Word: guinea
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Randolph has been working with graphics indiffering capacities for a long time. Aftergraduating from Harvard, she travelled to Papua,New Guinea on a Radcliffe fellowship to documentindigenous two-dimensional design...
Randolph chose Papua, New Guinea because thediversity of language, culture, and, mostimportantly for Randolph, design, is among thehighest in the world. The island is populated bymany small groups who have historically beengeographically isolated from each other and theoutside world. Randolph visited the communities tostudy their two-dimensional designs...
...Randolph says, the work level became"manic." And although her company was lucrative,the hotel brochures she produced were "marketdriven, and not very creative." She is quick topraise the benefits of corporate design, but"having studied how design can interact withculture in Papua, New Guinea," says Randolph, "Iwas quickly disillusioned with the corporateworld...
...nearby islands of the South Pacific, by contrast, enterprising natives of the New Guinea highlands were clearing forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion of interisland trade. The dominant traders, peoples known to archaeologists as the Lapita, who lived in the Bismarck archipelago, did a booming commerce in food, obsidian, seashells and elaborately stamped pottery from island to island, eventually venturing as far away as Fiji and Tonga...
Society was also growing more complex in Mexico and Central America, but it was at its most elaborate in parts of South America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably...