Tikopia, the Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier
Les fouilles de Tikopia ont ete entreprises pour obtenir une sequence culturelle prehistorique de l'ile et determiner les structures d'adaptation de l'homme aux changements de l'environnement. Une…
History of a Food Crop. (Book Reviews: The Sweet Potato and Oceania. An Essay in Ethnobotany)
- D. Yen
- History
- 1 June 1974
Chromosome variation in taro, Colocasia esculenta: implications for origin in the Pacific.
Further cytological study of Colocasia taro in the Pacific utilizing karyotypic data has produced a hypothesis for two separate lineages of the plant within contemporary populations. This provides…
THE ORIGINS OF OCEANIC AGRICULTURE1
- D. Yen
- History
- 1 April 1973
The development of Sahul agriculture with Australia as bystander
- D. Yen
- HistoryAntiquity
- 1 September 1995
The distribution of food-plants—both potential and actually exploited — reflects the natural history of contact across the seas and through the region, often long before Pleistocene times. The later…
The New Zealand Kumara or sweet potato
- D. Yen
- BiologyEconomic Botany
- 2008
The varieties of kumara (sweet potato,Ipomoea batatas (Linn.) Poir.) being grown by the Maoris of the North Island of New Zealand are described and classed as Maori (pre-European) or European…
A community of culture : the people and prehistory of the Pacific
- M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, Ryhs Jones, Alan Thorne, Ann Andrews
- History
- 1993
THE SWEET POTATO IN THE PACIFIC: THE PROPAGATION OF THE PLANT IN RELATION TO ITS DISTRIBUTION
- D. Yen
- Sociology
- 1960
The humara or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is cultivated throughout the tropic zone and in much of the Northern and Southern temperate zones of the Pacific and the contiguous areas of…
Arboriculture in the subsistence of Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands
- D. Yen
- GeographyEconomic Botany
- 1 July 1974
In Oceania, the indigenous agricultural systems are founded on a basic assemblage of cultigens largely in common, with the dominating species varying from area to area. Barrau (6) has defined the…
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