Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago / Peter Bellwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellwood, Peter S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Indonesia.

Prehistoric peoples.

Prehistoric peoples--Malaysia.

Indonesia--Antiquities.

Indonesia.

Malaysia--Antiquities.

Malaysia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaii : University Press of Hawaii, 1997.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the field. Now that work has been fully revised and includes a complete up-to-date summary of the archaeology of the region (and relevant neighboring areas of China and Oceania), as well as a comprehensive discussion of new and important issues (such as the "Eve-Garden of Eden" hypothesis and its relevance to the Indo-Malaysian region) and recent advances in macrofamily linguistic classification. Moving north to south from northern Peninsular Malaysia to Timor and west to east from Sumatra to the Moluccas, Bellwood describes human prehistory from initial hominid settlement more than one million years ago to the eve of historical Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic cultures of the region. The archaeological record provides the central focus, but chapters also incorporate essential information from the paleoenvironmental sciences, biological anthropology, linguistics, and social anthropology. Bellwood approaches questions about past cultural and biological developments in the region from a multidisciplinary perspective. Historical issues given extended treatment include the significance of the Homo erectus populations of Java, the dispersal of the present Austronesian-speaking peoples of the region within the past 4,000 years, and the spread of metallurgy since 500 B.C. Bellwood also discusses relationships between the prehistoric populations of the archipelago and those of neighboring regions such as Australia, New Guinea, and mainland Asia.

Contents:

1 The Environmental Background:

Present and Past; I The Indo-Malaysian

Archipelago; II The Indo-Malaysian

Environment; III The Pleistocene and

Worldwide Changes in Environment;

IV The Environmental History of the

Indo-Malaysian Archipelago during the

Pliocene and Pleistocene; 2 Homo

erectus in Sundaland; I The

Antecedents; II Homo erectus in Java;

III Homo erectus in Southeast Asia:

The Cultural Evidence; IV Some

Conclusions on "Early" Industries; 3

Indo-Malaysians of the Last 40,000

Years; I The Modern Populations of the

Indo-Malaysian Region. II Genetic and

Cranial Data on the Differentiation of

Indo-Malaysian PopulationsIII Ancient

Populations of Homo sapiens in the

Indo-Malaysian Archipelago; 4 Recent

Indo-Malaysian Prehistory: According

to the Languages; I Language Families

in Southeast Asia and the Western

Pacific; II Some Linguistic Concepts; III

The Major Subgroups of Austronesian;

IV Dating the Austronesian Family

Tree; V Indo-Malaysian Linguistic

Prehistory: Some Possibilities; VI The

Papuan Languages and Their

Relationships with Indonesia; 5 The

Patterns of History and Ethnography; I

The Hunters and Gatherers. II The

Influences of India and IslamIII The

Indo-Malaysian Traditional Agricultural

Societies; IV Other Ethnographic

Features of Austronesian Societies; V

The Comparative Reconstruction of

Early Austronesian Society; 6 The

Hoabinhians and Their Island

Contemporaries; I Peninsular Malaysia

and Mainland Southeast Asia: The

Hoabinhian and Its Predecessors; II

Island Southeast Asia: The Later

Pebble and Flake Industries, with

Variations; III The Flake and Blade

Technocomplex of the Mid-Holocene;

7 The Archaeological Record of Early

Austronesian Communities; I The

Origins of Agriculture. II The

Beginnings of Austronesian

PrehistoryIII The Neolithic Phase in

Island Southeast Asia and Western

Oceania; IV An Integrated View of

Early Austronesian Expansion; V The

Stages of Austronesian Agricultural

Prehistory; 8 The Archaeological

Record of Early Agricultural

Communities in Peninsular Malaysia; I

The Significance of the Ban Kao

Culture and the Malay Peninsular

Neolithic; 9 The Early Metal Phase: A

Protohistoric Transition toward Supra-

Tribal Societies; I The Dong Son

Culture of Northern Vietnam; II The Sa

Huynh Culture of Southern Vietnam;

III The Role of India. IV Bronze

Artifacts of Dong Son and Local Styles

from the Sunda Islands and Peninsular

MalaysiaV The Slab Graves and Iron

Industry of Peninsular Malaysia; VI The

Early Metal Phase in Sumatra, Java,

and Bali; VII The Early Metal Phase in

East Malaysia and Eastern Indonesia;

10 A Final Overview; Notes;

References; Index; Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781921313110

1921313110

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459472