Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

• Other Authors: Golson, Jack (Editor), Denham, Tim (Editor), Hughes, Philip (Editor), Swadling, Pamela (Editor), Muke, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: ANU Press 2017
• Series: Terra Australis
• Subjects: Gardening; Australasian & Pacific history; The Earth: natural history general; Agronomy & crop production; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; History; Technology; Garden & Landscape
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end...