Peter Stafford Bellwood (born

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, 1943) is Emeritus Professor of

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in the School of Archaeology and

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at the

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(ANU) in

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. He is well known for his Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis and his Out of Taiwan model regarding the spread of

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Education and career

Peter Bellwood received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the

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( King's College) in 1966 and 1980, respectively. His areas of specialization include the human population history of

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and the

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from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; the worldwide origins of

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and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments; and the prehistory of human migration. He is researching with Philip J. Piper and Lam My Dzung on an archaeological fieldwork project, funded by the Australian Research Council, on Neolithic sites in

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.Professor Peter Bellwood
School of Archaeology and

of the Australian National University. Professor Bellwood was the Secretary-General of the ''Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association'' (1990 to 2009) and was formerly the Editor of the ''Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association'' (now the ''Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology''). His books have been translated on 16 occasions into French, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian. Bellwood is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the archaeology journal Antiquity.

Awards and recognition

Peter Bellwood is a

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of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the

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In July 2021 Peter Bellwood won the International Cosmos Prize in Osaka, Japan, being the first Australian recipient.

Publications

Books (selected)

*Peter Bellwood (2023), ''First Farmers'', second edition, John Wiley & Sons, *Peter Bellwood (2022), ''The Five-Million-Year Odyssey'', Princeton University Press, . Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers. *Peter Bellwood (2019), ''The Spice Islands in Prehistory'', ANU Press, *Peter Bellwood (2017)
''First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia''
Wiley-Blackwell, *Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon (2013), ''4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange'', ANU Press, * *Peter Bellwood (2007), ''Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago'', 3rd edition, ANU E-Press, * Winner of the Association of American Publishers (Washington D.C.) Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing (Archaeology and Anthropology) for 2006; and winner of a Book Award from the Society for American Archaeology (Washington D.C. 2006). * * *Peter Bellwood (1997), ''Prehistory the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago'', revised edition, University of Hawaii Press, * * * * Revised edition 1987.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellwood, Peter 1943 births Living people 20th-century Australian historians 21st-century Australian historians Academic staff of the Australian National University Australian anthropologists Australian archaeologists Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Historians of the Pacific

Education and career

Awards and recognition

Publications

Books (selected)

See also

References