Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the evolution of a Culture Area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6038685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn Petersen (Baruch College City University of New York One Bernard Baruch Way New York NY 10010 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 82-92 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2006.tb00611.x |
| OpenAlex | W2083139906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 28 |
Micronesia was initially settled from at least three quite separate points of origin and comprises multiple cultural and linguistic stocks. It nevertheless manifests a striking uniformity in its sociopolitical organization. I argue that these shared aspects of Micronesian societies diffused out of the Eastern Caroline Islands as a consequence of a prehistoric sociocultural efflorescence driven at least in part by the hybridization of two entirely different breadfruit species. The characteristic form of Micronesia's dispersed conical clans was spread throughout the entire region, carried along with the economic successes conferred by productive new breadfruit varieties. Botanical, linguistic, archaeological and ethnological data are marshaled to substantiate this argument
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Clan · Ethnology · Geography · Micronesian · Prehistory · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |