Professor Peter Bellwood
Emeritus Professor (Archaeology)
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology 2101
Research interests
Population migration during all periods of prehistory (world-wide); prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (world-wide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology. Currently involved in archaeological fieldwork projects in Vietnam with Philip Piper and Lam My Dzung.
Biography
Born Leicester, UK
PhD Cambridge (King's College) 1980
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1983)
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2016)
Honorary Fellow, Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (Associazione ISMEO), Rome (2017)
Publications
- Bellwood, P 2021, 'The Origin and Spread of the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples, 3000 BC to AD 1500', in (ed.), The Origin of the Austronesians, Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia, pp. 61-83.
- Barron, A, Datan, I, Bellwood, P et al. 2020, 'Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered', Antiquity, vol. 94, no. 377, pp. 1325-1336.
- Bellwood, P 2020, 'Some observations on the transeurasian language family, from the perspective of the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis', Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2.
- Calo, A, Bellwood, P, Lankton, J., Reinecke, A, Bawono, R A and B Prasetyo 2020, 'Trans-Asiatic exchange of glass, gold and bronze: analysis of finds from the late prehistoric Pangkung Paruk site, Bali'. Antiquity, vol. 94, pp. 110-126, Issue 373.
- Hung, Hsiao-chun and Bellwood, Peter (To appear). Archaeological correlations for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, Western Micronesia and Madagascar. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Lam, T, Nguyen, T, Tran, T et al 2020, 'Ru Diep and the Quynh Van culture of central Vietnam', Archaeological Research in Asia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100190
- Bellwood, P, ed., 2019, The Spice Islands in Prehistory: Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Oliveira, N, O'Connor, S & Bellwood, P 2019, 'Dong Son drums from Timor-Leste: Prehistoric bronze artefacts in Island Southeast Asia', Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 367, pp. 163-180.
- Bellwood, P 2018, 'Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. Stephen C. Jett. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2017, 538 pp. $49.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8173-1939-7', Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 281-284.
- Oxenham, M, Trinh, H, Willis, A et al. 2018, 'Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia', Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 364, pp. 940-957.
- Bellwood, P 2018, 'The search for ancient DNA heads east', Science, vol. 361, no. 6397, pp. 31-32pp.
- Bellwood, P 2018, 'Nicole Boivin, Remy Crassard & Michael Petraglia (ed.). Human dispersal and species movement. From prehistory to the present. [book review]', Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 363, pp. 822-823pp.
- Bellwood, P 2018, 'Tangatatau Rockshelter: The Evolution of an Eastern Polynesian Socio-Ecosystem', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 452-454.
- Pryce, T, Calo, A, Prasetyo, B et al 2018, 'Copper-base Metallurgy in Metal-Age Bali: Evidence from Gilimanuk, Manikliyu, Pacung, Pangkung Paruk and Sembiran', Archaeometry, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1271-1289.
- Castillo, C.C, Piper, P, Bellwood, P, Oxenham, M et al 2016, 'Hunter-gatherer specialization in the late Neolithic of southern Vietnam - The case of Rach Nui', Quaternary International, vol. In Press, pp. -.
- Deng, Zhenhua, Hsiao-chun Hung, Mike T. Carson, Peter Bellwood, Shu-ling Yang, Houyuan Lu. 2018, The first discovery of Neolithic rice remains in eastern Taiwan: phytolith evidence from the Chaolaiqiao site. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences vol. 10, no. 60, pp. 1477-1484. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-017-0471-z
- Bellwood, P 2017, First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ.
- Barron, A, Turner, M, Beeching, L et al. 2017, 'MicroCT reveals domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) within pottery sherds from early Neolithic sites (4150-3265 cal BP) in Southeast Asia', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7410 (5pp).
- Bellwood, P 2017, 'Taiwan and the Prehistory of the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples', in Da-wei Kuan (ed.), Ethnos, Geography and Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-environment Relations, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 3-33.
- Bellwood, P 2017, 'Migration et préhistoire', in Dominique Garcia; Hervé Le Bras (ed.), Archéologie des migrations, Editions La Decouverte, Paris, France, pp. 93-109pp.
- Bellwood, P 2017, 'Das Neolithikum', in Andreas Reinecke (ed.), Schätze der Archäologie Vietnams, Nunnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media, Germany, pp. 69-94.
- Piper, P, Nguyen, K, Tran, T et al 2017, 'The Neolithic settlement of Loc Giang on the Vam Co Dong River, southern Vietnam and its broader regional context', Archaeological Research in Asia, vol. 10, pp. 32-47pp.
- Bellwood, P 2016, 'Austronesian Studies in 2016: Where are we now?', in Bagyo Prasetyo, Titi Surti Nastiti, Truman Simanjuntak (ed.), Austronesian Diaspora - A New Perspective, Gadjah Mada University Press, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, pp. 7-21.
- Bellwood, P 2015, 'Ban Non Wat: Crucial research, but is it too soon for certainty?', Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 347, pp. 1224-1226.
- Bellwood, P 2015, 'Cultural evolution: phylogeny versus reticulation', in James D Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 394-400.
- Oxenham, M, Piper, P, Bellwood, P et al 2015, 'Emergence and diversification of the neolithic in Southern Vietnam: insights from coastal Rach Nui', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 309-338.
- Bellwood, P 2015, 'Migration and the Origins of Homo sapiens', in Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, Ted Goebel, Hiroyuki Sato, Akira Ono (ed.), Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia, Texas A&M University, United States of America, pp. 51-58.
- Bellwood, P 2015, 'Language Families, Archaeology and History of', in James D Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, pp. 337-343pp.
- Bellwood, P, ed., 2015, The Global Prehistory of Human Migration, Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA, USA, Osford and Chichester, UK.
- Bellwood, P 2015, Book review, Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 343, pp. 235-236.
- Bellwood, P 2015, Vietnam’s place in the prehistory of Eastern Asia – a multidisciplinary perspective on the Neolithic' , Perspectives on the Archaeology of Vietnam, ed. Andreas Reinecke, German Archaeological Institute - Berlin/ Bonn, Bonn, pp. 47-80 (in English and Vietnamese).
- Calo, A, Prasetyo, B, Bellwood, P, Lankton, JW, Gratuze, B, Pryce, TO, Reinecke, A, Leusch, V, Schenk, H, Wood, R, Bawono, RA, Gede, IDK, Citha Yuliati, NLK, Fenner, J, Reepmeyer, C, Castillo, C, Carter, AK, 2015, 'Sembiran and Pacung on the north coast of Bali: a strategic crossroads for early trans-Asiatic exchange', Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 344, pp. 378-396.
- Pryce, T, Baron, S, Bellwood, P et al 2014, 'More questions than answers: The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project 2009-2012', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 273-294.
- Piper, P, Campos, F, Ngoc Kinh, D et al 2014, 'Early Evidence for Pig and Dog Husbandry from the Neolithic Site of An Son, Southern Vietnam', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 68-78.
- Anggraeni, Simanjuntak T, Bellwood, P & Piper, P 2014, 'Neolithic foundations in the Karama Valley, West Sulawesi, Indonesia', Antiquity, vol. 88, no. 341, pp. 740-756.
- Bellwood, P 2013, First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective, Wiley Blackwell, London.
- Bellwood, P 2013, 'Human migrations and the histories of major language families', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 87-95pp.
- Bellwood, P 2013, 'Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 1-6pp.
- Bellwood, P 2013, 'Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 79-86pp.
- Bellwood, P 2013, 'Southeast Asian islands: archaeology', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 284-292pp.
- Bellwood, P 2013, 'Austronesian migration, 3500 BC to 1500 AD', in (ed.), Philippines, an archipelago of exchange, Actes Sud, Paris, pp. 40-49pp.
- Bellwood, P & Hiscock, P 2013, 'Australia and the Pacific Basin during the Holocene', in Scarre, C. (ed.), The human past: world prehistory and the development of human societies, Thames and Hudson, United Kingdom, pp. 264-305.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2013, 'The Batanes Islands, Their First Observers, and Previous Archaeology', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-8.
- Stevenson, J & Bellwood, P 2013, 'Appendix: Archaeobotanical and Palaeoenvironmental Observations', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 241-242.
- Bellwood, P, Anderson, A & Dizon, E 2013, 'Archaeological Excavations on Batan Island', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 31-45.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2013, 'The Batanes Islands and the Prehistory of Island Southeast Asia', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 235-239.
- Bellwood, P, Dizon, E & De Leon, A 2013, 'The Batanes Pottery Sequence, 2500 BC to Recent', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 77-113.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2013, 'The Chronology of Batanes Prehistory', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 67-75.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2013, 'Other Portable Artefacts from the Batanes Sites', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 123-148.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E, eds, 2013, 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2013, 'Archaeological Investigations at Savidug, Sabtang Island', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 47-65.
- Bellwood, P, Dizon, E & Mijares, A 2013, 'Archaeological Excavations on Itbayat and Siayan Islands', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 9-29.
- Amano, N, Piper, P, Hung, H.C. and Bellwood, P. 2013. 'Introduced Domestic Animals in the Neolithic and Metal Age of the Philippines: Evidence From Nagsabaran, Northern Luzon' Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 317-335.
- Bellwood, P & Hung, H.C. 2013, 'The dispersals of early food producers from Southern China into Southeast Asia', in Hemudu Museum (ed.), Hemudu Culture International Forum, China Modern Economic Publishing House, Beijing, China, pp. 95-107 (in Chinese); pp 160-175 (in English).
- Carson, M.T., H.C. Hung, G. Summerhayes, and P. Bellwood 2013, 'The Pottery Trail from Southeast Asia to Remote Oceania', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 17-36.
- Bellwood, P 2012, 'How and Why Did Agriculture Spread?', in P Gepts, T Famula, R Bettinger, S Brush, A Damania, P McGuire (ed.), Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution and Sustainability, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 160-189.
- Bellwood, P 2012, 'Comment on, South Asia-perennial backwater or object of biased assessment: A Discussion Based on current Archaeological, Anthropological, and Genetic evidence', Asian Perspectives, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 128-129.
- Hung, H.C., M.T. Carson, & P. Bellwood 2012, 'Earliest settlement in the Marianas - A response', Antiquity, vol. 86, no. 333, pp. 910-914.
- Bellwood, P 2011, 'Holocene Population History in the Pacific Region as a Model for Worldwide Food Producer Dispersals', Current Anthropology, vol. 52, no. S4, pp. S363-S378.
- Bellwood, P, Dung, N, Yamagata, M et al 2011, 'The Man Bac Burial Pottery - An Illustrated Corpus of the Whole Vessels from the Burials in Cultural Unit III', in Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung (ed.), Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 169-186.
- Bellwood, P 2011, 'The checkered prehistory of rice movement southwards as a domesticated cereal-from the Yangzi to the Equator', Rice, vol. 4, no. 3-4, pp. 93-103.
- Bellwood, P 2011, 'Comment on E. Holman et al., Automated dating of the world's language families based on lexical similarity', Current Anthropology, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 841-875.
- Bellwood, P 2011, 'La dispersione dei primi agricoltori e delle famiglie linguistiche in Estremo Oriente', in Roberto Ciarla, Maurizio Scarpari (ed.), La Cina: I Preistoria e origini della civilta cinese, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino, Italy, pp. 369-396.
- Bellwood, P, Oxenham, M, Chi Hoang, B et al. 2011, 'An Son and the neolithic of southern Vietnam', Asian Perspectives, vol. 50, no. 1-2, pp. 144-175.
- Bellwood, P, H.C.Hung & Y. lizuka 2011, 'Taiwan Jade in the Philippines: 3,000 Years of Trade and Long-distance Interaction', in Purissima Benitez-Johannot (ed.), Paths of Origins: The Austronesian Heritage in the Collections of the National Museum of the Philippines,the Museum Nasional Indonesia,and the Netherlands Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, ArtPostAsia, Singapore, pp. 31-41.
- Bellwood, P., G. Chambers, M. Ross and H.C. Hung 2011, 'Are 'Cultures' Inherited? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Origins and Migrations of Austronesian-Speaking Peoples Prior to 1000 BC', in Benjamin W. Roberts and Marc Vander Linden (ed.), Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission, Springer, New York, pp. 321-354.
- Hung, H.C., Carson, M, Bellwood, P et al 2011, 'The first settlement of Remote Oceania:from the Philippines to the Marianas', Antiquity, vol. 85, no. 329, pp. 909-926.
- Mijares, A, Detroit, F, Piper, P et al 2010, 'New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 123-132.
- Bellwood, P 2010, 'Language families and the history of human migration', in John Bowden, Nikolaus P Himmelmann & Malcolm Ross (ed.), A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, ACT, pp. 79-90.
- Mijares, A, Detroit, F, Piper, P et al 2010, 'New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 123-132.
- Hung, H.C. & Bellwood, P. 2010, 'Movement of Raw Materials and manufactured goods across the South China Sea after 500 BCE: from Taiwan to Thailand, and back', in Berenice Bellina, Elisabeth A Bacus, Thomas Oliver Pryce, and Jan Wisseman Christie (eds.), 50 Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Glover, River Books, Bangkok, pp. 235-245.
- Piper, P., H.C. Hung, Campos, F et al 2009, 'A 4000 year-old introduction of domestic pigs into the Philippine Archipelago: implications for understanding routes of human migration through Island Southeast Asia and Wallacea', Antiquity, vol. 83, pp. 687-695.
- Piper, P, Hung, H, Campos, F et al 2009, 'A 4000 year-old introduction of domestic pigs into the Philippine Archipelago: implications for understanding routes of human migration through Island Southeast Asia and Wallacea', Antiquity, vol. 83, pp. 687-695.
- Bellwood, P & Hiscock, P 2009, 'Holocene Australia and the Pacific Basin', in Chris Scarre (ed.), The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (2nd ed), Thames and Hudson, Australia, pp. 264-305.
- Bellwood, P 2009, 'Early Farmers: Issues of Spread and Migration with respect to the Indian Subcontinent', in T Osada (ed.), Linguistics, Archaeology and Human Past in South Asia (2nd ed), Manohar Publishers and Distributors, india, pp. 55-69.
- Bellwood, P 2009, 'The Dispersals of Established Food-producing Populations: (Rethinking the origins of Agriculture)', Current Anthropology, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 621-626, 707-708.
- Bellwood, P 2009, 'La diffusion des populations d'agriculteurs dans le monde', in Jean-Paul Demoule (ed.), La Revolution Neolithique dans le Monde, CNRS Editions, Paris, France, pp. 239-262.
- Bellwood, P, Cameron, J & Pawlik, A (eds.), 2009, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 29.
- Cameron, J., Bellwood, P., Bui Van Liem, Nguyen Viet, 2009, 'Kêt Qua Nghiên Cuu Vai Trong Van Hoa Dông Son Tai Di Tich Dông Xa (Hung Yên) Trong Hop Tac Khoa Hoc Viê t Nam-Uc Lân Thu Nhât'. Khao Co Hoc 2: 20-25 (In Vietnamese). Khao Co Hoc 2, pp. 20-25. (in Vietnamese).
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2008, 'Austronesian Cultural origins: out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to Western Polynesia', in Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros and Marie Lin (ed.), Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Great Britain, pp. 23-39.
- Bellwood, P 2008, 'Archaeology and the origins of Language Families', in R Alexander Bentley, Herbert DG Maschner, C Chippindale (ed.), Handbook of Archaeological Theories, AltaMira Press, Plymouth, UK, pp. 225-243.
- Bellwood, P 2008, 'Die erste reiche Ernte', in James A Robinson and Klaus Weigandt (ed.), Die Ursprünge der modernen Welt: Geschichte im wissenschftlichen Vergleich, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 166-213.
- Bellwood, P & Oxenham, M 2008, 'The expansions of farming societies and the role of the Neolithic Demographic Transition', in J. P. Bocquet-Appel and O. Bar-Yosef (ed.), The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 13-34.
- Bellwood, P, Cameron, J, Huffer, D (eds.) 2008, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 28 Proceedings of the 18th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Manila, Philippines.
- Bellwood, P, Stevenson, J, Dizon, E et al 2008, 'Where are the Neolithic landscapes of Ilocos Norte?', Hukay, vol. 13, pp. 25-38.
- Szabo, K, Brumm, A & Bellwood, P 2007, 'Shell Artefact Production at 32,000-28,000 BP in Island Southeast Asia: Thinking across Media?', Current Anthropology, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 701-723.
- Bellwood, P 2007, 'Review Feature: First Farmers the Origin of Agricultural Societies', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 87-109.
- Bellwood, P 2007, 'A la recherche de liens ancestraux a travers le Pacifique (Tracing ancestral connections across the pacific)', in S. Cochrane (ed.), Across Oceans and Time Art in the contemporary Pacific (Chinese, French, English), Kaosiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, pp. 32-41.
- Bellwood, P 2007, 'Understanding the Neolithic in Northern India', First Farmers in Global Perspective, ed. Rakesh Tewari, Kripa Shanker Saraswat, Girish Chandra Singh, U P State Archaeology Department, Uttar Pradesh, pp. 331-346.
- Bellwood, P 2007, 'Southeast China and the Prehistory of the Austronesians', in Tianlong Jiao (ed.), Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific, Bishop Museum Press, USA, pp. 36-53.
- Bellwood, P, Cameron, J, Bui Van Liem, Nguyen Viet, 2007, 'Ancient Boats, Boat Timbers, and Locked Mortise-and-Tenon Joints from Bronze/Iron-Age Northern Vietnam', International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 2-20.
- Hung, H.C., Iizuka, Y, Bellwood, P et al 2007, 'Ancient jades map 3,000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104, no. 50, pp. 19745-19750.
- Iizuka, Y., H.C. Hung & P. Bellwood 2007, 'A Noninvasive Mineralogical Study of Nephrite Artifacts from the Philippines and Surroundings: The Distribution of Taiwan Nephrite and the Implications for Island Southeast Asian Archaeology', in Janet E. Douglas, Paul Jett & John Winter (ed.), Scientific Research on the Sculptural Arts of Asia Proceedings of the third Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallary of Art, Archetype Publications Ltd, London, pp. 12-19.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'The Dispersal of Neolithic Cultures from China into Island Southeast Asia: Stand Stills, Slow Moves, and fast Spreads', in Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (ed.), Prehistoric Archaeology of South China and Southeast Asia Proceedings of the International Conference to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Excavation of Zengpiyan, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 223-34.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'Early Farmers: Issues of Spread and Migration with respect to the Indian Subcontinent', Pre-Symposium of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature and ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable 2005, ed. Toshiki Osada, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 58-72.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'The Dispersal of Neolithic Cultures from China into Island Southeast Asia: Stand Stills, Slow Moves, and fast Spreads', International Conference to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the excavation of Zengpiyan, ed. Fun Jan, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 223-234.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'Borneo as the homeland of Malay? The perpective from Archaeology', in James T Collins, Awang Sariyan (ed.), Borneo and the Homeland of the Malays: four Essays, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 45-63.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'The Early Movements of Austronesian Peoples in the Indonesian Region', in Truman Simunjantuk, Ingrid Pojoh, Mohammed Hisyam (ed.), Austronesian diaspora and the Ethogeneses of People in the Indonesian Archipelago, LIPI Press, Jakarta, pp. 61-82.
- Bellwood, P 2006, 'Asian Farming Diasporas? Agriculture, Languages, and Genes in China and Southeast Asia', in Miriam T. Stark (ed.), Archaeology of Asia, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, pp. 97-118.
- Hung, H.C., Y. Iizuka & P. Bellwood 2006, 'Taiwan Jade in the Context of Southeast Asian Archaeology', in Elizabeth A Bacus, Ian Glover (eds.), Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, NIAS Press, Singapore, pp. 203-215.
- Bellwood, P & Hiscock, P 2005, 'Australia and the Austronesians', in Chris Scarre (ed.), The Human Past, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, pp. 264-305.
- Bellwood, P 2005, 'Mind the Gap', Asian Perspectives, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 247-248.
- Bellwood, P & Sanchez-Mazas, A 2005, 'Human Migrations in Continental East Asia and Taiwan: Genetic, Linguistic, and Archaeological Evidence', Current Anthropology, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 480-484.
- Bellwood, P & Diamond, J 2005, 'On explicit replacement models in Island Southeast Asia: a reply to Stephen Oppenheimer', World Archaeology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 503-506.
- Bellwood, P 2005, 'Examining the Farming Language Dispersal Hypothesis in the East Asian Context', in L. Sagart, R. Blench & A.Sanchez-Mazas (ed.), The Peopling of East Asia: putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics, Routledge Curzon, Oxford, pp. 17-30.
- Bellwood, P 2005, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Malden, USA.
- Bellwood, P & White, P 2005, 'Domesticated Pigs in Eastern Indonesia/Response', Science, vol. 309, no. 5733, p. 381.
- Bellwood, P 2005, 'Coastal South China, Taiwan, And the Prehistory of The Austronesians', Archaeology of Southeast Coastal Islands of China Conference 2005, ed. Cheng Cheng-yu and Pan Jian-guo, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, pp. 1-22.
- Bellwood, P & Dizon, E 2005, 'The Batanes archaeological project and the Out of Taiwan hypothesis for Austronesian dispersal', Journal of Austronesian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-32.
- Bellwood, P, Cameron, J & Keates, S (eds.) 2005, 'Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association: Indo-Pacific Prehistory Volume 25: The Taipei Papers (Volume 3), 25'.
- Iizuka, Y, P. Bellwood,I. Datan & H.C.Hung 2005, 'Mineralogical studies of the Niah West Mouth Lingling-o', Sarawak Museum Journal , vol. 61, no. 82 (new series), pp. 19-29.
- Iizuka, Y., P. Bellwood, H.C. Hung et al 2005, 'A non-destructive mineralogical study of nephritic artifacts from Itbayat Island, Batanes, northern Philippines', Journal of Austronesian Studies , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 84-107.
- Bellwood, P 2004, 'The origins and dispersals of agricultural communities in Southeast Asia', in Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (ed.), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 21-40.
- Bellwood, P, Fox, J & Tryon, D 2004, 'The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 1-16.
- Bellwood, P, Fox, J & Tryon, D, eds, 2004, The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia.
- Bellwood, P 2004, 'Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 102-118.
- Bellwood, P 2004, 'Colin Renfrews Emerging Synthesis: Farming, Languages and Genes as Viewed from the Antipodes', in Martin Jones (ed.), Traces of Ancestry: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK, pp. 31-39.
- Glover, I & Bellwood, P 2004, 'Retrospect and Prospect', in Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (ed.), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 337-345.
- Glover, I & Bellwood, P 2004, 'Introduction', in Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (ed.), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 1-3.
- Glover, I & Bellwood, P 2004, 'Southeast Asia: foundations for an archaeological history', in Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (ed.), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 4-20.
- Glover, I & Bellwood, P, eds, 2004, Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London.
- Pasveer, J & Bellwood, P 2004, 'Prehistoric bone artefacts from the northern Moluccas, Indonesia', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 301-360.
- Bellwood, P 2004, 'Aslian, Austronesian, Malayic: Suggestions from the Archaeological Record', in Victor Paz (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology, University of the Philippines Press, The Philippines, pp. 347-365.
- Mahirta, M, Aplin, K, Bulbeck, F et al 2004, 'Pia Hudale Rockshelter: A terminal Pleistocene occupation site on Roti Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 361-394.
- Bellwood, P & Bowdery, D 2004, 'Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Taipei Papers (Volume 2) - Editorial', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 24, pp. 1-1.
- Diamond, J & Bellwood, P 2003, 'Farmers and their languages: The first expansions', Science, vol. 300, no. 5619, pp. 597-603.
- Bellwood, P & Bowdery, D, eds, 2003, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 23 - Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Taipei Papers (Vol 1), Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra.
- Szabo, K, Ramirez, H, Anderson, A et al 2003, 'Prehistoric subsistence strategies on the Batanes Islands, Northern Phillippines', Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2002, ed. Peter Bellwood, Doreen Bowdery, Richard Pearson & Judy Voelker, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra, pp. 163-172.
- Bellwood, P, Stevenson, J, Anderson, A et al 2003, 'Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research in the Batanes and Ilocos Norte Provinces, Northern Philippines', Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2002, ed. Peter Bellwood, Doreen Bowdery, Richard Pearson & Judy Voelker, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra, pp. 141-162.
- Bellwood, P 2002, 'Phylogeny in Action: A review of Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: and essay in Historical Anthropology', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 174-176.
- Bellwood, P 2002, 'Lapita Ascendant', Review of Archaeology, The, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-4.
- Paddayya, K & Bellwood, P 2002, 'South and Southeast Asia', in B. Cunliffe, W. Davies, and C. Renfrew (ed.), Archaeology: The widening debate, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 295-334.
- Bellwood, P & Renfrew, C 2002, 'Postscript - Concluding Observations', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 467-475.
- Bellwood, P 2002, 'Editorial: the Melaka Papers, Volume 6', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 22, pp. 1-2.
- Bellwood, P & Renfrew, C, eds, 2002, Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.
- Bellwood, P 2002, 'Farmers, Foragers, Languages, Genes: the Genesis of Agricultural Societies', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 17-31.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Archaeology and the historical determinants of punctuation in language family origins', in Aikenvald, A. Dixon, R.M.W. (ed.), Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance-Problems in Comparative Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 27-43.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Polynesian Prehistory and the Rest of Mankind', Pacific 2000: 5th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, ed. C. Stevenson, G. Lee F. J. Morin, Easter Island Foundation, Los Osos, CA, pp. 11-25.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Cultural Evolution: Phylogeny versus Reticulation', in Neil J Smelser, Paul B Baltes (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 3052-3057pp.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Early agriculturalist population diasporas? Farming, languages and genes', Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 30, pp. 181-207.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Comment on Terrell, Kelly and Rainbird, Foregone conclusions?', Current Anthropology, vol. 42, pp. 107-108.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Southeast Asia Neolithic and Early Bronze', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 287-306pp.
- Peregrine, P & Bellwood, P 2001, 'Southeast Asia Upper Palaeolithic', in Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Prehistory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, pp. 307-309pp.
- Bellwood, P, Bowdery, D, Glover, I et al 2001, 'Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Melaka Papers Volume 5', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 21.
- Bellwood, P 2001, 'Archaeology and the History of Languages', in Neil J Smelser, Paul B Baltes (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 617-622pp.
- Bellwood, P 2000, 'The Time Depth of Major Language Families: an Archaeologists Perspective', in Renfrew, C.; McMahon, A.; Trask, L. (ed.), Time Depth in Historical Linguistics Vol 1, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 109-140.
- Bellwood, P, Gunadi, N & Irwin, G 2000, 'The Northern Moluccas as a crossroads between Indonesia and the Pacific', in Sudaryanto; Rambadeta, A.H. (ed.), Antar Hubungan Bahasa dan Budaya di Kawasan Non-Austronesia, Pusat Studi Asia Pasifik, Yogyakarta, pp. 195-254.
- Sayavongkhamdy, T & Bellwood, P 2000, 'Recent archaeological research in Laos', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 19, pp. 101-107.
- Bellwood, P 2000, 'Editorial', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 20, pp. 1-2.
- Bellwood, P 2000, 'Some thoughts on understanding the human colonization of the Pacific', People and Culture in Oceania, vol. 20, pp. 5-17.
- Bellwood, P 2000, 'Footsteps from Asia: the peopling of the Pacific', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 53-58pp.
- Bellwood, P 2000, 'Who carved the statues of Easter Island?', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 123pp.
- Bellwood, P & Spriggs, M 1999, 'Invited commentary on Helen Leach's Intensification in the Pacific: a Critique of the Archaeological Criteria and their Application', Current Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 324-5.
- Bellwood, P, Irwin, G, Nitihaminoto, G et al. 1999, 'Prehistoric relations between Island Southeast Asia and Oceania: recent archaeological investigations in the Northern Moluccas', in Galipaud, J.C.; Lilley, I. (ed.), The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP: Colonisation and Transformations/Le Pacifique de 5000 a 2000 avant le present: Supplements a l'histoire d'une colonisation, IRD Editions, Paris, pp. 363-374.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- The Missing Millennium and the Origins of Agriculture in Southeast Asia (Secondary Investigator)
- Human populations in the Karama Valley, c.3500 BP, and the Neolithic Settlement of Eastern Indonesia and the Pacific (Secondary Investigator)
- Landscape, resources and human migration during the Southeast Asian Neolithic (Primary Investigator)
- The Archaeological and Biological Foundations of Southeast Asia, 2500 to 1000 BC (Primary Investigator)
- The Role of Taiwan in the Creation of Southeast Asian Peoples and Cultures, 2500BC to AD500 (Primary Investigator)
- A study of ancient jade trading networks in prehistoric southern China and Southeast Asia, 3000 BC to AD 500 (Secondary Investigator)
- The Creation of Southeast Asian Peoples and Cultures, 3500 BC to AD 500 (Primary Investigator)
