Peter Bellwood received his
B.A. and
Ph.D. from the
University of Cambridge (
King's College) in 1966 and 1980, respectively. His areas of specialization include the human population history of
Southeast Asia and the
Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; the worldwide origins of
agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments; and the prehistory of human migration. He is researching with Philip J. Piper and Lam My Dzung on an archaeological fieldwork project, funded by the Australian Research Council, on Neolithic sites in
Vietnam. Professor Bellwood was the Secretary-General of the
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (1990 to 2009) and was formerly the Editor of the
Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (now the
Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology). == Awards and recognition ==