Kuk (Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea)

	Kuk
	Werelderfgoed cultuur
Land	Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea
Coördinaten	5° 47′ ZB, 144° 54′ OL
UNESCO-regio	Azië en de Grote Oceaan
Criteria	iii en iv
	Inschrijvingsverloop
UNESCO-volgnr.	887
Inschrijving	2008 (32e sessie)
	Kaart
	;
	UNESCO-werelderfgoedlijst

Kuk is een archeologische site in Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea. Tijdens de opgravingen zijn drainagestelsels gevonden van circa 9000 v. Chr. In 2008 is Kuk geplaatst op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO.

In de oudste opgravingslaag werden fytolieten van banaan gevonden.[1][2] In combinatie met de drainagestelsels wijst dit op bananenteelt. De ouderdom van deze laag is met C14-datering vastgesteld op 10.190 cal BP.[3] Dit is het oudst bekende voorbeeld van bananenteelt.[4]

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

Korstanje, M.A. and Cuenya, P., 2010. Ancient agriculture and domestic activities: a contextual approach studying silica phytoliths and other microfossils in soils. Environmental Archaeology, 15(1): 43-63. PDF
INIBAP. 2003. Networking Banana and Plantain: INIBAP Annual Report 2002. International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, Montpellier, France, 73 pp. ISSN 1029-2209. PDF
Terrell, J.E., Hart, J.P., Barut, S., Cellinese, N., Curet, A., Denham, T., Kusimba, C.M., Latinis, K., Oka, R., Palka, J., Pobl, M.E.D., Pope, K.O., Williams, P.R., Haines, H., Staller, J.E., 2003. Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 10(4: 323-368. PDF
Lentfer, C., 2002. Phytolith analysis of sediments from Kundil's section at Kuk, Papua New Guinea and evidence of Early Holocene banana cultivation. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March 2002.

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[1] Korstanje, M.A. and Cuenya, P., 2010. Ancient agriculture and domestic activities: a contextual approach studying silica phytoliths and other microfossils in soils. Environmental Archaeology, 15(1): 43-63. PDF

[2] INIBAP. 2003. Networking Banana and Plantain: INIBAP Annual Report 2002. International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, Montpellier, France, 73 pp. ISSN 1029-2209. PDF

[3] Terrell, J.E., Hart, J.P., Barut, S., Cellinese, N., Curet, A., Denham, T., Kusimba, C.M., Latinis, K., Oka, R., Palka, J., Pobl, M.E.D., Pope, K.O., Williams, P.R., Haines, H., Staller, J.E., 2003. Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 10(4: 323-368. PDF

[4] Lentfer, C., 2002. Phytolith analysis of sediments from Kundil's section at Kuk, Papua New Guinea and evidence of Early Holocene banana cultivation. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March 2002.