ISBN:
9781760461157
,
1760461164
,
1760461156
,
9781760461164
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 512 pages)
Series Statement:
Terra australis 46
Parallel Title:
Print version Ten thousand years of cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Keywords:
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
;
Anthropology
;
Agriculture, Prehistoric
;
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
;
Anthropology
;
Agriculture, Prehistoric
;
Papua New Guinea
;
Papua New Guinea
;
Agriculture, Prehistoric
;
Anthropology
;
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
;
NATURE ; Ecosystems & Habitats ; Mountains
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-509)
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