New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory : : Terra Australis 45 / / edited by Philip J. Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura, David Bulbeck.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bulbeck, David,; Matsumura, Hirofumi,; Piper, Philip J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Acton, A.C.T. : : ANU Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 384 pages)

"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

Professor Peter Bellwood's ongoing journey in archaeology / Hsiao-chun Hung -- Initial movements of modern humans in East Eurasia / Naruya Saitou, Timothy A. Jinam, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama and Katsushi Tokunaga -- Ancient DNA analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders / Ken-ichi Shinoda and Noboru Adachi -- Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers "gaomiao" in Hunan, China : the first of the two-layer model in the population history of East/Southeast Asia / Hirofumi Matsumura, Hsiao-chun Hung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Ya-feng Zhao, Gang He and Zhang Chi -- Using dental metrical analysis to determine the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene population history of Java / Sofwan Noerwidi -- Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation in the rainforests of East Kalimantan / Karina Atifin -- Understanding the Callao Cave depositional history / Armand Salvador Mijares -- Traditions of jars as mortuary containers in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago / David Bulbeck -- An Son ceramics in the Neolithic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia / Carmen Sarjeant -- The Ryukyu Islans and the northern frontier of prehistoric Austronesian settlement / Mark J. Hudson -- The western route migration : a second probable Neolithic diffusion to Indonesia / Truman Simanjuntak -- Enter the ceramic matrix : identifying the nature of the early Austronesian settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines / Helen Heath, Glenn R. Summerhayes and Hsiao-chun Hung -- Colonisation and/or cultural contacts : a discussion of the western Micronesian case / Michiko Intoh -- Integrating experimental archaeology, phytolith analysis and ethnographic fieldworkd to study the origin of farming in China / Tracey L.-D. Lu -- The origins and arrival of the earliest domestic animals in mainland and island Southeast Asia : a developing story of complexity / Philip J. Piper -- Historical linguistics and archaeology : an uneasy alliance / Robert Blust -- Were the first Lapita colonisers of remote Oceania farmers as well as foragers? / Andrew Pawley -- The sa Huynh culture in ancient regional trade networks : a comparative study of ornaments / Nguyen Kim Dung -- Austronesian migration to central Vietnam : crossing over the Iron Age Southeast Asian Sea / Mariko Yamagata and Hirofumi Matsumura -- Matting impressions from Lo Gach : materiality at floor level / Judith Cameron -- The prehistoric house : a missing factor in Southeast Asia / Charles Higham.