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 Out of Taiwan model regarding the spread of Austronesian languages.

Education and career

Peter Bellwood received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University (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 into French, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian. Further translations are in progress into Chinese (Complex and Simplified) and Turkish.

Awards and recognition

Peter Bellwood is a

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of the

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, a Corresponding Fellow of the

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, and an Honorary Fellow of the Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (Rome). In July 2021 Peter Bellwood won the International Cosmos Prize in Osaka, Japan, being the first Australian recipient.

Publications

Books (selected)

*Peter Bellwood (2022), ''The Five-Million-Year Odyssey'', Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-19757-9. *Peter Bellwood (2019), ''

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'', ANU Press, ISBN 978-1-760-46290-1. *Peter Bellwood (2017)
''First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia''
Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-925-02127-1. *Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon (2013), ''4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange'', ANU Press, ISBN 978-1-925-02128-8. * * Revised edition due for publication March 2023. * * * Fully revised edition 1997, republished 2007. * * * Revised edition 1987.

References

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Education and career

Awards and recognition

Publications

Books (selected)

See also

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