Ref ID:	31741
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Addison, David J.
Title:	Traditional agriculture of the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
Date:	1996
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5 to 12 January 1994.
Abstract:	Agriculture was an important component of the subsistence strategy of the ancient Marquesans. The present understanding of traditional Marquesan agriculture is based more on ethnographic and historical than archaeological sources. Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) has been portrayed as the dominant crop, while other cultigens have been assigned less important roles. Recent fieldwork suggests that the current model conceals the great variability of traditional Marquesan agriculture and that irrigated taro (Colocasia esculenta) cultivation was important in the wetter valleys facing the north and east coasts.
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