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Ten Thousand Years Of Cultivation At Kuk Swamp In The Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
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With the end of World War II, the area, with others, became a focus for the development of coffee and tea plantations, of which the establishment of Kuk Research Station was a result. Large-scale drainage of the swamps produced abundant evidence in the form of stone axes and preserved wooden digging sticks and spades for their past use in cultivation. Investigations in 1966 at a tea plantation in the upper Wahgi Valley by a small team from The Australian National University yielded a date of over 2000 years ago for a wooden stick collected from the bottom of a prehistoric ditch.
The establishment of Kuk Research Station a few kilometres away shortly afterwards provided an ideal opportunity for a research project.
Featured in the 24 July 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 512
Publisher : ANU Press
Publication date : 2017-07-07
Subjects: Non-fiction, Pasifika, Pacific Cultures