Cultural and Biological Differentiation in Peninsular Malaysia: The Last 10,000 Years

dc.contributor.author Bellwood, Peter
dc.date.accessioned 2010-08-04T19:42:51Z
dc.date.available 2010-08-04T19:42:51Z
dc.date.issued 1993
dc.description.abstract This paper addresses questions of ethnogenesis and prehistoric cultural development in the Malay Peninsula. Both archaeological and linguistic sources are used and the time span extends from early Holocene foragers to the Malayic trading states of early history. Reasons are discussed for recognizing migration into the peninsula at various times as a necessary ingredient to explain ethnic diversity. Other models which claim totally in situ forms of cultural evolution to the exclusion of all external stimuli are evaluated and shown to be incomplete. KEYWORDS: Malaysia, prehistory, ethnogenesis, foraging, agriculture, colonization.
dc.identifier.citation Bellwood, P. 1993. Cultural and Biological Differentiation in Peninsular Malaysia: The Last 10,000 Years. Asian Perspectives 32 (1): 37-60.
dc.identifier.issn 1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn 0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17019
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 32
dc.relation.ispartofseries Number 1
dc.subject Malaysia
dc.subject prehistory
dc.subject ethnogenesis
dc.subject foraging
dc.subject agriculture
dc.subject colonization
dc.subject.lcsh Prehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcsh Prehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcsh Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcsh Oceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcsh East Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.title Cultural and Biological Differentiation in Peninsular Malaysia: The Last 10,000 Years
dc.type Article
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