For Prebble et al. (1), the cultivation of introduced semiaquatic tropical taro (Colocasia esculenta) on cooler southern Pacific islands during the Polynesian “initial colonization period” (ICP) (1200 to 1500 CE) represents a “striking” Neolithic example of nonoptimal, marginal crop production. In that respect, ICP taro pollen from Ahuahu, a warm-temperate, northern New Zealand (NZ) offshore island, is especially notable (1). However, the suggestion that NZ wet-taro cultivation “may have been confined” to such offshore islands (ref. 1, p. 8828) overlooks important mainland archaeological evidence (Fig. 1).

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来自波利尼西亚最南端的新石器时代生产边际的进一步的湿法塔罗证据。

对于Prebble等。（1）在波利尼西亚的“初始殖民时期”（ICP）（公元1200至1500年），在较冷的南太平洋岛屿上引进的半水生热带芋头（Colocasia esculenta）的种植代表了新石器时代非最优，边际作物生产的例子。在这方面，来自新西兰北部近海温带岛Ahuahu的ICP芋头花粉尤其引人注目（1）。但是，关于将新西兰湿法塔罗种植“可能仅限于”这样的近海岛屿的建议（参考文献1，第8828页）却忽视了重要的大陆考古证据（图1）。