Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the field. Now that work has been fully revised and includes a complete up-to-date summary of the archaeology of th...

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Autor principal: Bellwood, Peter S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu, Hawaii : University Press of Hawaii 1997.
Edición:Revised edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423724006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 The Environmental Background:
  • Present and Past; I The Indo-Malaysian
  • Archipelago; II The Indo-Malaysian
  • Environment; III The Pleistocene and
  • Worldwide Changes in Environment;
  • IV The Environmental History of the
  • Indo-Malaysian Archipelago during the
  • Pliocene and Pleistocene; 2 Homo
  • erectus in Sundaland; I The
  • Antecedents; II Homo erectus in Java;
  • III Homo erectus in Southeast Asia:
  • The Cultural Evidence; IV Some
  • Conclusions on "Early" Industries; 3
  • Indo-Malaysians of the Last 40,000
  • Years; I The Modern Populations of the
  • Indo-Malaysian Region. II Genetic and
  • Cranial Data on the Differentiation of
  • Indo-Malaysian PopulationsIII Ancient
  • Populations of Homo sapiens in the
  • Indo-Malaysian Archipelago; 4 Recent
  • Indo-Malaysian Prehistory: According
  • to the Languages; I Language Families
  • in Southeast Asia and the Western
  • Pacific; II Some Linguistic Concepts; III
  • The Major Subgroups of Austronesian;
  • IV Dating the Austronesian Family
  • Tree; V Indo-Malaysian Linguistic
  • Prehistory: Some Possibilities; VI The
  • Papuan Languages and Their
  • Relationships with Indonesia; 5 The
  • Patterns of History and Ethnography; I
  • The Hunters and Gatherers. II The
  • Influences of India and IslamIII The
  • Indo-Malaysian Traditional Agricultural
  • Societies; IV Other Ethnographic
  • Features of Austronesian Societies; V
  • The Comparative Reconstruction of
  • Early Austronesian Society; 6 The
  • Hoabinhians and Their Island
  • Contemporaries; I Peninsular Malaysia
  • and Mainland Southeast Asia: The
  • Hoabinhian and Its Predecessors; II
  • Island Southeast Asia: The Later
  • Pebble and Flake Industries, with
  • Variations; III The Flake and Blade
  • Technocomplex of the Mid-Holocene;
  • 7 The Archaeological Record of Early
  • Austronesian Communities; I The
  • Origins of Agriculture. II The
  • Beginnings of Austronesian
  • PrehistoryIII The Neolithic Phase in
  • Island Southeast Asia and Western
  • Oceania; IV An Integrated View of
  • Early Austronesian Expansion; V The
  • Stages of Austronesian Agricultural
  • Prehistory; 8 The Archaeological
  • Record of Early Agricultural
  • Communities in Peninsular Malaysia; I
  • The Significance of the Ban Kao
  • Culture and the Malay Peninsular
  • Neolithic; 9 The Early Metal Phase: A
  • Protohistoric Transition toward Supra-
  • Tribal Societies; I The Dong Son
  • Culture of Northern Vietnam; II The Sa
  • Huynh Culture of Southern Vietnam;
  • III The Role of India. IV Bronze
  • Artifacts of Dong Son and Local Styles
  • from the Sunda Islands and Peninsular
  • MalaysiaV The Slab Graves and Iron
  • Industry of Peninsular Malaysia; VI The
  • Early Metal Phase in Sumatra, Java,
  • and Bali; VII The Early Metal Phase in
  • East Malaysia and Eastern Indonesia;
  • 10 A Final Overview; Notes;
  • References; Index; Plates.