New Guinea Research Paper
How have people in New Guinea Island adapted to tropical rainforests?
Introduction
Tropical rainforests are special geographical landscape around the world, which are covered with various species of plants and animals. The tropical rainforests are wet and hot. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C (64 °F) during all months of the year and average annual rainfall is no less than 168 cm. (Woodward, 1997)It is obvious very difficult and unsuitable for human to live in, although there are many advantageous conditions for the growth of plants and some animals. Here in Papua New Guinea live 7.5 million people, and the human presence on the island dates back at least 40,000 years.
Food Resource
The environment people can survive must possess …show more content…
In the early centuries, the material of the construction was out of the nature, such as leaves, wood. Now in the modern age, people still need to construct to fit the tough landform and the nature resource. The Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge was built in November 2005, which is a 470-metre-long suspension. The marvelous part of the bridge is that it is built crossing two cliffs, and 393m above the Hegigio River. Modern Papuan built this bridge to fill the groove of disadvantages from the nature. Since New Guinea is an island full of water resource, there are dams built in it. One of the Dam is Yonki Dam, which can contain 1,900,000 m³water. (Bridges.Highest, 2011)
Sexual Division of Labour
Because of the different physiological functions inside the males and females, people separately work in the tropical rainforest. Combined with the special characteristics of New Guinea area, women’s work involved washing sago flour, trap fishing, collecting firewood, making salt, cooking, sewing sago leaves into thatch, and cleaning around the house. Men’s tasks included warfare, felling and pounding the sago palm, hunting, catching fish by damming waterways and making houses and canoes. (Roscoe & Telban)So the most labour work in New Guinea carried out around the main crops Sago.
Introduction
Tropical rainforests are special geographical landscape around the world, which are covered with various species of plants and animals. The tropical rainforests are wet and hot. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C (64 °F) during all months of the year and average annual rainfall is no less than 168 cm. (Woodward, 1997)It is obvious very difficult and unsuitable for human to live in, although there are many advantageous conditions for the growth of plants and some animals. Here in Papua New Guinea live 7.5 million people, and the human presence on the island dates back at least 40,000 years.
Food Resource
The environment people can survive must possess …show more content…
In the early centuries, the material of the construction was out of the nature, such as leaves, wood. Now in the modern age, people still need to construct to fit the tough landform and the nature resource. The Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge was built in November 2005, which is a 470-metre-long suspension. The marvelous part of the bridge is that it is built crossing two cliffs, and 393m above the Hegigio River. Modern Papuan built this bridge to fill the groove of disadvantages from the nature. Since New Guinea is an island full of water resource, there are dams built in it. One of the Dam is Yonki Dam, which can contain 1,900,000 m³water. (Bridges.Highest, 2011)
Sexual Division of Labour
Because of the different physiological functions inside the males and females, people separately work in the tropical rainforest. Combined with the special characteristics of New Guinea area, women’s work involved washing sago flour, trap fishing, collecting firewood, making salt, cooking, sewing sago leaves into thatch, and cleaning around the house. Men’s tasks included warfare, felling and pounding the sago palm, hunting, catching fish by damming waterways and making houses and canoes. (Roscoe & Telban)So the most labour work in New Guinea carried out around the main crops Sago.