Southeast Asia

Ian Glover is Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He has undertaken excavations in East Timor, Sulawesi, Western Thailand and Central Vietnam on periods ranging from Late Pleistocene cave deposits, Iron Age cemeteries and the emerging Cham Civilization of Central Vietnam. His academic interests include early technologies of bronze, iron and glass and the effects of inter-regional trade on cultural evolution. Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has carried out field research since 1967 in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) and numerous Polynesian islands. He has a special interest in archaeological and linguistic aspects of Austronesian prehistory in both Southeast Asia and Oceania, and in the prehistories of early farming populations in all parts of the world.

• Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction 1. Southeast Asia: Foundations for an Archaeological History 2. The Origins and Dispersals of Agricultural Communities in Southeast Asia: Commencing In Southern China About 8000 Years Ago 3. Mainland Southeast Asia from the Neolithic to the Iron Age 4. The Archaeology of Early Contact with India and the Mediterranean 5. The Archaeology Of Pre-Angkorean And Angkorean Cambodia 6. The Archaeology of the Early Buddhist Kingdoms of Thailand 7. The Archaeology of Burma/Myanmar 8. The Archaeology of Viet Nam 9. The Archaeology of the Indianised States of Champa (Southern Vietnam) 10. The Archaeology of the Hindu-Buddhist Civilisations of Indonesia 11. The Archaeology of the Philippine Islands 12. The Archaeology of the Maritime States of Southeast Asia During the First Millennium AD 13. Indigenous Traditions and Extraneous Influences in the Early History of Peninsular Malaysia 14. Retrospect and Prospect Index