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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2013-11-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/1459
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