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Development of an agroforest on a Micronesian high island: prehistoric Kosraean agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. Stephen Athens ,
Jerome V. Ward  and
Gail M. Murakami
J. Stephen Athens
Affiliation:
International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., 949 McCully Street, Suite 5, Honolulu HI 96826–2780, USA. E-mail: iarii@aloha.net
Jerome V. Ward
Affiliation:
Pacific Palynology, P.O. Box 2592, Auburn AL 36831–2592, USA
Gail M. Murakami
Affiliation:
International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., 949 McCully Street, Suite 5, Honolulu HI 96826–2780, USA. E-mail: iarii@aloha.net
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The impact of the human presence on the fauna of a Pacific island is often immediately archaeologically visible in the slaughter of its land birds seen in the bones. The impact on vegetation is less distinct archaeologically, and many of the Pacific cultigens have soft tissues which rarely preserve. So a study of prehistoric agriculture on one of the high Micronesian islands largely involves pollen and charcoal.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 834 - 846
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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