ARBORICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE IN COASTAL PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA

A central issue in the regional prehistory over the Transition - and t herefore of this whole set of papers - is the different life-ways that came to be followed in Papua New Guinea and in Australia itself; the one became agricultural, the other hunter-gatherer There is more to th e story than that divide; this is a story of a human and created world , rather than a simple response to directing environment.