Origins of Agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea

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Denham, Timothy
Lentfer, C
Fuller, Susan
Field, Jacqueline
Therin, M
Porch, Nicholas
Winsborough, B
Haberle, Simon

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Multidisciplinary investigations at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea show that agriculture arose independently in New Guinea by at least 6950 to 6440 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.). Plant exploitation and some cultivation

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2037-12-31