Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Acton, ANU Press, 2017.
Quarto, xxxii, 512 pages with numerous tables, maps and illustrations (many in colour),.
Colour-pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; a few trifling blemishes; an excellent copy.
Inscribed and signed in ink on the title page by editor Jack Golson. 'Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m in the upper Wahgi Valley ... was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs, supported by the intensive cultivation of the tropical American sweet potato on the slopes above swampy valley bottoms' (from the blurb).
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