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ARCHAEOLOGY IN OCEANIA
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 82-92Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2006.tb00611.x
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Micronesia; social organization; subsistence; breadfruit; culture area
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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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