Peter Bellwood

Peter Stafford Bellwood (born Leicester, England, 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.[1] He received his PhD from King's College in Cambridge in 1980. His areas of specialization include the prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology. He is currently involved in archaeological fieldwork projects in the Philippines and Vietnam.[2]

Professor Bellwood is the Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and editor of the Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, a member of the following editorial boards: Asian Perspectives; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory; Journal of Austronesian Studies; Journal of World Prehistory; Review of Archaeology; Sarawak Museum Journal. 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.[2] He aims to understand the movement of individuals of the past, rather than using a very narrow approach, which solely relies on material culture and crops.

Bellwood was involved with a fieldwork project in the northern Moluccas islands of eastern Indonesia, involving joint research with Indonesian scholars and Geoffrey Irwin of Auckland University. Their work yielded cave sequences covering the past 35,000 years, with very clear signals of an Austronesian presence commencing after 4000 BP.[3]

Bellwood conducted the ARC Discovery project from 2014 to 2017 in which they focused on the migration of humans with regards to the Asia Neolithic time period.[4] Professor Bellwood is now recently retired but he is still open to advise anyone anxious to do research in the East and Southeast Asia Neolithic especially relating to the migration of humans which is what he focuses on.[4]

Publications

Books
  • 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 (2004), 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.
  • Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Congress; Peter S. Bellwood (2001), Indo-Pacific prehistory: the Melaka papers, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Australian National University.
  • Peter S. Bellwood (1997), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-1907-1.
  • Bellwood, Peter S. (2000), Presejarah Kepulauan Indo-Malaysia. (Translation of Bellwood 1997)
  • 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; 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 (1988), Archaeological Research in South-eastern Sabah, Sabah Museum and State Archives.
  • Virendra N. Misra; Peter Bellwood (1985), Recent advances in Indo-Pacific prehistory: proceedings of the international symposium held at Poona, December 19–21, 1978, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-07512-2.
  • 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.
  • Peter S. Bellwood (1978), Archaeological research at Lake Mangakaware, Waikato, 1968-1970, University of Otago, Dept. of Anthropology.

Book chapters

Journals and magazines

Other publications

See also
  • Austronesian Hypothesis
  • Demic diffusion – interest on the impact of farming on human diffusion is a key research interest (see references above)

References
  1. "Professor Peter Bellwood". Alumni. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. Professor Peter Bellwood, School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University.
  3. Peter Bellwood, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University (archived from the original on 2009-09-16).
  4. "Professor Peter Bellwood".
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