Ten thousand years of cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

Ten thousand years of cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

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Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: ANU Press (-)
Otros Autores: Golson, J. (Jack), approximately 1926-, editor (editor), Denham, Tim, editor, Hughes, Philip, editor, Muke, John D., editor, Swadling, Pamela, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press 2017.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Terra australis ; 46.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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  • An Introduction to the Investigations at Kuk Swamp / Jack Golson
  • Part One: Agriculture in a World, Regional and Local Setting. Early Agriculture in World Perspective / Peter Bellwood
  • Domesticatory Relationships in the New Guinea Highlands / Tim Denham
  • Environment and Food Production in Papua New Guinea / R. Michael Bourke
  • The Wetland Field Systems of the New Guinea Highlands / Chris Ballard
  • Part Two: Kuk Swamp and its Store of Evidence. Kuk Swamp / Philip Hughes, Tim Denham and Jack Golson
  • Volcanic Ash at Kuk / Russell Blong, Thomas Wagner and Jack Golson
  • Tibito Tephra, Taim Tudak and the Impact of Thin Tephra Falls / Russell Blong
  • Palaeoecology / Simon G. Haberle, Carol Lentfer and Tim Denham
  • The Archaeobotany of Kuk / Carol Lentfer and Tim Denham
  • Part Three: People in the Swamp and on its Margins. Phase 1: The Case for 10,000-Year-Old Agriculture at Kuk / Tim Denham, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Phase 2: Mounded Cultivation During the Mid Holocene / Tim Denham, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Phase 3: The Emergence of Ditches / Tim Denham, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Phase 4: Major Disposal Channels, Slot-Like Ditches and Grid-Patterned Fields / Tim Bayliss-Smith, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Phase 5: Retreating Forests, Flat-Bottomed Ditches and Raised Fields / Tim Bayliss-Smith, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Phase 6: Impact of the Sweet Potato on Swamp Landuse, Pig Rearing and Exchange Relations / Tim Bayliss-Smith, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Houses in and out of the Swamp / Jack Golson
  • Part Four: Artefacts of Wood and Stone. The Kuk Artefacts, an Introduction / Jack Golson
  • Artefacts of Wood / Jack Golson
  • Kuk Stone Artefacts: Technology, Usewear and Residues / Richard Fullagar with Jack Golson
  • Stone Sources and Petrology of Kuk Swamp Artefacts / Marjorie Sullivan, John Burton, David Ellis, Jack Golson and Philip Hughes
  • Part Five: The Traditional Owners. Hagen Settlement Histories: Dispersals and Consolidations / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
  • Kuk Phase 7, 1969-1990, the Kuk Research Station: A Colonial Interlude / Paul Gorecki
  • Kuk 1991 to 1998, the Station Abandoned and the Land Resumed: Archaeological Implications / Jack Golson and John Muke
  • Kuk Phase 8: Heritage Issues to 2008 / John Muke and Tim Denham.

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