Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the Evolution of a Culture Area

Petersen, Glenn (July 2006). "Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the Evolution of a Culture Area". Archaeology in Oceania. 41 (2): 82–92. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.2006.tb00611.x. ISSN 0728-4896.

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Abstract: Abstract Micronesia was initially settled from at least three quite separate points of origin and comprises multiple cultural and linguistic stocks. It nevertheless manifests a striking uniformity in its sociopolitical organization. I argue that these shared aspects of Micronesian societies diffused out of the Eastern Caroline Islands as a consequence of a prehistoric sociocultural efflorescence driven at least in part by the hybridization of two entirely different breadfruit species. The characteristic form of Micronesia's dispersed conical clans was spread throughout the entire region, carried along with the economic successes conferred by productive new breadfruit varieties. Botanical, linguistic, archaeological and ethnological data are marshaled to substantiate this argument.

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