The palaeoenvironments of Kuk Swamp from the beginnings of agriculture in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

Quaternary International

Volumn 249, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-139

  Haberle, Simon G ^a   Lentfer, Carol ^b   O'Donnell, Shawn ^a   Denham, Tim ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHARCOAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOLITH; POLLEN; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA; WAHGI VALLEY;

MUSA;

EID: 84855925336     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.048     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Bayliss-Smith T.P. People-plant interactions in the New Guinea highlands: agricultural hearthland or horticultural backwater?. The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia 1996, 499-523. UCL Press, London. D.R. Harris (Ed.).
2. Bayliss-Smith T.P. The meaning of ditches: interpreting the archaeological record from New Guinea using insights from ethnography. Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives 2007, 126-148. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California. T.P. Denham, J. Iriarte, L. Vrydaghs (Eds.).
3. Bennett K.D. Confidence intervals for age estimates and deposition times in late-Quaternary sediment sequences. The Holocene 1994, 4:337-348.
4. Bennett K.D. Determination of the number of zones in a biostratigraphical sequence. New Phytologist 1996, 132:155-170.
5. Bennett K.D. Documentation for Psimpoll 4.25 and Pscomb 1.03: C programs for plotting pollen diagrams and analysing pollen data 2005, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Available at:. http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/psimpoll/psimpoll.html.
6. Bennett K.D., Willis K. Pollen. Terrestrial, Algal and Siliceous Indicators 2001, vol. 3:5-32. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks, W.M. Last (Eds.).
7. Birks H.J.B., Line J.M. The use of rarefraction analysis for estimating palynological richness from quaternary pollen-analytical data. The Holocene 1992, 2:1-10.
8. Bourke R.M. Management of fallow species composition with tree planting in Papua New Guinea 1997, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Working Paper No. 5. Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Project, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, p.9.
9. Coulter S., Denham T.P., Turney C., Hall V. The geochemical characterisation and correlation of locally distributed Late Holocene tephras layers at Ambra Crater and Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea. Geological Journal 2009, 44:568-592.
10. Denham T.P. Early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea: an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp. APacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific 2004, 47-57. Papers in honour of Jim Specht, Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 29. V. Attenbrow, R. Fullagar (Eds.).
11. Denham T.P. Agricultural origins and the emergence of rectilinear ditch networks in the highlands of New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics 2005, vol. 572:329-361. RSPAS, ANU, Canberra. A. Pawley, R. Attenborough, J. Golson, R. Hide (Eds.).
12. Denham T.P. Early agriculture: recent conceptual and methodological developments. The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View 2007, 1-25. Routledge, London. T.P. Denham, P. White (Eds.).
13. Denham T.P. Exploiting diversity: plant exploitation and occupation in the interior of New Guinea during the Pleistocene. Archaeology in Oceania 2007, 42(2):41-48.
14. Denham T.P., Barton H. The emergence of agriculture in New Guinea: continuity from pre-existing foraging practices. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture 2006, 237-264. University of California Press, California. D.J. Kennett, B. Winterhalder (Eds.).
15. Denham T.P., Golson J., Hughes P.J. Reading early agriculture at Kuk (Phases 1-3), Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea: the wetland archaeological features. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 2004, 70:259-298.
16. Denham T.P., Haberle S.G. Agricultural emergence and transformation in the Upper Wahgi valley during the Holocene: theory, method and practice. The Holocene 2008, 18(3):499-514.
17. Denham T.P., Haberle S.G., Lentfer C. New evidence and interpretations for early agriculture in Highland New Guinea. Antiquity 2004, 78:839-857.
18. Denham T.P., Haberle S.G., Lentfer C., Fullagar R., Field J., Therin M., Porch N., Winsborough B. Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea. Science 2003, 301:189-193.
19. Denham T.P., Haberle S.G., Pierret A. Amulti-disciplinary method for the investigation of early agriculture: learning lessons from Kuk. Terra Australis 2009, vol. 28:139-154. ANU E Press, Canberra. A. Fairbairn, S. O'Connor, B. Marwick (Eds.).
20. Denham T.P., Sniderman K., Saunders K., Winsborough B., Pierret A. Contiguous multi-proxy analyses (X-radiography, diatom, pollen and microcharcoal) of Holocene archaeological features at Kuk Swamp, Upper Wahgi valley, Papua New Guinea. Geoarchaeology 2009, 24:715-742.
21. Donoghue D. Carbonised plant macrofossils. Plants in Australian Archaeology 1989, 90-110. Tempus 1, University of Queensland, St. Lucia. W. Beck, A. Clarke, L. Head (Eds.).
22. Flenley, J.R. 1967. The present and former vegetation of the Wabag region of New Guinea. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
23. Fullagar R., Field J., Denham T.P., Lentfer C. Early and mid-Holocene processing of taro (Colocasia esculenta) and yam (Dioscorea sp.) at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science 2006, 33:595-614.
24. Garrett-Jones, S.E, 1979. Evidence for changes in Holocene vegetation and lake sedimentation in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
25. Golson J. No room at the top: agricultural intensification in the New Guinea highlands. Sunda and Sahul: Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia 1977, 601-638. Duckworth, London. J. Allen, J. Golson, R. Jones (Eds.).
26. Golson J. Bulmer Phase II: Early agriculture in the New Guinea highlands. Man and a Half: Essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in Honour of Ralph Bulmer 1991, 484-491. The Polynesian Society, Auckland. A. Pawley (Ed.).
27. Golson J. The Ipomoean revolution revisited: society and sweet potato in the upper Wahgi Valley. Inequality in New Guinea Highland Societies 1982, 109-136. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. A. Strathern (Ed.).
28. Golson J. The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture. Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation 1989, 678-687. Unwin Hyman, London. D.R. Harris, G.C. Hillman (Eds.).
29. Golson J. Gourds in New Guinea, Asia and the Pacific. New Zealand Archaeological Journal Monograph 2002, vol. 25:69-78. Auckland Museum, Auckland. S. Bedford, C. Sand, D. Burley (Eds.).
30. Golson J. Unravelling the story of early plant exploitation in highland Papua New Guinea. Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives 2007, 109-125. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California. T.P. Denham, J. Iriarte, L. Vrydaghs (Eds.).
31. Groube L. The taming of the rain forests: a model for Late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea. One World Archaeology 1989, vol. 13:292-304. Unwin Hyman, London. D.R. Harris, G.C. Hillman (Eds.).
32. Haberle S.G. Anthropogenic indicators in pollen diagrams: problems and prospects for late Quaternary palynology in New Guinea. Tropical Archaeobotany: Applications and New Developments 1994, 172-201. Routledge, London. J.G. Hather (Ed.).
33. Haberle S.G. Late Quaternary vegetation change in the Tari Basin, Papua New Guinea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1998, 137:1-24.
34. Haberle S.G. The emergence of an agricultural landscape in the highlands of New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania 2003, 38:149-158.
35. Haberle S.G. Prehistoric human impact on rainforest biodiversity in highland New Guinea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2007, 362:219-228.
36. Haberle S.G., Atkin G. Needles in a haystack: searching for sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) in the fossil pollen record. Oceania Monograph 2005, vol. 56:25-33. Oceania Publications, University of Sydney. C. Ballard, P. Brown, R.M. Bourke, T. Harwood (Eds.).
37. Haberle S.G., Chepstow-Lusty A. Can climate influence cultural development? A view through time. Environment and History 2000, 6:349-369.
38. Haberle S.G., Hope G.S., De Fretes Y. Environmental change in the Baliem Valley, Montane Irian Jaya, Republic of Indonesia. Journal of Biogeography 1991, 18:25-40.
39. Harris E.C., Hughes P.J. An early agricultural system at Mugumamp Ridge, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Mankind 1978, 11(4):437-445.
40. Hope G.S. Environmental change and fire in the Owen Stanley Ranges, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary Science Reviews 2009, 28:2261-2276.
41. Hughes P.J., Sullivan M.E., Yok D. Human induced erosion in a Highlands catchment in Papua New Guinea: the prehistoric and contemporary records. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Suppl 1991, 83:227-239.
42. Kealhofer L., Piperno D.R. Opal Phytoliths in Southeast Asian Flora 1998, Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, Number 88, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
43. Lentfer, C.J. 2003. Plants, People and Landscapes in Prehistoric Papua New Guinea. A Compendium of Phytolith (and Starch) Analyses. Unpubl. Ph.D. Thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, N.S.W., Australia.
44. Lentfer C.J. Going bananas in PNG: Starch granule morphotypes in Musaceae. Ethnobotany Research and Application 2009, 7:218-238.
45. Lentfer C.J., Boyd W.E. Acomparison of three methods for the extraction of phytoliths from sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science 1998, 25:1159-1183.
46. Lentfer C.J., Pavlides C., Specht J. Natural and human impacts in a 35 000-yr vegetation history in central New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010, 29:3750-3767.
47. McAlpine J.R., Keig G., Falls R. Climate of Papua New Guinea 1983, CSIRO and ANU Press, Canberra.
48. Pain C.F., Pigram C.J., Blong R.J., Arnold G.O. Cainozoic geology and geomorphology of the Wahgi Valley, central highlands of Papua New Guinea. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 1987, 10:267-275.
49. Pearsall D.M. Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures 1989, Academic Press, London.
50. Powell, J.M. 1970. The impact of man on the vegetation of the Mt Hagen region, New Guinea. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra.
51. Powell J.M. The history of plant use and man's impact on the vegetation. Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea 1982, vol. 1:207-227. Junk, The Hague. J.L. Gressitt (Ed.).
52. Powell J.M., Kulunga A., Moge R., Pono C., Zimike F., Golson J. Agricultural Traditions in the Mount Hagen Area 1975, Occasional Paper No. 12, Department of Geography, UPNG, Port Moresby.
53. Sniderman J.M.K., Finn J., Denham T.P. Alate Holocene palaeoecological record from Ambra Crater in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and implications for agricultural history. The Holocene 2009, 19(3):449-458.
54. Stone B.C. New Guinea Pandanaceae: first approach to ecology and biogeography. Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea 1982, 401-436. Junk, The Hague. J.L. Gressitt (Ed.).
55. Summerhayes G.R., Leavesley M., Fairbairn A.S., Mandui H., Field J., Ford A., Fullagar R. Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science 2010, 330:78-81.
56. Whitlock C., Larsen C. Charcoal as a fire proxy. Terrestrial, Algal and Siliceous Indicators 2001, vol. 3:75-98. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks, W.M. Last (Eds.).