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Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

First Page
Title Page
Copyright and Imprint Information
List of Figures
List of Tables
Prologue
Acknowledgements
1. An Introduction to the Investigations at Kuk Swamp
Part One: Agriculture in a World, Regional and Local Setting
2. Early Agriculture in World Perspective
3. Domesticatory Relationships in the New Guinea Highlands
4. Environment and Food Production in Papua New Guinea
5. The Wetland Field Systems of the New Guinea Highlands
Part Two: Kuk Swamp and its Store of Evidence
6. Kuk Swamp
7. Volcanic Ash at Kuk
8. Tibito Tephra, Taim Tudak and the Impact of Thin Tephra Falls
9. Palaeoecology
10. The Archaeobotany of Kuk
Part Three: People in the Swamp and on its Margins
11. Phase 1: The Case for 10,000-Year-Old Agriculture at Kuk
12. Phase 2: Mounded Cultivation During the Mid Holocene
13. Phase 3: The Emergence of Ditches
14. Phase 4: Major Disposal Channels, Slot-Like Ditches and Grid-Patterned Fields
15. Phase 5: Retreating Forests, Flat-Bottomed Ditches and Raised Fields
16. Phase 6: Impact of the Sweet Potato on Swamp Landuse, Pig Rearing and Exchange Relations
17. Houses in and out of the Swamp
Part Four: Artefacts of Wood and Stone
18. The Kuk Artefacts, an Introduction
19. Artefacts of Wood
20. Kuk Stone Artefacts: Technology, Usewear and Residues
21. Stone Sources and Petrology of Kuk Swamp Artefacts
Part Five: The Traditional Owners
22. Hagen Settlement Histories: Dispersals and Consolidations
23. Kuk Phase 7, 1969–1990, the Kuk Research Station: A Colonial Interlude
24. Kuk 1991 to 1998, the Station Abandoned and the Land Resumed: Archaeological Implications
25. Kuk Phase 8: Heritage Issues to 2008
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