ABSTRACT
Updated handbook on the prehistory of insular Southeast Asia (peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Philippines). Also comments on adjacent regions such as Taiwan, mainland Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the Australasian continent comprising Australia and New Guinea. Includes chapters on Homo erectus in Sundaland; IndoMalaysians of the last 40,000 years; the dispersal of the present Austronesian-speaking peoples of the region within the past 4,000 years; and the spread of metallurgy since 500 B.C. Adopts a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating essential information from the palaeoenvironmental sciences, biological anthropology, linguistics, and social anthropology, [mk]
676 Henley, David Review of: Historical atlas of South-East Asia, by Jan M. Pluvier / David Henley. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde = Journal o f the Royal Institute o f Linguistics and Anthropology 153/2 (1997): 289-293. [mk]
677 Amara Srisuchat Ancient trades and cultural contacts in Southeast Asia / editor: Amara Srisuchat. Bangkok : The Office of the National Culture Commission, 1996. iii, 312 p., ill., maps, plans, col. ill. ISBN 974-8065-80-4. [International Seminar on Ancient Trades and Cultural Contact in Southeast Asia, Bang-
kok (th), 21-22 Jan 1991]
Southeast Asia; trade; trade routes; cultural contacts; archaeology
Proceedings of an international seminar on ancient trade in Southeast Asia and on the cultural contacts with South Asia, China, the Middle East, and Central Asia that resulted from it. The impact of various trade routes, such as the southern maritime trade route and the southwestern Silk Road, are considered. The studies in the volume are based on written documents, archaeological evidence, and artistic traditions, [mk]
See: 693, 701, 705, 706, 708, 714, 1062, 1139, 1141, 1148, 1149, 1248, 1299
678 Bellwood, Peter Indo-Pacific prehistory : the Chiang Mai papers, volume I / editorial coord.: Peter Bellwood; session eds: Elizabeth Bacus ... [et al.]. Canberra : Australian National University, 1996. 249 p., ill., maps, plans. (Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 14). [15th Congress of the IndoPacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai (th), 5-12 Jan 1994]
Southeast Asia; India; Nepal; China; New Caledonia; prehistory; proceedings
Contains articles on: human colonization of Sunda and Sahul; Southeast Asian palynology; Southeast Asian archaeology and linguistics; the prehistory of Indonesia (Sangiran, Java; palaeoenvironments of Sumatra; Homo erectus in Flores); prehistory of Thailand (post-Pleistocene; palaeopathology of skeletal remains at Non Pa Wai; personal ornaments at Nong Nor); Niah cave, Sarawak; remote sensing applied to the Angkor Plain; research in Vietnam (Lang Trang caves; the Trang Kenh jewellery workshop; excavations at Tra Kieu); research in the Philippines (anthropomorphic pottery from the Ayub cave; the Surigao del Norte archaeological project; the San Diego wreck site; aggression and alliance among pre-Hispanic chiefs); prehistory of Nepal; Indian Lower Palaeolithic; stone tool technology in New Caledonia; the Dian culture in China, [mk]
See: 158, 495, 689, 694, 697, 760, 850, 851, 862, 876, 1049, 1075, 1077, 1078, 1084, 1085, 1109, 1111, 1127, 1128, 1264, 1270, 1275, 1297, 1303
679 Bellwood, Peter Indo-Pacific prehistory : the Chiang Mai papers, volume 3 / editorial coord.: Peter Bellwood and Dianne Tillotson; session eds: R.P. Soejono, David Welch. Canberra : Australian National University, 1997. 241 p., ill., maps, plans. (Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 16). [15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai (th), 5-12
Jan 1994]
Southeast Asia; Pacific; China; India; prehistory; proceedings
Contains articles on: Southeast Asian palynology; the Hoabinhian; political and economic organization of the Khmer state; inland Angkor as opposed to coastal Kedah; architecture and social power in the Philippines and Oceania; new dates for the Ban Chiang cultural tradition; crucible technology at Ban Chiang; trauma in the human skeletons from Ban Chiang; jar burial in the Mun and Chi valleys; iron-smelting and salt-making industries in northeastern Thailand; ring-ditch burials of northwestern Thailand; the moated site of Muang Phet; maritime adaptive strategies in post-Pleistocene Southeast Asia; the Khok Charoen site in Lop Buri province; the development of prehistorical research in Indonesia; ancestor statues in Bali. Includes a few articles on the prehistory of China, India, and the Pacific (New Ireland), [mk]
See: 699, 702, 704, 877, 977, 1114, 1115, 1117, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1124, 1126, 1131, 1135, 1138, 1153, 1266, 1301
680 Glover, Ian C. Indo-Pacific prehistory : the Chiang Mai papers, volume 2 / editorial coord. Ian C. Glover and Peter Bellwood; session eds: Harry Allen ... [et al.]. Canberra : Australian National University, 1996. 241 p., ill., maps, plans. (Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 15). [15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai (th), 5-12 Jan 1994]
Pacific; Southeast Asia; East Asia; prehistory; proceedings
Contains articles on: prehistoric colonization of Hawaii; traditional agriculture of the Marquesas islands; prehistory of the southern Cook islands; platform ahu of Easter island; monumental forts of Maré island, New Caledonia; development of coral reefs and human settlement in the northern Cook islands and Rorotonga; recent excavations at Chalan Piao, Saipan, Micronesia; the Meacham-Bellwood debate on Austronesian origins; relatedness of language families of East and Southeast Asia; the Yue; the concept of Nusantao; multi-regional contacts of prehistoric Fais islanders; prehistoric transfers of portable items during the Lapita horizon; changes in midHolocene estuarine environments and subsistence in Australia and Southeast Asia; prehistory of Japan and China; Meganthropus and the hominid taxa of Java, [mk]
See: 681, 682, 703, 886, 887, 1304
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681 Allen, Harry The time of the mangroves : changes in mid-Holocene estuarine environments and subsistence in Australia and Southeast Asia / Harry Allen. In: Ian C. Glover and Peter Bellwood (editorial co-ords); Harry Allen ... [et al.] (session eds), Indo-Pacific prehistory : the Chiang Mai papers, volume 2, pp. 193-205. Canberra : Australian National University, 1996.
