Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia

I Ahmed, PJ Lockhart, EMG Agoo… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As an ancient clonal root and leaf crop, taro (Colocasia esculenta, Araceae) is highly
polymorphic with uncertain genetic and geographic origins. We explored chloroplast DNA …

Small game hunting in montane rainforests: Specialised capture and broad spectrum foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands

D Gaffney, GR Summerhayes, S Luu, J Menzies… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Moving into montane rainforests was a unique behavioural innovation developed by
Pleistocene Homo sapiens as they expanded out of Africa and through Southeast Asia and …

Resonating Between Past and Present: Long-Term History for the Island of New Guinea

T Denham, J Muke - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The archaeology of the island of New Guinea is ancient and surprising, yet it is highly
fragmentary in space and time. Consequently, archaeology provides only local and fleeting …

A holistic picture of Austronesian migrations revealed by phylogeography of Pacific paper mulberry

CS Chang, HL Liu, X Moncada, A Seelenfreund… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
The peopling of Remote Oceanic islands by Austronesian speakers is a fascinating and yet
contentious part of human prehistory. Linguistic, archaeological, and genetic studies have …

Frontier Lapita interaction with resident Papuan populations set the stage for initial peopling of the Pacific

B Shaw, S Hawkins, L Becerra-Valdivia… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The initial peopling of the remote Pacific islands was one of the greatest migrations in
human history, beginning three millennia ago by Lapita cultural groups. The spread of …

Global patterns in island colonization during the Holocene

TP Leppard, EE Cochrane, D Gaffney… - Journal of World …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …

[CARTE][B] Tracing early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea: Plot, mound and ditch

T Denham - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the
highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The …

[HTML][HTML] The role of mathematics teacher education in overcoming narrow neocolonial views of mathematics

K Owens - Education Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past 30 years, teacher education has changed to incorporate a larger emphasis on
understanding students' sociocultural backgrounds, knowing that these influence their …

Complete chloroplast genomes of Saccharum spontaneum, Saccharum officinarum and Miscanthus floridulus (Panicoideae: Andropogoneae) reveal the plastid …

DL Evans, SV Joshi - Systematics and biodiversity, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Sugarcane (Saccharum hybrid cultivar) ranks among the world's top 10 food crops and
annually provides 60–70% of the sugar produced worldwide. Despite its economic …

Hunting with dogs: a synthesis of ethnohistorical data and discussion of their implications for prehistoric subsistence in New Guinea

LG Koungoulos, A Brumm - Archaeology in Oceania, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of the dog is widely recognised as a major development in the economic
organisation of ancient and contemporary hunter‐gatherer and agricultural societies …