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DOCUMENT Citation Only Manfred Rösch. Wolfram Schier. Otto Ehrmann. Arno Bogenrieder. Mathias Hall. Ludger Herrmann. Erhard Schulz.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Huw Barton.

This paper considers the idea that the origin of swidden agriculture in the tropics arose from long-term practices of fallow management. In various forms, these ideas have been expressed before (particularly in South America), though swidden systems are normally thought of as being introduced into mainland and island Southeast Asia along with rice and taro ‘agriculture’ from southern China. This paper suggests instead that certain ‘domesticates’ may have been integrated into a pre-existing...