Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6000, 2010, Pages 78-81

  Summerhayes, Glenn R ^a   Leavesley, Matthew ^b   Fairbairn, Andrew ^c   Mandui, Herman ^d   Field, Judith ^e   Ford, Anne ^a   Fullagar, Richard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea   (Papua New Guinea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f Scarp Archaeology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EMERGENCE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NUT; PANDANUS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YAM; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PANDANACEAE; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT; TREE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW GUINEA;

PANDANUS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; DIOSCOREA; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NEW GUINEA; NUTS; PANDANACEAE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TREES;

EID: 77957349484     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193130     Document Type: Article

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12. This research was supported by the Marsden Fund Council from government funding administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. We thank G. Hope for introducing us to the Ivane Valley and companionship in the field; the communities of the Ivane Valley for their support; and the National Research Institute of PNG and the National Museum and Art Gallery of PNG for their support and affiliation. The authors acknowledge the facilities as well as scientific and technical assistance from the staff at the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility and the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at the University of Sydney. We thank L. O'Neill and M. Hennessey for the illustrations and J. Allen and M. Weisler for providing comments on a draft of the paper. J.F. thanks R. Torrence for access to the Australian Museum PNG starch reference collection. R.F. is indebted to the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney for facilitating the import of quarantined material and access to laboratory space.