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 (397 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moving from northern Peninsular Malaysia to Timor and from Sumatra to the Moluccas, this text examines human prehistory from hominid settlement to the historical Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic cultures of the region. Topics include the archaeology of the area and macro-family linguistic classification.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 The Environmental Background: Present and Past

2 Homo erectus in Sundaland

3 Indo-Malaysians of the Last 40,000 Years

4 Recent Indo-Malaysian Prehistory: According to the Languages

5 The Patterns of History and Ethnography

6 The Hoabinhians and Their Island Contemporaries

7 The Archaeological Record of Early Austronesian Communities

8 The Archaeological Record of Early Agricultural Communities in Peninsular Malaysia

9 The Early Metal Phase: A Protohistoric Transition toward Supra-Tribal Societies

10 A Final Overview

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-372) and index.

ISBN:

0-8248-7468-4

0-585-33106-5

OCLC:

658482603