The roots of agriculture and arboriculture in New Guinea
Looking beyond Austronesian expansion, Neolithic packages and indigenous origins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Denham (0000-0002-8164-2990, Flinders University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 610-620 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0043824042000303791 |
| OpenAlex | W1999066613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 20 |
Agriculture and arboriculture in New Guinea, like many other aspects of material culture, are often characterized as either introduced by Austronesian language-speakers in the mid-Holocene or as earlier and independent developments by pre-existing Papuan language-speakers. I raise concerns with both interpretative tendencies, which have often yielded superficial regional histories that provide one-dimensional impressions of people, practices and places in the past. Drawing on my own archaeological research into early agriculture and arboriculture, I illustrate alternative possibilities for historical interpretation that do not over-emphasize the pre-Lapita isolation of New Guinea, but instead focus on regional interactions and mutual transformations of practice before, during and after the presumed arrival of Austronesian language-speakers in the region
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Arboriculture · Archaeology · Austronesian languages · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Indigenous culture · Linguistics · New guinea · Sociology · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
The Power of Paradigms
Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
Lapita Archaeology in the Southwest Pacific
Clarifying ambiguity
Ancient woodlands of Polynesia
Borrowed Color and Flora/Fauna Terminology in Northwest New Guinea
Conservation and Restoration of a Cultural Forest Landscape
Palaeoecological studies at four archaeological sites in the New Guinea Highlands document local vegetation histories and plant use from c. 18,000 cal BP to the recent past
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Chapter 3
Fluctuating local mobility from the end of the Pleistocene to the end of the Holocene on the north coast of New Guinea
Was there an Austroasiatic Presence in Island Southeast Asia prior to the Austronesian Expansion
Shifting cultivators in South Asia
Walking backwards into the future
Affluent foragers in the subtropical forest
Deconstructing the Lapita Cultural Complex in the Bismarck Archipelago
Food Traditions and Landscape Histories of the Indian Ocean World
Evidence of forest management and arboriculture from wood charcoal data
Timorese archaeobotany
Holocene landscape intervention and plant food production strategies in island and mainland Southeast Asia
Des Lapita au cyclone Pam
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
The West Mouth Neolithic Cemetery, Niah Cave, Sarawak
Re-Dating Mid-Holocene Betelnut ( Areca Catechu L.) and Other Plant Use at Dongan, Papua New Guinea
Pacific Bananas
Digging Deep
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia
Reconnecting Genes, Languages and Material Culture in Island Southeast Asia
Pre‐Austronesian dispersal of banana cultivars West from New Guinea
Sue Bulmer's legacy in highland New Guinea
An archaeobotanical perspective on Holocene plant-use practices in lowland northern New Guinea
Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion
Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia
Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers
Crossing the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the New Guinea Highlands
Archaeology and language
Origins of Agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea
A 40,000 year-old human occupation site at Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Before civilization
Intensification of Agricultural Systems in Papua New Guinea
Identification of cultivated Pandanus and Colocasia in pollen records and the implications for the study of early agriculture in New Guinea
Buang Merabak
The rocky road
Valuable and Useful
The long and the short of it
Second millenniumB.C. arboriculture in Melanesia
The origins of subsistence agriculture in Oceania and the potentials for future tropical food crops
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The transport of Mopir obsidian to late Pleistocene New Ireland
A Late Quaternary inland sea and early pottery in Papua New Guinea
Archaeology and geomorphology of the Vanimo Coast, Papua New Guinea
Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea
The development of Sahul agriculture with Australia as bystander
The dating of the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic
Foregone Conclusions
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |