highlands, members of the Papuan...

One of the major aims of the OCSEAN project is the integration of data generated from linguistical, bioanthropological, and...

OCSEAN consortium cordially invites our partners to share the results from their projects and discuss with other researchers in the...

Between July 20 and August 2, 2024, a team from the University of the South Pacific and The Fiji Museum took part in archaeological research on Vanua Levu (Fiji) in the Provinces of Bua and Macuata. The project is a collaboration funded by the University of the South Pacific Research Office and European Commission via OCSEAN. The project was designed to address questions related to two shell midden deposits and to train local students in archaeological methods during the fiel

OCSEAN Summer School participants from Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea gathered to share their culture and traditions....

OCSEAN is very glad to once again organize a conference to have an update on running projects, invite guests. Conference is mainly...

To learn about a small linguistically and culturally distinct group, OCSEAN Summer School participants went to a fieldtrip to Setomaa....

The major effort of OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 is to bring together again many people who started their journey in Uppsala 2022...

Introduction to interdisciplinary research  of human past with integration of archaeology , genetics , (and linguistics ) in the study of...

The week of Ethnobotany took participants on an intensive journey of inquiry about human's relation to plants, how they are used and how...

Folkloristics module was part of the Heritage Studies during OCSEAN Summer School. Lead by Associate Professor Merili Metsvahi from the...

OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 has brought together 48 participants from the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Summer School...

The Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigation (OCSEAN) project held the third linguistic workshop on 2023 in Davao City, the Philippines in...

From June 5, 2024, to June 12, 2024, an intensive fieldwork mission was conducted in the villages of Bunggeta in Mataru Utara, Kilakawada in Mataru Timur, Pelman, and Mobyetang in Kelaisi. This research was led by Adolfina M.S. Moybeka, with the dedicated assistance of Daniel S. Lanma and Benediktus Delpada. The team operated under the expert supervision of George Saad and the late Dra. June Jacob. The primary focus of this fieldwork was twofold: the collection of comprehensi