Pacific Bananas: Complex origins, multiple dispersals?

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-94

  Kennedy, Jean ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

And genetics; Banana domestication; Banana phytoliths; Fe'i bananas; Indo Pacific migration and colonization; New Guinea archaeobotany; Pacific plantains; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONIZATION; CROP PLANT; DISPERSAL; GENETIC VARIATION; PALEOBOTANY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; POLYNESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

MUSA TROGLODYTARUM;

EID: 41549135106     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2008.0004     Document Type: Review

References (83)

1. ALLABY, R. 2007 Origins of plant exploitation in Near Oceania: A review, in Genes, language and culture history in the Southwest Pacific: 181-198, ed. J. Friedlaender. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. ANDERSON, A. J. 2003 Initial human dispersal in Remote Oceania: Pattern and explanation, in Pacific archaeology: Assessments and prospects: 71-84, ed. C. Sand. Les Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle Calédonie, 15. Nouméa: Service des Musées et du Patrimoine.
3. ARGENT, G.C.G. 1976 The wild bananas of New Guinea. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 35:77-114.
4. ARNAUD, E., AND J.-P. HORRY, EDS. 1997 Musalogue: A catalogue of Musa germplasm. Papua New Guinea collecting expeditions, 1988-1989. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
5. BALL, T., L. VRYDAGHS, I. VAN DEN HAUWE, J. MANWARING, AND E. DE LANGHE 2006 Differentiating banana phytoliths: Wild and edible Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 1228-1236.
6. BARRAU, J. 1962 Les plantes alimentaires de l'Océanie: Origines, distribution et usages. Marseilles: Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille.
7. BARRAU, J. 1965 Histoire et préhistoire horticoles de l'Océanie tropicale. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 21:55-78.
8. BELLWOOD, P. S. 2005 First farmers: The origins of agricultural societies. Oxford: Blackwell.
9. BOWDERY, D. 1999 Phytoliths from tropical sediments: Reports from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the Indo Pacific Prehistory Association 18: 159-167.
10. CARREEL, F., S. FAURÉ, D. GONZALEZ DE LÉON, P. LAGODA, X. PERRIER, F. BAKRY, H. TÉZENAS DU MONTCEL, C. LANAUD AND J.-P. HORRY 1994 Évaluation de la diversité génétique chez les bananiers diploïdes (Musa ssp.). Genetics Selection Evolution 26 (Supplement 1): 125s-136s.
11. CARREEL, F., D. GONZÁLEZ DE LÉON, P. LAGODA, C. LANAUD, C. JENNY, J.-P. HORRY AND H. TÉZENAS DU MONTCEL 2002 Ascertaining maternal and paternal lineage within Musa by chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA RFLP analyses. Genome 45:679-692.
12. CUMMINGS, L. S. 1998 A review of recent pollen and phytolith studies from various contexts on Easter Island, in Easter Island in the Pacific context. South Seas symposium: 100-106, ed. C. M. Stevenson, G. Lee, and F. J. Marin. Santa Barbara: Easter Island Foundation.
13. D'HONT, A., A. PAGET-GOY, J. ESCOUTE, AND F. CARREEL 2000 The interspecific genome structure of cultivated banana, Musa spp. revealed by genomic DNA in situ hybridization. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 100: 177-183.
14. DANIELLS, J. 1990 The banana varieties of Tonga, Western Samoa and the Cook Islands. Musarama 3(1):6-10.
15. DANIELLS, J. 1995 Illustrated guide to the identification of banana varieties in the South Pacific. Canberra, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
16. DANIELLS, J. 2004 Consultancy report on training in the identification and characterization of banana varieties and development of the banana industry in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, prepared for the Island Food Community of Pohnpei.
17. DANIELLS, J., C. JENNY, D. KARAMURA, AND K. TOMEKPE 2001 Musa logue: A catalogue of Musa germplasm. Diversity in the genus Musa. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
18. DE LANGHE, E., AND P. DE MARET 2000 Tracking the banana: Its significance in early agriculture, in The prehistory of food: Appetites for change: 377-396, ed. C. Gosden and J. Rather. London and New York: Routledge.
19. DE LANGHE, E., M. PILLAY, A. TENKOUANO, AND R. SWENNEN 2005 Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy in Musa: The African plantains (Musa spp. AAB group). Plant Systematics and Evolution 255:225-236.
20. DE LANGHE, E., R. SWENNEN, AND D. VUYLSTEKE 1994-1995 Plantain in the early Bantu world. Azania 29/30:147-160.
21. DENHAM, T. 2004 The roots of agriculture and arboriculture in New Guinea: Looking beyond Austronesian expansion, Neolithic packages and indigenous origins. World Archaeology 36(4):610-620.
22. DENHAM, T. 2005 Envisaging early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea: Landscapes, plants and practices. World Archaeology 37(2): 290-306.
23. DENHAM, T., S. G. HABERLE, C. J. LENTFER, R. FULLAGAR, J. FIELD, M. THERIN, N. PORCH, AND B. WINSBOROUGH 2003 Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea. Science 301:189-193.
24. DENHAM, T., S. G. HABERLE, AND C. J. LENTFER 2004 New evidence and revised interpretations of early agriculture in Highland New Guinea. Antiquity 78(302):839-857.
25. DOBNEY, K., T. CUCCHI, AND G. LARSON 2007 The pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New evidence for taxonomic status and human-mediated dispersal. This volume.
26. EDISON, H. S., A. SUTANTO, C. HERMANTO, H. LAKUY, AND Y. RUMSARWIR 2002 The exploration of Musaceae in Irian Jaya (Papua), 11 February-5 March 2002. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
27. ENGLBERGER, L., W. AALBERSBERG, P. RAVI, E. BONNIN, G. C. MARKS, M. H. FITZGERALD, AND J. ELYMORE 2003 Further analyses on Micronesian banana, taro, breadfruit and other foods for provitamin A carotenoids and minerals. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 16:219-236.
28. ENGLBERGER, L., AND A. LORENS 2004 Pohnpei bananas: A photo collection: Carotenoid-rich varieties. Suva, Fiji: Food Community of Pohnpei and Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
29. ESPINO, R.R.C., S. H. JAMALUDDIN, B. SILAYOI, AND R. E. NASUTION 1991 Musa L. (edible cultivars), in Plant resources of South-East Asia 2: Edible fruits and nuts: 225-233, ed. E. W. M. Verheij and R. E. Coronel. Wageningen: Pudoc.
30. GOLSON, J. 1977 No room at the top: Agricultural intensification in the New Guinea highlands, in Sunda and Sahul: Prehistoric studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia: 601-638, ed. J. Allen, J. Golson, and R. Jones. London, New York, and San Francisco: Academic Press.
31. GRIVET, L., C. DANIELS, J. C. GLASZMANN, AND A. D'HONT 2004 A review of recent molecular genetics evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 2:9-17.
32. HORRY, J.-P., AND M. JAY 1988 Distribution of anthocyanins in wild and cultivated banana varieties. Phytochemistry 27(8):2661-2672.
33. JARRET, R. L., N. GAWEL, A. WHITTEMORE, AND S. SHARROCK 1992 RFLP-based phylogeny of Musa species in Papua New Guinea. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 84:579-584.
34. KAGY, V. 1998 The food, socioeconomic and cultural importance of banana in Kanak society in New Caledonia. Info Musa 7(2):22-24.
35. KAGY, V., AND F. CARREEL 2004 Bananas in New Caledonian Kanak society: Their socio-cultural value in relation with their origins. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 2: 29-35.
36. KENNEDY, J. in press Bananas: Towards a revised prehistory, in Ethnobotanist of distant pasts: Essays in honour of Gordon Hillman, ed. A. Fairbairn and E. Weiss. UK: Oxbow.
37. KENNEDY, J., AND W. CLARKE 2004 Cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific. RMAP Working Paper 50. Canberra: Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
38. KIRCH, P. V. 1994 The wet and the dry: Irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
39. KIRSCH, P. V. 1997 The Lapita peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic world. Oxford: Blackwell.
40. KIRSCH, P. V. 2000 On the road of the winds: An archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact. Berkeley: University of California Press.
41. KIRCH, P. V., AND R. C. GREEN 2001 Hawaiki, ancestral Polynesia: An essay in historical anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. KIRCH, P. V., D. W. STEADMAN, V. L. BUTLER, J. HATHER, AND M. I. WEISLER 1995 Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 30(2):47-65.
43. KIRCH, P. V., AND D. E. YEN 1982 Tikopia: The prehistory and ecology of a Polynesian outlier. B. P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 238.
44. LEBOT, V. 1999 Biomolecular evidence for plant domestication in Sahul. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 46:619-628.
45. LEBOT, V., M. ARADHYA, R. MANSHARDT, AND B. MEILLEUR 1993 Genetic relationships among cultivated bananas and plantains from Asia and the Pacific. Euphytica 67:163-175.
46. LEBOT, V., B. MEILLEUR, AND R. MANSHARDT 1994 Genetic diversity in Eastern Polynesian Eumusa bananas. Pacific Science 48(1):16-31.
47. LEJJU, B. J., P. ROBERTSHAW, AND D. TAYLOR 2006 Africa's earliest bananas? Journal of Archaeological Science 33(1):102-113.
48. LENTFER, C. J. 2003 Tracing antiquity of banana cultivation in Papua New Guinea: Report on collection of modern reference material from Papua New Guinea in 2002. Unpublished report prepared for the Pacific Biological Foundation, Sydney, Australia.
49. LENTFER, C. J., AND R. C. GREEN 2004 Phytoliths and the evidence for banana cultivation at the Lapita Reber-Rakival site on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea, in A Pacific odyssey: Archaeology and anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in honour of Jim Specht: 75-88, ed. V. Attenbrow and R. Fullagar. Records of the Australian Museum 29, Sydney: Australian Museum.
50. LEPOFSKY, D. 2003 The ethnobotany of cultivated plants of the Maohi of the Society Islands. Economic Botany 57(1):73-92.
51. MAcDANIELS, L. H. 1947 A study of the Fei banana and its distribution with reference to Polynesian migrations. B. P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 190.
52. MATTHEWS, P. J. 1996 Ethnobotany, and the origins of Broussonetia papyrifera in Polynesia: An essay on tapa pre-history, in Oceanic culture history: Essays in honour of Roger Green: 117-132, ed. J. M. Davidson, G. Irwin, B. F. Leach, A. Pawley, and D. Brown. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication. Dunedin: New Zealand Archaeological Association.
53. MEIDA, C. M., W. VAN NEER, H. DOUTRELEPONT, AND L. VRYDAGHS 2000 Evidence for banana cultivation and animal husbandry during the first millennium BC in the forest of southern Cameroon. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:151-162.
54. MBIDA, C. M., H. DOUTRELEPONT, L. VRYDAGHS, R. L. SWENNEN, R. J. SWENNEN, H. BEECKMAN, E. DE LANGHE, AND P. DE MARET 2001 First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 10:1-6.
55. MCCLATCHEY, W., R. THAMAN, AND S. VODONAIVALU 2000 A preliminary checklist of the flora of Rotuma with Rotuman names. Pacific Science 54(4):345-363.
56. MERRILL, E. D. 1954 The botany of Cook's voyages and its unexpected significance in relation to anthropology, biogeography and history. Waltham, MA: Chronica Botanica.
57. NASUTION, R. E. 1991 A taxonomic study of the species Musa acuminata Colla with its intraspecific taxa in Indonesia. Memoirs, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Agriculture.
58. NASUTION, R. E. 1993 Rediscovery of two wild seeded bananas of Indonesia. InfoMusa 2(2):16-18.
59. NOYER, J.-L., S. CAUSSE, K. TOMEKPÉ, A. BOUET, AND F.-C. BAURENS 2005 A new image of plantain diversity assessed by SSR, AFLP and MSAP markers. Genetica 124:61-69.
60. PLOETZ, R. C., A. K. KEPLER, J. DANIELLS, AND S. C. NELSON 2007 Banana and plantain - an overview with emphasis on Pacific island cultivars, ver. 1, in Species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry: 1-27, ed. C. R. Elevitch. Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Hōlualoa, Hawai'i. .
61. POLLEFEYS, P., S. SHARROCK, AND E. ARNAUD 2004 Preliminary analysis of the literature on the distribution of wild Musa species using MGIS and DIVA-GIS. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain. Rome: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute.
62. PURSEGLOVE, J. W. 1975 Tropical crops: Monocotyledons. 2nd impression. New York: Halsted Press.
63. RABOIN, L.-M., F. CARREEL, J.-L. NOYER, F.-C. BAURENS, J.-P. HORRY, F. BAKRY, H. TÉZENAS DU MONTCEL, J. GANRY, C. LANAUD, AND P. LAGODA 2005 Diploid ancestors of triploid export banana cultivars: Molecular identification of 2n restitution gamete donors and n gamete donors. Molecular Breeding 16:333-341.
64. Ross, M. 1996 Reconstructing food plant terms and associated terminologies in Proto Oceanic, in Oceanic studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Oceanic linguistics: 163-221, ed. J. Lynch and F. Pat. Pacific Linguistics C-133. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
65. SHARROCK, S. 1990 Collecting Musa in Papua New Guinea, in Identification of genetic diversity in the genus Musa: Proceedings of an international workshop held at Los Baños, Philippines, 5-10 September 1988: 140-157, ed. R. L. Jarret. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
66. SHARROCK, S. 1995 Collecting the Musa gene pool in Papua New Guinea, in Collecting plant genetic diversity, the technical guidelines: 647-658, ed. L. Guarino, V. R. Rao, and R. Reid. Rome: CAB International, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute.
67. SHARROCK, S. 2001 Diversity in the genus Musa. Focus on Australimusa. Focus Paper 1, INIBAP Annual Report 2000. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
68. SIMMONDS, N. W. 1954 Notes on banana varieties in Hawaii. Pacific Science 8:226-229.
69. SIMMONDS, N. W. 1956 Botanical results of the banana collecting expedition, 1954-55. Kew Bulletin 11:463-489.
70. SIMMONDS, N. W. 1959 Bananas. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
71. SIMMONDS, N. W. 1962 The evolution of the bananas. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
72. SIMMONDS, N. W., AND K. SHEPHERD 1955 The taxonomy and origins of the cultivated bananas. Journal of the Linnaean Society (Botany) 55:302-312.
73. VALMAYOR, R. V. 2001 Classification and characterization of Musa exotica, M. alinsanaya and M. acuminata ssp. errans. InfoMusa 10(2):35-39.
74. VRYDAGHS, L., AND E. DE LANGHE 2003 Phytoliths: An opportunity to rewrite history. Focus Paper, in Annual Report 2002, 14-17. Montpellier: International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
75. WEISLER, M. I. 1997 Prehistoric long-distance interaction at the margins of Oceania, in Prehistoric long-distance interaction in Oceania: An interdisciplinary approach: 149-172, ed. M. I. Weisler. NZAA Monograph 21. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association.
76. WILSON, S. M. 1985 Phytolith analysis at Kuk, an early agricultural site in Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania 20:90-97.
77. WONG, C., R. KIEW, J. P. LOH, L. H. GAN, O. SET, S. K. LEE, S. LUM, AND Y. Y. GAN 2001 Genetic diversity of the wild banana Musa acuminata Colla in Malaysia as evidenced by AFLP. Annals of Botany 88:1017-1025.
78. WONG, C., R. KIEW, G. ARGENT, O. SET, S. K. LEE, AND Y. Y. GAN 2002 Assessment of the validity of the sections in Musa (Musaceae) using AFLP. Annals of Botany 90:231-238.
79. YEN, D. E. 1973 The origins of Oceanic agriculture. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 8(1):68-85.
80. YEN, D. E. 1974 Arboriculture in the subsistence of Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands. Economic Botany 28:247-284.
81. YEN, D. E. 1982 The history of cultivated plants, in Melanesia: Beyond diversity: 281-295, ed. R. J. May and H. Nelson. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.
82. YEN, D. E. 1991 Polynesian cultigens and cultivars: The questions of origin, in Islands, plants and Polynesians; An introduction to Polynesian ethnobotany: 67-95, ed. P. A. Cox and S. A. Banack. Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press.
83. YEN, D. E. 1993 The origins of subsistence agriculture in Oceania and the potential for future tropical food crops. Economic Botany 47:3-14.