Numbers -Austronesian

[Richard Parker]

I have posted to the web two number systems maps of the Papua New Guinea area.
The first shows the distribution of parts of the numbering system:
http://coconutstudio.com/Papua%20New%20Guinea%20x%20shaded%205.jpg
 
The second (apologies to Andrew Pawley and Malcolm Ross for plagiarising their maps and terms) shows language groups, and the remarkable correspondence between 'Meso-Melanesian' and 'advanced numbers' against the 'North New Guinea Cluster' that has a lot of 'early experiments'. 
http://coconutstudio.com/Papua%20New%20Guinea%20languagefinal%20maybe.jpg
 
I hope that these two maps will support my hypothesis that Austronesian languages were long entrenched in Near Oceania, before a later intrusion (by Meso-Melanesians - Western Malayo-Polynesian speakers).
 
The 'seam-line' in New Britain does not seem to represent a point of origin for the reconstructed proto-Oceanic language, thereafter splitting between two 
very different groups, but more, a front-line for a later intrusion.
 
regards
Richard 
PS There will be a lot of minor errors in these maps - please advise if you find some.
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