Table of Contents

Introduction
Charles F. W. Higham and Nam C. Kim

1. Humans in Island Southeast Asia Prior to Homo Sapiens Settlement, With Special Reference to Java Island
François Sémah, Anne-Marie Sémah, Truman Simanjuntak, and Harry Widianto

2. Homo floresiensis
Matthew W. Tocheri, Thomas Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo

3. The Archaeogenetics of Southeast Asia
Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, Teresa Rito, Martin B. Richards

4. The early settlement of Island Southeast Asia
Graeme Barker

5. Stone Industries of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia
David Bulbeck and Ben Marwick

6. The Hoabinhian: The Late and Post-Pleistocene Cultural Systems of Southeast Asia
Rasmi Shoocongdej

7. Later hunter-gatherers in Guangxi Province
Xie Guangmao

8. The Neolithic of Vietnam
Philip J. Piper, Lâm Thi My Dung, Nguyen Khánh Trung Kiên, and Peter Bellwood

9. Coastal Settlement in Thailand
Charles F. W. Higham

10. Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Variability in Vietnam
Marc F. Oxenham, Anna Willis, Lân Cuong Nguyen, and Hirofumi Matsumura

11. Community and kinship during the transition to agriculture in Northern Vietnam
Damien Huffer, R. Alexander Bentley, Marc F Oxenham

12. Cereals of Southeast Asia
Dorian Q. Fuller and Cristina Castillo

13. Language Families of Southeast Asia
Laurent Sagart

14. The expansion of rice and millet farmers into Southeast Asia
Fiorella Rispoli

15. The Neolithic of Mainland Southeast Asia
Charles F.W. Higham

16. The Expansion of Farmers into Island Southeast Asia
Peter Bellwood

17. The Origins of the Bronze Age in Mainland Southeast Asia
Roberto Ciarla

18. Social change with the initial Bronze Age
Charles F.W. Higham

19. Prehistoric Copper Production and Exchange in Southeast Asia
Vincent C. Pigott and Thomas Oliver Pryce

20. Southeast Asian evidence for early maritime Silk Roads exchange and trade-related polities
Bérénice Bellina

21. Social Change in Southeast Asia during the Iron Age
Charles F.W. Higham

22. A New Chrono-Cultural Approach to the Iron Age in Myanmar
Anne-Sophie Coupey and Jean-Pierre Pautreau

23. The Dongson Culture of Vietnam
Nam C. Kim

24. The Sa Huynh culture and related cultures in Southern Vietnam and Cambodia
Andreas Reinecke

25. The Iron Age in Central Thailand
Fiorella Rispoli

26. The Dian Culture in Southwest China
TzeHuey Chiou-Peng

27. The Co Loa Polity in Northern Vietnam
Nam C. Kim

28. Mainland Southeast Asia's Earliest Kingdoms and the Case of

About the Author

C.F.W. Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago, whose previous books include The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor.

Nam C. Kim is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Origins of Ancient Vietnam.