Biodiversity through Domestication
It is not widely known that Melanesia became a centre of horticulture and arboriculture about 8,000 years ago: taro (Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosprema chamissonis, Alocasia macrorrhiza); sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a close relative called sayur lilin in Bahasa Indonesia, respectively pitpit i...
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| Main Author: | Wulf Schiefenhövel |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Revue d'ethnoécologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/1459 |
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