Ref ID:	31897
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Cauchois, Mickaelle-Hinanui
Title:	Dryland horticulture in Maupiti: an ethnoarchaeological study
Date:	2002
Source:	Asian Perspectives (2002)
Notes:	Special Issue: Eastern Polynesia
Abstract:	Maupiti (Society Islands, French Polynesia) is a small high island where dry and nonmechanized horticulture is still practiced. These practices can be seen in small orchard-gardens on the coastal plain and on mountainsides. Dryland cultures can seldom be organized in larger .elds in the mountain,wher e staple species such as taro and bananas can be mixed among fallow. A quasi-exhaustive archaeological survey has been made in Maupiti and no evidence of prehistoric horticultural remains were found. This lack of archaeological remains and the presence of several dryland orchard-gardens were the beginning of a study whose main purpose was to try to understand how dryland horticulture should appear in the archaeological record.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	41
Number:	2
Page Start:	269
Page End:	283