Man's Conquest of the Pacific

History

Bellwood, Peter

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

Man's conquest of the Pacific: The prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania

Collins

From initial hominid settlement to the dawn of history... This book describes the human prehistory of the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia from initial hominid settlement, more than one million years ago, to the eve of the historical Hindu--Buddhist and Islamic civilizations. The archaeological record provides the central theme, and additional chapters deal with essential information from the palaeoenvironmental sciences and the disciplines of biological anthropology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The overall goal of the work is to bring a multidisciplinary focus to bear on questions concerning past cultural and biological developments within the region. Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago interests those concerned with the fields of Pleistocence environments, and archaeology, as also students and researchers with an active interest in Southeast Asia. prehistory of the modern nations of Indonesia and Malaysia, as viewed from the perspective of the whole South-East Asian and Australasian region. Since modern nation boundaries have little meaning for the student of the remote past, I refer to the region in the following chapters as the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Several interlinked aspects of prehistory are reviewed, mainly from data produced by the disciplines of biological anthropology, linguistics and archaeology, and the overall time-span runs from about 2 million years ago to approximately AD 1000. In general, the book ceases with the historical civilisations of the first millennium AD, although it should be realised that prehistory sensu stricto continued in some remote regions to almost the present day.

Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

Asia

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

Academic Pr

Describes what is known or surmised through archaeological records about the prehistoric culture of Polynesian peoples, their languages, navigational skills, arts and customs

Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (Ancient Peoples & Places)

Australia & Oceania

Thames&Hudson

First Farmers

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. <ul> <li>Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years 
</li> <li>Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture 
</li> <li>Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes 
</li> <li>Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan</li> </ul>

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Blackwell Pub.

Wiley/Blackwell

The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In The Five-Million-Year Odyssey, Peter Bellwood synthesizes research from archaeology, biology, anthropology, and linguistics to immerse us in the saga of human evolution, from the earliest traces of our hominin forebears in Africa, through waves of human expansion across the continents, and to the rise of agriculture and explosive demographic growth around the world. Bellwood presents our modern diversity as a product of both evolution, which led to the emergence of the genus Homo approximately 2.5 million years ago, and migration, which carried humans into new environments. He introduces us to the ancient hominins--including the australopithecines, Homo erectus, the Neanderthals, and others--before turning to the appearance of Homo sapiens circa 300,000 years ago and subsequent human movement into Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas. Bellwood then explores the invention of agriculture, which enabled farmers to disperse to new territories over the last 10,000 years, facilitating the spread of language families and cultural practices. The outcome is now apparent in our vast array of contemporary ethnicities, linguistic systems, and customs. The fascinating origin story of our varied human existence, The Five-Million-Year Odyssey underscores the importance of recognizing our shared genetic heritage to appreciate what makes us so diverse.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Princeton University Press

Moving from northern Peninsular Malaysia to Timor and from Sumatra to the Moluccas, this text examines human prehistory from hominid settlement to the historical Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic cultures of the region. Topics include the archaeology of the area and macro-family linguistic classification.

Social Sciences

Univ of Hawaii Pr

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