Kuk Swamp is an archaeological site in Papua New Guinea, that lies in the Wahgi Valley of the highlands at an altitude of about 1550 m some 12–13 km ...
Kuk Early Agricultural Site consists of 116 ha of swamps in the western highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has ...
Feb 6, 2012 ... Multi-disciplinary investigations at Kuk Swamp, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea have yielded direct evidence for agriculture around 7000 cal BP ( ...
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 of its eastern tail.
... Get rights and content. Full text access. Abstract. Recent ... Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea, has been central to debate about agricultural ...
These claims were, however, largely unsubstantiated. Archaeological remains of former cultivation dating back to the early Holocene at Kuk were reported but ...
Jun 15, 2021 ... The first evidence of deliberate banana cultivation comes from Kuk Swamp, in materials dated to 6950 to 6440 years before the present. (I ...
... to 6440 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.). Plant exploitation and some cultivation occurred on the wetland margin at 10220 to 9 …
Kuk Swamp lies at around 1580 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley, a large intermontane basin between the Sepik-Wahgi Divide to the north and the Kubor Range ...
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 of its eastern tail.
