book chapter
Papua New Guinea highlands prehistory: a social anthropologist's view
evolution of highland Papua New Guinea societies • Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] • Published In 1987 • Pages: 12-37, 287-306
By: Feil, D. K. (Daryl Keith).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Feil synthesizes the data on the introduction and evolution of agriculture in the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Feil also examines the changes to the economies of the eastern and western highlands brought about by the introduction of the sweet potato and how it influenced agriculture, pig production, exchange, and the division of labor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Domesticated animals
- Tillage
- Exchange and transfers
- Production and supply
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- New Guinea Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10,000 BP - 100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Highlands; Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- D. K. Feil
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-306)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86032681
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Papua New Guinea Antiquities