| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) |
| Series |
UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications ; 68 |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 68.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I Rethinking early agriculture; 1 Early agriculture in the highlands: an unexpected story; Why is early agriculture in New Guinea contentious?; Shifting perspective: a focus on practices; 2 Defining early agriculture in New Guinea; A continuum of human-environment interactions; Low-level food production and the 'middle ground'; Social dependence and environmental transformation; The conditions of growth: a post-processual turn?; Towards a contingent conception of early agriculture |
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Articulating space and placeDomains, transformative mechanisms and archaeological expression; Temporalities of associated phenomena; Context, specificity and visibility; Clarification of terminology; Part II Places, practices and plants; 3 The importance of place; Ages of discovery; Archaeological frames of reference; An introduction to highland environments; 4 Cultivation practices in the highlands; A vegetative disposition; Diversity of plant exploitation in New Guinea; Practices of cultivation; Plot clearance; Ground preparation and earthworks; Planting, weeding and harvesting |
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Fallowing and nutrient cyclingTypes of plot; Tools of cultivation; Ambiguity of past practices: questions of archaeological visibility; Lower-intensity practices; Higher-intensity practices; A practice-based method for the investigation of early agriculture; A chronology of constituent practices; Bundling practices in time and place; Transposing plants and practices; Transformation through time; 5 The plants of highland cultivation; Domesticatory relationships, degrees of domestication and cultivation mosaics; Loss of sex in vegetatively propagated plants |
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Hypothetical domestication scenarios for the highlandsCrop plants in the highlands; Staple crops; Vegetables; Nut and fruit trees; Archaeobotanical visibility of vegetative domestication and cultivation; Part III Practices in the past; 6 Exploiting diversity in the Pleistocene; To Sahul; Archaeological traces; Palaeoecological inference; Not just trees and tubers . . .; Pandanus species in the highlands; More than hunting and the seasonal exploitation of Pandanus; Rethinking occupation of the interior during the Pleistocene; Common practices in diverse contexts |
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7 Ambiguities of practice during the early HoloceneMultidisciplinary evidence at Kuk, c. 10,000 years ago; A gap, patch or plot on the wetland margin?; People's use of plants; Natural ranges and loci of plant domestication; Transitional steps to cultivation; A novel form of plant exploitation; 8 The emergence of shifting cultivation; What are we looking for?; Is there a neolithic signature?; Ground stone axe-adzes; Tanged blades; Stone mortars, pestles and figurines; Palaeoecology, geomorphology and landscape change; From patch to plot: the transition to cultivation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- New Guinea -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Agriculture.
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New Guinea.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018010497 |
| ISBN |
9781351115292 |
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1351115294 |
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9781351115285 |
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1351115286 |
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9781351115308 |
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1351115308 |
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