New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory

Philip J. Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura, David Bulbeck

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781760460945
• eBook ISBN: 9781760460952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

'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 humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. 'Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific.' Mike T. Carson, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam

Table of contents

• Contributors
• Comment from Ian Lilley
• Preface
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Professor Peter Bellwood’s Ongoing Journey in Archaeology
• Initial Movements of Modern Humans in East Eurasia
• Ancient DNA Analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders
• Mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherers ‘Gaomiao’ in Hunan, China: The First of the Two-layer Model in the Population History of East/Southeast Asia
• Using Dental Metrical Analysis to Determine the Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene Population History of Java
• Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Human Occupation in the Rainforests of East Kalimantan
• Understanding the Callao Cave Depositional History
• Traditions of Jars as Mortuary Containers in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
• An Son Ceramics in the Neolithic Landscape of Mainland Southeast Asia
• The Ryukyu Islands and the Northern Frontier of Prehistoric Austronesian Settlement
• The Western Route Migration: A Second Probable Neolithic Diffusion to Indonesia
• Enter the Ceramic Matrix: Identifying the Nature of the Early Austronesian Settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines
• Colonisation and/or Cultural Contacts: A Discussion of the Western Micronesian Case
• Integrating Experimental Archaeology, Phytolith Analysis and Ethnographic Fieldwork to Study the Origin of Farming in China
• The Origins and Arrival of the Earliest Domestic Animals in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia: A Developing Story of Complexi y
• Historical Linguistics and Archaeology: An Uneasy Alliance
• Were the First Lapita Colonisers of Remote Oceania Farmers as Well as Foragers?
• The Sa Huynh Culture in Ancient Regional Trade Networks: A Comparative Study of Ornaments
• Austronesian Migration to Central Vietnam: Crossing over the Iron Age Southeast Asian Sea
• Matting Impressions from Lo Gach: Materiality at Floor Level
• The Prehistoric House: A Missing Factor in Southeast Asia