New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory

Abstract

terra australis 45Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. Copyright of the text remains with the authors, 2017. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. List of volumes in Terra Australis Karina ArifinFakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Departemen Arkeologi, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia Robert BlustDepartment of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA David BulbeckDepartment of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Judith CameronDepartment of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Zhang ChiSchool of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China Gang HeThe Cultural Relics and Archeological Research Institution in Hunan Province, China Helen HeathDepartment of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, North Dunedin, New Zealand Charles HighamDepartment of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, North Dunedin, New Zealand Mark J. HudsonMt Fuji World Heritage Centre for Mountain Research, Shizuoka, Japan Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan Hsiao-chun HungDepartment of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Michiko IntohDepartment of Social Research, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan Timothy A. JinamDivision of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan Hideaki Kanzawa-KiriyamaDepartment of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan Nguyen Kim DungThe Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam Nguyen Lan CuongThe Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam Tracey L.-D. LuDepartment of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Hirofumi MatsumuraFaculty of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan Armand Salvador MijaresArchaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines Carmen SarjeantSchool of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Ken-ichi ShinodaDepartment of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan Tr...