Tracing Early Agriculture In The Highlands Of New Guinea 1st Tim Denham by Tim Denham 9781351115285, 9781351115308, 9781351115292, 9781351115278, 1351115286, 1351115308, 1351115294, 1351115278, 2017060352 instant download after payment.

In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of
agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were
transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish
New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant
domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based
interpretation of early agriculture that has broader application to
other regions of the world.
The multi-disciplinary record from the highlands has the potential to
challenge and change long held assumptions regarding early agriculture
globally, which are usually based on domestication. Early agriculture in
the highlands is charted by an exposition of the practices of plant
exploitation and cultivation. Practices are ontologically prior because
they ultimately produce the phenotypic and genotypic changes in plant
species characterised as domestication, as well as the social and
environmental transformations associated with agriculture. They are also
methodologically prior because they emplace plants in specific
historico-geographic contexts.