New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory

"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 human...

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Other Authors: Piper, Philip J. (Editor), Matsumura, Hirofumi (Editor), Bulbeck, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. ANU Press 2017, [2017]©2017
Series:Terra Australis
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • An Son ceramics in the Neolithic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia / Carmen Sarjeant
  • The Ryukyu Islans and the northern frontier of prehistoric Austronesian settlement / Mark J. Hudson
  • The western route migration : a second probable Neolithic diffusion to Indonesia / Truman Simanjuntak
  • Enter the ceramic matrix : identifying the nature of the early Austronesian settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines / Helen Heath, Glenn R. Summerhayes and Hsiao-chun Hung
  • Colonisation and/or cultural contacts : a discussion of the western Micronesian case / Michiko Intoh
  • Integrating experimental archaeology, phytolith analysis and ethnographic fieldworkd to study the origin of farming in China / Tracey L.-D. Lu
  • The origins and arrival of the earliest domestic animals in mainland and island Southeast Asia : a developing story of complexity / Philip J. Piper
  • Historical linguistics and archaeology : an uneasy alliance / Robert Blust
  • Were the first Lapita colonisers of remote Oceania farmers as well as foragers? / Andrew Pawley
  • The sa Huynh culture in ancient regional trade networks : a comparative study of ornaments / Nguyen Kim Dung
  • Austronesian migration to central Vietnam : crossing over the Iron Age Southeast Asian Sea / Mariko Yamagata and Hirofumi Matsumura
  • Matting impressions from Lo Gach : materiality at floor level / Judith Cameron
  • The prehistoric house : a missing factor in Southeast Asia / Charles Higham
  • Professor Peter Bellwood's ongoing journey in archaeology / Hsiao-chun Hung
  • Initial movements of modern humans in East Eurasia / Naruya Saitou, Timothy A. Jinam, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama and Katsushi Tokunaga
  • Ancient DNA analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders / Ken-ichi Shinoda and Noboru Adachi
  • Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers "gaomiao" in Hunan, China : the first of the two-layer model in the population history of East/Southeast Asia / Hirofumi Matsumura, Hsiao-chun Hung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Ya-feng Zhao, Gang He and Zhang Chi
  • Using dental metrical analysis to determine the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene population history of Java / Sofwan Noerwidi
  • Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation in the rainforests of East Kalimantan / Karina Atifin
  • Understanding the Callao Cave depositional history / Armand Salvador Mijares
  • Traditions of jars as mortuary containers in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago / David Bulbeck
  • Includes bibliographical references