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Palaeoecology: Agriculture emerges from the calm

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New palaeoecological data from New Guinea reveal that climatic change at the Holocene boundary is unlikely to have driven early agriculture in the region. More nuanced understanding of how humans responded to past climate change could better inform our responses in the future.

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Figure 1: The sites of Kiowa and Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea.

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  1. Ian Lilley is in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.,

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Lilley, I. Palaeoecology: Agriculture emerges from the calm. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0085 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0085

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