Agriculture and Sociopolitical Organization in New Guinea Highlands Prehistory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20149784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Golson, D S Gardner, Don Gardner |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 395-417 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.an.19.100190.002143 |
| OpenAlex | W2103236164 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 37 |
By the New Guinea Highlands we mean the high valleys within the central cordillera of the island between about 1300 and 2500 m, which are the home of relatively large populations living in deforested environments at densities of up to 300 per km2. Our focus is the better-known Papua New Guinea Highlands, which are continuous across Southern Highlands, Enga, Western Highlands, Simbu, and Eastern Highlands Provinces; but from time to time we look beyond the Indonesian border to Iriani Jaya, where, separated from the above by lightly peopled mountain country, are the Baliem and Western Dani and, beyond them, the Kapauku of the Paniai lakes. In a sense, agriculture has been involved in most discussion of sociocultural development in this region. At European contact, everywhere within the last 60 years, the Indo-Pacific staples of lowland New Guinea, such as Colocasia
Agriculture · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · Prehistory · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
The Austronesians
The other Western Highlands
Archaeozoological Records for the Highlands of New Guinea
Australasia and the Pacific
Boars, Barrows, and Breeders
Austronesian Historical Linguistics and Culture History
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
The Other Western Highlands
The State and Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea
Climates of change
Walking backwards into the future
Wetland Drainage and Agricultural Transformations in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Patterns of exchange and the social production of pigs in highland new guinea
Archaeology in the Pacific Islands
Human—environment interactions in Australia and New Guinea during the Holocene
A late-Holocene palaeoecological record from Ambra Crater in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and implications for agricultural history
The sustainability of Papua New Guinea agricultural systems
Identification of cultivated Pandanus and Colocasia in pollen records and the implications for the study of early agriculture in New Guinea
Constructing ‘Hunter-gatherers’, Constructing ‘Prehistory’
Australian Archaeologists In The Pacific, 1974-1994
Dating the evidence for agricultural change in the highlands of New Guinea
Culture Contact, Cultural Ecology, and Dani Warfare
A Colocasian revolution in the New Guinea Highlands? Insights from Phase 4 at Kuk
Obituary for Donald Stanley Gardner (1949–2025)
Palaeoenvironmental changes in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea
Jack Golson and the investigation of prehistoric agriculture in Highland New Guinea
Writing (pre)history
A renewed archaeological and archaeobotanical assessment of house sites at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
The emergence of an agricultural landscape in the highlands of New Guinea
Function and development in the East New Guinea Highlands
The Austronesians
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia
The Great 'Intensification Debate
Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea
Arboriculture and agriculture in coastal Papua New Guinea
The Languages of New Guinea
The evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea societies; A reappraisal
Prehistoric Exchange in Western Melanesia
The Emergence of Shell Valuable Exchange in the New Guinea Highlands
Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia
The Vines of Complexity
Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection
Intensification in the Pacific
Always been farmer-foragers? Hunting and gathering in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Life Without Pigs
Crossing the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the New Guinea Highlands
Intensification and Social Complexity in the Interior Lowlands of Papua New Guinea
The production of inequality
Kinship, Descent and Locality
Inequality in New Guinea highlands societies
The Rope of Moka
New Guinea
Horticultural Traditions of the Eastern New Guinea Highlands
Finance and Production
Etolo hunting performance and energetics
Records of Prehistoric Soil Erosion from Rock-Shelter Sites in Papua New Guinea
Frost and Drought through Time and Space, Part III
The Humic Brown Soils of the Papua New Guinea Highlands
The Appearance of Plant and Animal Domestication in New Guinea
Population Growth and Abandonment of Swamplands. A New Guinea Highlands Example
Dermatoglyphic inter-and intrapopulation variation among indigenous New Guinea groups
Digging out big‐men
Environmental history of Nombe rockshelter, Papua New Guinea Highlands
Population change and distribution in Papua New Guinea
Filiation and Affiliation
The Adaptive Significance of Systems of Ceremonial Exchange and Trade in the New Guinea Highlands
Hunters and Horticulturalists
It's his affair
Tairora Culture. Contingency and Pragmatism
The Dugum Dani
Highland Peoples of New Guinea
From Hunting to Horticulture in the New Guinea Highlands
Pigs, Fodder, and the Jones Effect in Postipomoean New Guinea
Population Density, Agricultural Intensity, Land Tenure, and Group Size in the New Guinea Highlands
Social Classes in Mount Hagen? The Early Evidence
The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
Repeng and the Salt-Makers
Beyond Patriliny in the New Guinea Highlands
Ways of Exchange
Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat
Despots and Directors in the New Guinea Highlands
We must follow the Fore
Trade and Sociability
Marriage Exchanges
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |