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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.
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.
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