First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia

Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.

Keywords:

Island Southeast Asia; prehistory; migration; population history; cultural history; archaeology; comparative linguistics; genetics; biological anthropology; Java hominins; Homo erectus; Homo floresiensis; Taiwan; Philippines; Indonesia; East Malaysia

, Prehistoric Archaeology