This course reviews the archaeology of South East Asia. Its focus is on the archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age China, and the archaeology of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia from the late Pleistocene colonisation to the beginnings of Indian and Chinese contact. Particular emphasis is placed on the Pleistocene colonisation of SE Asia, on the archaeology of early agricultural and Bronze/Iron Age societies in both China and SE Asia, and on the cultural and linguistic ancestries of the present inhabitants of East and Southeast Asia.

Tutorial attendance (10%), tutorial presentation (10%), test (10%), two essays (35% each).

2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of  tutorial per week

Glover, I. and Bellwood, P. eds Southeast Asia: from Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, 2004.
Higham, C. Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia, Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Stark, M. ed Archaeology of Asia, Blackwell, 2006.