New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory: Terra Australis 45
Contributor(s)
J. Piper, Philip (editor)
Matsumura, Hirofumi (editor)
Bulbeck, David (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics, and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific.’ Mike T. Carson, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam
Keywords
archaeology; human biology; prehistory; southeast asia; linguistics; Before Present; Neolithic; Pottery; Terra AustralisDOI
10.22459/TA45.03.2017OCN
1030820029Publisher
ANU PressPublisher website
https://press.anu.edu.au/Publication date and place
2017Classification
South East Asia
Prehistory
Linguistics
Archaeology
Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution