Peter Bellwood (archaeologist)

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Peter Stafford Bellwood (* 1943 in Great Britain ) is Professor of Archeology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra .

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Bellwood studied at the University of Cambridge , graduating with a Master of Arts and a PhD, which is common in English-speaking countries .

From 1967 to 1972 Bellwood was a lecturer in prehistory at the University of Auckland and in 1973 moved to the Australian National University , where he also taught as a lecturer in prehistory until 1975. From 1976 to 1983 he was a senior lecturer there and was appointed associate professor in 1984. In 2000 he was finally given the professorship in the archeology department. Since then he has headed the Archeology School of Archeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts at the Australian National University in Canberra .

In 1983 Bellwood was elected a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and in 2016 an external member of the British Academy .

His book First Farmers. The Origins of Agricultural Societies received the 2006 Book Award from the Society for American Archeology .

Publications

  • The Polynesians. Prehistory of an Island People (=  Ancient Peoples and Places . Volume 92 ). Thames and Hudson , London 1978, ISBN 0-500-02093-0 (English).
  • Man's Conquest of the Pacific. The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania . William Collins Publisher Ltd. , Auckland et al. 1978, ISBN 0-00-216911-8 (English).
  • Archaeological research at Lake Mangakaware, Waikato, 1968-1970 (= Monograph of the New Zealand Archaeological Association. Vol. 9, ISSN  0110-6473 = Otago University Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology. Vol. 12). University of Otago, Department of Anthropology, Dunedin 1978.
  • Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago . Academic Press, Sydney 1985, ISBN 0-12-085370-1 ; 2. Revised edition: ANU Press, Canberra 2007, ISBN 9781921313127 .
  • Edited with James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon : The Austronesians. Historical and comparative Perspectives . The Australian National University, Department of Anthropology , Canberra 1995, ISBN 0-7315-2132-3 (English).
  • as ed. with Colin Renfrew : Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis . McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research , Cambridge 2002, ISBN 1-902937-20-1 (English).
  • as ed. with Ian Glover : Southeast Asia. From Prehistory to History . Routledge Shorton , London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-415-29777-X (English).
  • First farmers. The Origins of Agricultural Societies . Blackwell Publishing , Malden MA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-631-20565-9 (English).

Web links

  • Professor Peter Bellwood . The Australian National University, archived from the original onFebruary 14, 2014; accessed on January 20, 2016(English, original website no longer available).
  • Web presence ( memento from September 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at the Faculty of Arts of the Australian National University , as of September 16, 2009 (English)
  • Professor Peter Bellwood . ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences - The Australian National University, archived from the original onAugust 10, 2010; accessed on October 23, 2010(English, original website no longer available).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Australian Academy of the Humanities . The Academy Fellows - Bellwood, Peter, FAHA , archived from the original on April 10, 2013 ; accessed on May 8, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. ^ Book Award , website of the Society for American Archeology
personal data
SURNAME Bellwood, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellwood, Peter Stafford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain