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menuTen 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
- Bibliography
- Contributors
