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New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory.

Piper, Philip J.

New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (404 pages) - Terra Australis Series . - Terra Australis Series .

Intro -- Contributors -- Comment from Ian Lilley -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Professor Peter Bellwood's Ongoing Journey in Archaeology -- Initial Movements of Modern Humans in East Eurasia -- Ancient DNA Analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders -- Mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherers 'Gaomiao' in Hunan, China: The First of the Two-layer Model in the Population History of East/Southeast Asia -- Using Dental Metrical Analysis to Determine the Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene Population History of Java -- Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Human Occupation in the Rainforests of East Kalimantan -- Understanding the Callao Cave Depositional History -- Traditions of Jars as Mortuary Containers in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago -- An Son Ceramics in the Neolithic Landscape of Mainland Southeast Asia -- The Ryukyu Islands and the Northern Frontier of Prehistoric Austronesian Settlement -- The Western Route Migration: A Second Probable Neolithic Diffusion to Indonesia -- Enter the Ceramic Matrix: Identifying the Nature of the Early Austronesian Settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines -- Colonisation and/or Cultural Contacts: A Discussion of the Western Micronesian Case -- Integrating Experimental Archaeology, Phytolith Analysis and Ethnographic Fieldwork to Study the Origin of Farming in China -- The Origins and Arrival of the Earliest Domestic Animals in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia: A Developing Story of Complexity -- Historical Linguistics and Archaeology: An Uneasy Alliance -- Were the First Lapita Colonisers of Remote Oceania Farmers as Well as Foragers? -- The Sa Huynh Culture in Ancient Regional Trade Networks: A Comparative Study of Ornaments -- Austronesian Migration to Central Vietnam: Crossing over the Iron Age Southeast Asian Sea -- Matting Impressions from Lo Gach: Materiality at Floor Level. The Prehistoric House: A Missing Factor in Southeast Asia.

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.

9781760460952


Archaeology.


Electronic books.

CC165.N49 2017

930.1

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