There has been an increasing pace of archaeological research in Island Southeast Asia in
recent years and this is bringing some balance into the study of Neolithic/Austronesian …

The Bismarck Archipelago is located east of the main island of New Guinea and consists of
the islands of New Britain, New Ireland and its off shore islands, the St Matthias group …

Radiocarbon dating results from the Batanes archaeological project (2002–2004) are
analysed and compared with similar data from northern Luzon. It is argued that the reef-shell …

WHILE HUNTING FOR ORIGINS MAY NO LONGER BE ARCHAEOLOGICALLY FASHION-
able, there can be no doubt that it has remained a central issue in Pacific archaeological …

Abstract Within the Pacific Islands, the archaeological phenomenon called the Lapita
Cultural Complex is widely regarded as first appearing in the Bismarck Archipelago of …

The topic of this paper is about “the Austronesian spread” in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Austronesian (AN) is properly a linguistic term referring to a family of languages spoken by …

For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast
Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the …

Abstract Island Southeast Asia extends across both the equatorial and the intermediate
tropical zones of world climate, and it also spans a region of complex and geologically …

The Neolithic cultures of southeast China and Taiwan take on increased significance when
considered in light of current debate over Austronesian origins. Austronesian speakers …

Winner of the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian
Studies! In this book, leading archaeologist Tianlong Jiao takes us on an archaeological …