Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. A renowned authority in a field driven by contesting paradigms, his vast experience and detailed empirical research have informed his widely-translated publications, especially covering South East Asia and the Pacific. Recent key works include The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Volume 1: Prehistory (2013), co-edited with Immanuel Ness, First Farmers (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (second edition 1997, reprinted 2007), and Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (2002), co-edited with Colin Renfrew. His research integrates a range of techniques from archaeology, linguistics, and human biology, and he is currently engaged in archaeological research in Vietnam and the Philippines.

Preface A Note on Dating Terminology Acknowledgements 1. The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration 2. Making Inferences about Prehistoric Migration 3. Migrating Hominins and the Rise of our Own Species 4. Beyond Eurasia: the Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands - Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, the Americas 5. Hunter-gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World 6. The First Farmers and their Offspring 7. The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex 8. The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes 9. The African and American Food Production Complexes 10. The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity