Peter S. Bellwood - The global prehistory of human migration

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Originally published as Volume I of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration edited by Immanuel Ness.

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute of James Cook University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages, and has published a grammar of Modern Hebrew and several grammars of Arawak languages from Brazil, including Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), in addition to grammars for Tariana from Northwest Amazonia (2003), and Manambu from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2008).

Bryant Allen retired from the Australian National University in 2009 and is now a Visiting Fellow in the State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University, Canberra. His main interests are in the sustainability of agricultural systems and rural development. With Mike Bourke and Robin Hide, he has defined, mapped, and described all Papua New Guinea agricultural systems.

Atholl Anderson is an Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University. He specializes in the archaeology, palaeoecology, and traditional history of islands, and in maritime migration and seafaring. He has undertaken research across the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in Scandinavia. He is the author of Prodigious Birds (1989) and The Welcome of Strangers (1998), coauthor of Tangata Whenua: an Illustrated History (2014) and coeditor of The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring (2010). His current research is in the Indian Ocean, New Zealand and Ecuador.

Peter Bellwood is an Emeritus Professor (Archaeology) at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He is author of First Farmers (2005), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2007), and First Migrants (2013), as well as editor of the prehistory volume in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. He is currently involved in archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

David Beresford-Jones is a fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. He uses archaeobotany and geoarchaeology to study prehistoric human ecology, particularly in the Andes and the European Upper Palaeolithic. He also has interests in the synthesis of archaeology and historical linguistics. He is the author of The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca (2011) and the co-editor of Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).

Vclav Blaek is a professor of comparative Indo-European linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He concentrates on Indo-European, Afroasiatic and Uralic linguistics, but some of his studies have also been devoted to Nilo-Saharan, Kartvelian, North Caucasian, Elamite, Dravidian, Altaic, Palaeo-Siberian, Ainu, Austric, and Australian languages. In addition to many contributions to linguistics journals and edited volumes, he is the author of Numerals: Comparative-etymological Analyses of Numeral Systems and Their Implications (1999), and Indo-European Smith and his Divine Colleagues (2010).

Robert Blust is a historical linguist with special interest in the Austronesian language family. He is the author of The Austronesian Languages (2009), and over 200 other publications on Austronesian linguistics and culture history, as well as several other topics, including the origin of the worldwide belief in dragons. His largest project, the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, is still ongoing.

Angela Bruch is a paleobotanist at the ROCEEH research center funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her research focuses on the understanding of spatial and temporal differences in the reaction of terrestrial ecosystems to Pleistocene global climatic changes, with particular emphasis on the quantitative reconstruction of terrestrial paleoenvironments, including climate quantification based on plant fossils. During the last decade she contributed to the reconstruction of Neogene environments in Eurasia.

Joachim Burger is Professor of Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. His research is on the population genetics of interaction between early Neolithic farmers and late hunter-gatherers in Europe. He draws inferences from ancient and modern DNA data using next-generation sequencing technology and biostatistical methods. In addition, he works on the domestication process and the early population history of domestic animals.

Mike T. Carson investigates natural-cultural histories, landscape ecology and evolution, and human-environmental relations throughout the Asia-Pacific region. His most recent work includes the book