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Arboriculture and agriculture in coastal Papua New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Chris Gosden
Chris Gosden*
Affiliation:
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, England
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Abstract

A central issue in the regional prehistory over the Transition — and therefore of this whole set of papers — is the different life-ways that came to be followed in Papua New Guinea and in Australia itself; the one became agricultural, the other hunter-gatherer. There is more to the story than that divide; this is a story of a human and created world, rather than a simple response to directing environment.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995 , pp. 807 - 817
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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