book chapter
New Guinea: the last 10,000 years
prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, and Sahul, J. Peter White with James F. O'Connell ; illustrations by Margrit Koettig • Sydney • Published In 1982 • Pages: 171-194
By: White, J. Peter (John Peter), O'Connell, James F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
White summarizes the last 10,000 years of prehistory in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in the first half of this document, the second half covers the lowlands. He also covers the changes to the environment and climate during this time period. The development of intensive agriculture, probably for the cultivation of taro, is explored by summarizing the excavations at Kuk and Mugumamp Ridge. White goes on to review the known data on settlement patterns and how the introduction of the sweet potato allowed people to more fully exploit and impact the environment at higher elevations. Hypotheses about how and when pigs were first introduce to the island are explored. White briefly covers trade networks and some of the more unusual features of stone technology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Prehistory
- Historical reconstruction
- Tillage
- Water supply
- Lithic industries
- Settlement patterns
- 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)
- Montane New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. P. White and J. F. O'Connell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-268)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81071781
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Papua New Guinea Antiquities