Professor Peter Bellwood

Professor of Archaeology

Email: peter.bellwood@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3120

Research and Outreach

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 the Philippines and Vietnam.

Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and Editor, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.

Member of the following editorial boards: Asian Perspectives; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory; Journal of Austronesian Studies; Review of Archaeology; Sarawak Museum Journal.

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Recent and Main Publications

2001 Early agriculturalist population diasporas? Farming, languages and genes. Annual Review of Anthropology 30:181-207. (View full text as pdf)

2002 P. Bellwood and C. Renfrew (eds), Examining the Farming/language Dispersal Hypothesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2003 Farmers and their languages: the first expansions (by Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood). Science 300:597-603. (View full text as pdf)

2004 Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (eds), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

2005 Australia and the Austronesians (by Peter Bellwood and Peter Hiscock). In Chris Scarre ed., The Human Past, pp. 264-305. London: Thames and Hudson. (View full text as pdf)

2005 First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Oxford: Blackwell. Winner of Society of American Archaeology Book Award, 2006.

2007 Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2nd edition). Canberra: ANU E-Press.This book is a pdf in the ANU E-Press webpage at http://epress.anu.edu.au/pima_citation.html

2007 Hung, Hsiao-Chun, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Peter Bellwood, Kim Dung Nguyen, Bérénice Bellina, Praon Silapanth, Eusebio Dizon, Rey Santiago, Ipoi Datan and Jonathan. Manton Ancient jades map 3000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104: 19745-50. (View full text as pdf)

2007 Bellwood, Peter, Judith Cameron, Nguyen Van Viet and Bui Van Liem. Ancient boats, boat timbers, and locked mortise and tenon joints from Bronze Age northern Vietnam. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 36: 2-20. (View full text as pdf)

2008 Archaeology and the origins of language families. In A. Bentley, H. Maschner and C. Chippindale eds, Handbook of Archaeological Theories, pp. 225-43. Lanham: Altamira. (View full text as pdf)

2008 Bellwood, P. and E. Dizon. 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 eds, Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics, pp. 23-39. London: Routledge. (View full text as pdf)

2008 Bellwood, P. and M. Oxenham. The expansions of farming societies and the role of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. In Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef eds, The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences, pp. 13-34. Dordrecht: Springer. (View full text as pdf)

Courses Currently Taught

Peter Bellwood is on long service leave until mid-2010.