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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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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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Thạch Lạc and the Neolithic transition in north-central Vietnam, 3000–2000 BCE
Piper, P. J., Thị Thúy, N., Bellwood, P., Thị Kim Quý, T., Grono, E., Petchey, F., Higham, C., Ceron, J., Campos, F. Z. & Thị Mỹ Dung, L., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. p. 1-25 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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500万年のオデッセイ: 人類の大拡散物語
Translated title of the contribution :The Five Million Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture Research output: Book/Report › Translation
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Archaeogenetics: Tracing ancient migrations from the Yellow River
Bellwood, P., 8 Jan 2024, In: Current Biology. 34, 1, p. R18–R20 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
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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