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Reconsidering the ‘Neolithic’ at Manim rock shelter, Wurup Valley, Papua New Guinea

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Is the 'Neolithic' relevant to the highlands of Papua New Guinea?What needs to be pointed out at this stage is that there was no point at which a homogenous Neolithic 'package' of economic practice and material culture ever existed.(Thomas 1999:14) … in practice the evidence which is available to us relates to a more complex, messy and fragmented series of developments, and that any attempt to define a particular set of attributes as constituting the Neolithic will be arbitrary in the extreme.(Thomas 1999

Source: ANU Press eBooks

DOI: 10.22459/ta51.2019.06

Author: Tim Denham

Institution: Australian National University

Language: English

Topic: Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: University of Waikato, Australian Research Council

Award: Unearthing the roots of agriculture: multi-disciplinary investigations of Pleistocene and Holocene plant exploitation in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea