Current portrayals of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) over the past 5,000 years are dominated
by discussion of the Austronesian “farming/language dispersal,” with associated linguistic …

1975; Shutler & Marck 1975). Robert Blust (1976) used the many linguistic correspondences
across the language family to reconstruct the culture of proto-Austronesian speakers, at least …

Several recent articles in Antiqui (Barker et al. 201 la; Hung et al. 2011; Spriggs 2011),
discuss the validity of, and revise, portrayals of an Austronesian farming-language dispersal …

This paper reviews the “standard” view of the Austronesian language family tree in
connection with the archeological “farming/language dispersal” hypothesis of Neolithic …

In the histories of human populations, the origins of agriculture marks a major demographic
watershed. In most cases, hunter-gatherer societies were mobile, or at least mobility was …

After 5,000 years ago, the world of the hunter-gatherer economy across Southeast Asia and
on the western edge of the Pacific was confronted rather suddenly by another economic …

The origins of agriculture have been debated by archaeologists for most of the discipline's
history, no more so than in Island Southeast Asia. The orthodox view is that Neolithic farmers …

Peter Bellwood exchanged between groups who share no close common linkages of
linguistic or genetic descent. So can languages, but the linguistic record at the language …

The Austronesian expansion into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific was the last and
most far-reaching prehistoric human migration. Austronesian languages replaced …

Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to
Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the 'Austronesian …