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Impact of Human Colonization on the Landscape: A View from the Western Pacific

Date

Authors

Summerhayes, Glenn

Leavesley, Matthew

Fairbairn, Andrew S.

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Abstract

In this paper we review and assess the impact of colonizing peoples on their landscape by focusing on two very different colonizing processes within the western Pacific. The first is the initial human colonization of New Guinea 45,000-40,000 years ago by

Keywords

Keywords: agricultural practice; archaeology; archipelago; colonization; historical record; hunter-gatherer; landscape structure; nature-society relations; social structure; subsistence; Asia; Bismarck Archipelago; Eurasia; Malay Archipelago; Melanesia; New Guinea;

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/51392

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Pacific Science: a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific Region

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.2984/049.063.0412

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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