book chapter
No room at the top: agricultural intensification in the New Guinea highlands
sunda and sahul : prehistoric studies in southeast asia, melanesia and australia • London • Published In 1977 • Pages: 601-638
By: Golson, Jack.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Golson briefly describes the character of agriculture in the highlands and then explores how it was thought to have originated and evolved. Golson points out the most limiting environmental factor on agriculture in the highlands is the altitude. The major part of this document is spent on summarizing the findings from the excavations at Kuk, mostly by describing the different phases of agricultural management and their agricultural drainage features. The archaeological evidence in conjunction with several local pollen sequences, provide evidence of the beginings and evolution of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- Tillage
- Water supply
- Environmental quality
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1974-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 9,000 BP - 100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kuk; Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jack Golson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 634-638 )
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77074808
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Papua New Guinea Antiquities