ARCA2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wahgi Language, Malaria, Field System
30 Jul 2018
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Lecture 11: holocene occupation in new guinea, bismark archipelago and the torres strait: origins of melanesian agriculture. Found drainage channels, reminiscent of agricultural earthworks used today c. 9ka c. 20ka: anthropogenic vegetation burning: 10-9000 cal. Starch from dioscorea sp. and colocasia sp. on stone tools: 6900-6400 cal. bp: construction of artificial drain and ditch network. Deliberate planting of banana within the artificial landscape. Agroecosystem: artificial mound and ditch systems, anthropogenic vegetation burning, evidence for domestic plants. Kosipe, ivane valley: niche constructing action: anthropogenic vegetation burning, 41-38,000 cal. bp in ivane valley. Week 12 lecture: niche construction: translocation of species. Short term: addition of starch-rich yam to highland diet. Long term: possibility of genetic selection and small-scale cultivation. Long term: possibility of domestication: control of gene selection, anthropogenic grassland, tending, deforestation. Spread of agriculture, ng lowlands: no ar(cid:272)haeologi(cid:272)al e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e of do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)ates or (cid:858)agroe(cid:272)osyste(cid:373)s, genetics and linguistics: Highland populations remained isolated following initial colonisation of the region: geography:
