Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide

• Autores: David Harris
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 69, Nº 265, 1995, págs. 848-854
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier?