Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the …

Abstract In his 1959 book, Africa: Its Peoples and Their Culture History, George P. Murdock
suggested that a Malaysian complex of crops dispersed to Africa in ancient times across the …

As an ancient clonal root and leaf crop, taro (Colocasia esculenta, Araceae) is highly
polymorphic with uncertain genetic and geographic origins. We explored chloroplast DNA …

Recent multidisciplinary investigations document an independent emergence of agriculture
at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. In this paper we report preliminary …

A multidimensional conceptual framework is advanced that characterizes early agriculture
as a subset of human-environment interactions. Three cross-articulating dimensions of …

Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands
Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms …

This review of the evidence for early agriculture in New Guinea supported by new data from
Kuk Swamp demonstrates that cultivation had begun there by at least 6950–6440 cal BP …

Occupation of the humid tropics by Late Holocene food producers depended on the use of
vegetative agricultural systems. A small number of vegetative crops from the Americas and …

Abstract Taro, Colocasia esculenta (Araceae), is a widely distributed and important food
crop in the humid tropics and subtropics. Relatively neglected by science, much knowledge …

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 …