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Origins of Agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea

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Investigations at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea show that agriculture arose independently in New Guinea by at least 6950 to 6440 calibrated years before the present, and Taro was utilized in the early Holocene.
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Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication

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The complex geodomestication pathways that generated the vast range of banana cultivars (cvs) are clarified and several key stages of domestication for different cv groups are elucidated.
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Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

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It is argued that although recent progress has been impressive, the next decade will yield even more substantial insights not only into how domestication took place, but also when and where it did, and where and why it did not.
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Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

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This work focuses on four major phases that witnessed broad anthropogenic alterations to biodiversity—the Late Pleistocene global human expansion, the Neolithic spread of agriculture, the era of island colonization, and the emergence of early urbanized societies and commercial networks.
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Ancient voyaging and Polynesian origins.

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Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record

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A unique synthesis of evidence is provided, including quantitative evidence on the trajectory and rate of domestication in seed crops and patterns in the development of tropical vegetatively propagated crops, for the New World and Old World tropics.
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Early and mid Holocene tool-use and processing of taro (Colocasia esculenta), yam (Dioscorea sp.) and other plants at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

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Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia

  • T. Denham
  • Environmental Science
    Current Anthropology
  • 25 May 2011
A multidimensional conceptual framework is advanced that characterizes early agriculture as a subset of human-environment interactions. Three cross-articulating dimensions of human-environment…
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Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia

Current portrayals of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) over the past 5,000 years are dominated by discussion of the Austronesian “farming/language dispersal,” with associated linguistic replacement,…
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The palaeoenvironments of Kuk Swamp from the beginnings of agriculture in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

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