Early cultivation practices and plant domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia

Summary

Early cultivation practices and plant domestication in the New Guinea and Island Southeast Asian regions were largely based on the vegetative propagation of a range of plant types – including root crops, shrubs, grasses and herbs – as well as the transplantation of palms, pandans and trees. The character of early agricultural practices within these regions, as well as in tropical rainforest environments elsewhere, requires different conceptual and methodological approaches than have been adopted or proposed elsewhere. This stance does not represent a descent into conceptual relativism, rather it seeks to understand the emergence of agriculture for each region of the world on its own terms.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• New Perspectives on Agricultural Origins

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