TY - JOUR
KW - Papua New Guinea
KW - rainforests
KW - intercropping
KW - yams
KW - Kubo
KW - megapodes
KW - plant domestication
AU - Peter D. Dwyer
AU - Monica Minnegal
AB - Kubo people of Papua New Guinea sometimes grew Dioscorea yams in mounds of forest litter that were made as egg-incubation sites by birds (Megapodiidae). The small yam plots were included within larger banana gardens and, in the latter, it was yams, not bananas, that took precedence in the gardening decisions of people. The technique would be viable in the absence of a larger garden. It is interpreted as an expression of an ancient pattern of small-scale plant domestication.
AN - 93-03334
BT - Human Ecology
C6 - 1530-7069; 1572-9915
DA - 06/1990
DO - 10.1007/BF00889181
IS - 2
LA - English
N2 - Kubo people of Papua New Guinea sometimes grew Dioscorea yams in mounds of forest litter that were made as egg-incubation sites by birds (Megapodiidae). The small yam plots were included within larger banana gardens and, in the latter, it was yams, not bananas, that took precedence in the gardening decisions of people. The technique would be viable in the absence of a larger garden. It is interpreted as an expression of an ancient pattern of small-scale plant domestication.
PY - 1990
SP - 177
EP - 185
T2 - Human Ecology
TI - Yams and megapode mounds in the lowland rain forest of Papua New Guinea
UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/4602964
VL - 18
ER -