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Biography
Born Leicester, UK
PhD Cambridge (King's College) 1980
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1983)
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2016)
Honorary Fellow, Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (Associazione ISMEO), Rome (2017)
International Cosmos Prize 2021
Research Interests
Population migration during all periods of prehistory (world-wide); prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (world-wide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology. Currently involved in archaeological fieldwork projects in Vietnam with Philip Piper and Lam My Dzung.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland
Bellwood, P., 1 Jan 2026, The World at 18 000 BP: Volume 2, Low Latitudes. Taylor and Francis - Balkema, Vol. 2. p. 255-263 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Genomic and morphometric evidence for Austronesian-mediated pig translocation in the Pacific
Stanton, D. W. G., Manin, A., Evin, A., Tabbada, K., Linderholm, A., Drinkwater, R., Thalmann, O., Ng'Ang'A, S. I., Amano, N., Anderson, A., Barnett, R., Barrière, P., Bedford, S., Bellwood, P., Brumm, A., Tien, T. C., Clark, G., Crooijmans, R., Cucchi, T. & Eusebio, M. S. & 38 others, , Jan 2026, In: Science. 391, 6780, 9 p., adv4963.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rebuttal Letter: Response to Albert Min-Shan Ko, Hung-Pin Tu and Ying-Chin Ko, “Genetic insights into the origin, admixture, and migration of the early Austronesian peoples”
Matsumura, H., Hung, H. C. & Bellwood, P., Apr 2026, In: Journal of Human Genetics. 71, 4, p. 239 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia
Hung, H.-C., Deng, Z., Liu, Y., Ran, Z., Zhang, Y., Li, Z., Kaifu, Y., Huang, Q., Nguyen, K. T. K., Le, H. D., Xie, G., Nguyen, A. T., Yamagata, M., Simanjuntak, T., Noerwidi, S., Fauzi, M. R., Tolla, M., Wetipo, A., He, G. & Sawada, J. & 3 others, , 15 Sept 2025, In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122 , 38, 12 p., e2515103122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Farming and language dispersals consequent upon the oldest developments of food production
Bellwood, P., 2025, The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. Robbeets, M. & Hudson, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press , p. 249–272 24 p. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Missing Millennium and the Origins of Agriculture in Southeast Asia
Piper, P. (PI) & Bellwood, P. (CoI)
1/07/21 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Human populations in the Karama Valley, c.3500 BP, and the Neolithic Settlement of Eastern Indonesia and the Pacific
Piper, P. (PI) & Bellwood, P. (CoI)
1/06/14 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Landscape, resources and human migration during the Southeast Asian Neolithic
Bellwood, P. (PI), Carson, M. (CoI), Hung, H.-C. (CoI) & Piper, P. (CoI)
1/01/14 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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The Archaeological and Biological Foundations of Southeast Asia, 2500 to 1000 BC
Bellwood, P. (PI), Hung, H.-C. (CoI), Oxenham, M. (CoI) & Piper, P. (CoI)
1/04/11 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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The Role of Taiwan in the Creation of Southeast Asian Peoples and Cultures, 2500BC to AD500
Bellwood, P. (PI)
1/07/07 → 30/04/11
Project: Research