Agricultural Terracing at Nakauvadra, Viti Levu: A Late Prehistoric Irrigated Agrosystem in Fiji.

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

ROOT CROPS FORMED THE BASIS OF SUBSISTENCE in the majority of prehistoric Pacific Island agrosystems. Besides yams (Dioscorea spp.), the most important domesticate was taro (Colocasia esculenta), an ancient cultigen, and one inextricably linked with the development of Oceanian societies (Greenwell 1947; Spier 1951). This starchy tuber was the staple food in the diet of many Islanders, and was further infused with ceremonial and ritual significance. In Fiji, root crops such as taro are categorized in dietary typology as kakana dina (true food), and no meal is deemed complete ...

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