First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia - Softcover

Bellwood, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119251559 ISBN 13: 9781119251552

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017

Synopsis

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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Review:

"In First Islanders, Peter Bellwood without doubt the leading authority on the archaeology and prehistory of Island Southeast Asia offers up an engaging synthesis of the grand sweep of human history in this island world, from the arrival of early hominins one million years ago, through the development of agriculture and the Austronesian expansion, up to the early Metal Age. Bellwood brings the fascinating prehistory of this vast region to life as no other archaeologist can. First Islanders belongs on the bookshelf of every scholar of world prehistory." – Patrick V. Kirch, University of California Berkeley

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1119251559
• ISBN 13: 9781119251552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384