Peter Bellwood

Peter Stafford Bellwood (born Leicester, England, 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.[1] He received his BA and PhD from King's College Cambridge in 1966 and 1980 respectively. His areas of specialization include the prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; the worldwide origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments; and the prehistory of human migration. He is currently researching with Philip J. Piper and Lam My Dzung on an archaeological fieldwork project, funded by the Australian Research Council, on Neolithic sites in Vietnam.[2]

Professor Bellwood was the Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (1990 to 2009) and was formerly the editor of the Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (now the Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (Rome).[2] His books have been translated into French, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

Publications

Books (selected)
  • Peter Bellwood (2017), First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-1192-5154-5.
  • Peter Bellwood (2013), First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-1-4051-8908-8.
  • Peter Bellwood (2005), First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-631-20566-1.
  • Ian Glover; Peter S. Bellwood (2004), Southeast Asia: from prehistory to history, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-29777-6.
  • Peter S. Bellwood; Colin Renfrew (2002), Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-902937-20-5.
  • Peter S. Bellwood (1997), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-1907-1.
  • Peter S. Bellwood; James J. Fox; Darrell T. Tryon (1995), The Austronesians: historical and comparative perspectives, ANU E Press, ISBN 978-0-7315-2132-6.
  • Peter S. Bellwood (1979), Man's conquest of the Pacific: the prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-520103-1.
  • Peter S. Bellwood (1978), The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-02093-7.

See also

References
  1. "Professor Peter Bellwood". Alumni. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. Professor Peter Bellwood, School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University.
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