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Peter Bellwood is known for his decades of contributions to Asian and Pacific archaeology, responsible for formulating the fundamental chronological sequences of the region and situating these findings within broader contexts of human migrations, the ‘farming/language dispersal
Nov 30, 2004 · Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. He is the author of Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (co-edited with Colin Renfrew, 2003), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2nd edition 1997), The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (1987), and Man’s Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania (1986).
Aug 2, 2022 · “An entertaining introduction to deep human history that avoids Eurocentric perspectives and draws on Bellwood’s firsthand experience through six decades of transformation in archaeology.” —Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art “Peter Bellwood is the foremost expert on the spread of farming and peoples around the world.
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Peter Bellwood adalah seorang dosen arkeologi di School of Archaeology and Anthropology Australian National University (ANU) di Canberra, Australia. Bidang kepakarannya mencakup prasejarah Asia Tenggara dan Pasifik dari segi arkeologi, linguistik dan biologi , asal usul pertanian dan akibatnya dalam perkembangan kebudayaan, bahasa dan biologi, kaitan interdisipliner antara arkeologi, linguistik dan biologi manusia.
Archaeologist Peter Bellwood’s research explored how farming spread around the globe, the formation of Polynesian culture and human adaptation to island environments. In winning the 2021 International Cosmos Prize he joins an illustrious group of recipients which includes Sir David Attenborough and Dr Jane Goodall.
Peter Bellwood is known for his decades of contributions to Asian and Pacific archaeology, responsible for formulating the fundamental chronological sequences of the region and situating these findings within broader contexts of human migrations, the ‘farming/language dispersal hypothesis’, origins and spread of Austronesian cultures, and interdisciplinary approaches to prehistory.
