Plants and the migrations of Pacific peoples : a symposium / edited by Jacques Barrau.

Facsimilie printed [in 2021?] of the 1966 printing of symposium proceedings of the "Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Hawaii, Honolulu ... 21 August to 6 September, 1961, and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, and the University of Hawaii."

Second printing with new Foreword, 1966, Bishop Museum Press [Honolulu]. First edition, 1963.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Jacques Barrau -- Movement of people and ideas across the Pacific / George F. Carter -- Prehistoric voyages as agencies for Melanesian and South American plant and animal dispersal to Polynesia / Thor Heyerdahl -- Vernacular plant names in Melanesia: some examples from Northern New Caledonia / A.G. Haudricourt -- Proto-Melanesian plant names / Ann Chowning -- Correlations of plant patterns and population migration into the Australian New Guinea highlands / R.G. Robbins -- The role of pandanus in the culture of the Marshall Islands / Benjamin C. Stone -- Appendix: Marshallese cultivar index and distribution of the names by atoll / Benjamin C. Stone -- The migration of rice from mainland Southeast Asia into Indonesia / J.E. Spencer -- Rice cultivation of the ancient Mariana Islanders / Ichiro Yawata -- Sweet-potato variation and its relation to human migration in the Pacific / D.E. Yen -- The origin of the sweet potato plant / Ichizo Nishiyama -- The Oceanian-African hypotheses and the sweet potato / Harold C. Conklin.

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