First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia

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John Wiley & Sons, 10 kwi 2017 - 384
Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.
 

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Island Southeast Asia as a Canvas for Human Migration
11
Archaic Hominins
34
The Biological History of Homo sapiens in Island
86
Late Paleolithic Archaeology in Island Southeast Asia
131
Contents vii
150
The Early History of the Austronesian Language Family
181
in Island Southeast Asia
190
Further Questions of Austronesian Linguistic History
197
A Perspective from Indonesia
207
Neolithic Farmers and Sailors in Southern China
218
The Neolithic of East Malaysia and Indonesia
267
Contents
271
The Early Metal Age and Intercultural Connections
312
A Comparative
345
Index
352
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Contents ix
206

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Peter Bellwood is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, which he joined in 1973, retiring in 2013. He has undertaken archaeological research in Polynesia and Island Southeast Asia and is currently involved in projects in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. His most recent books include The Global Prehistory of Human Migration (edited, Wiley Blackwell, 2015), First Migrants (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (3rd edition, 2007), First Farmers (Wiley Blackwell, 2005), and Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History (co-edited, 2005). Peter Bellwood is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

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