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Abstract
By the New Guinea Highlands we mean the high valleys within the central cordillera of the island between about 1300 and 2500 m, which are the home of relatively large populations living in deforested environments at densities of up to 300 per km2. Our focus is the better-known Papua New Guinea Highlands, which are continuous across Southern Highlands, Enga, Western Highlands, Simbu, and Eastern Highlands Provinces; but from time to time we look beyond the Indonesian border to Iriani Jaya, where, separated from the above by lightly peopled mountain country, are the Baliem and Western Dani and, beyond them, the Kapauku of the Paniai lakes. In a sense, agriculture has been involved in most discussion of sociocultural development in this region. At European contact, everywhere within the last 60 years, the Indo-Pacific staples of lowland New Guinea, such as Colocasia
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