Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of New Guinea
- PMID: 12817084
- DOI: 10.1126/science.1085255
Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of New Guinea
Abstract
Multidisciplinary investigations at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea show that agriculture arose independently in New Guinea by at least 6950 to 6440 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.). Plant exploitation and some cultivation occurred on the wetland margin at 10,220 to 9910 cal yr B.P. (phase 1), mounding cultivation began by 6950 to 6440 cal yr B.P. (phase 2), and ditched cultivation began by 4350 to 3980 cal yr B.P. (phase 3). Clearance of lower montane rainforests began in the early Holocene, with modification to grassland at 6950 to 6440 cal yr B.P. Taro (Colocasia esculenta) was utilized in the early Holocene, and bananas (Musa spp.) were intensively cultivated by at least 6950 to 6440 cal yr B.P.
Comment in
-
Anthropology. New Guinea: a cradle of agriculture.Science. 2003 Jul 11;301(5630):180-1. doi: 10.1126/science.1086677. Epub 2003 Jun 19. Science. 2003. PMID: 12817087 No abstract available.
Similar articles
-
Anthropology. New Guinea: a cradle of agriculture.Science. 2003 Jul 11;301(5630):180-1. doi: 10.1126/science.1086677. Epub 2003 Jun 19. Science. 2003. PMID: 12817087 No abstract available.
-
Origin and environmental setting of ancient agriculture in the lowlands of Mesoamerica.Science. 2001 May 18;292(5520):1370-3. doi: 10.1126/science.292.5520.1370. Science. 2001. PMID: 11359011
-
Fire and flood management of coastal swamp enabled first rice paddy cultivation in east China.Nature. 2007 Sep 27;449(7161):459-62. doi: 10.1038/nature06135. Nature. 2007. PMID: 17898767
-
Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the 'core area' hypothesis in Southwest Asia.J Exp Bot. 2012 Jan;63(2):617-33. doi: 10.1093/jxb/err307. Epub 2011 Nov 4. J Exp Bot. 2012. PMID: 22058404 Review.
-
The ecology of Huli subsistence agriculture.P N G Med J. 2002 Mar-Jun;45(1-2):15-43. P N G Med J. 2002. PMID: 14658826 Review.
Cited by
-
Genome-wide association analyses using multilocus models on bananas (Musa spp.) reveal candidate genes related to morphology, fruit quality, and yield.G3 (Bethesda). 2024 Aug 7;14(8):jkae108. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae108. G3 (Bethesda). 2024. PMID: 38775627 Free PMC article.
-
Identification of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis.PLoS One. 2024 Mar 20;19(3):e0298896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298896. eCollection 2024. PLoS One. 2024. PMID: 38507346 Free PMC article.
-
Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse.Elife. 2023 Nov 27;12:e85118. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85118. Elife. 2023. PMID: 38011372 Free PMC article.
-
Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas.Front Plant Sci. 2022 Oct 7;13:969220. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.969220. eCollection 2022. Front Plant Sci. 2022. PMID: 36275535 Free PMC article.
-
Chronology of natural selection in Oceanian genomes.iScience. 2022 Jun 30;25(7):104583. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104583. eCollection 2022 Jul 15. iScience. 2022. PMID: 35880026 Free PMC article.
Publication types
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources
Miscellaneous
