Emeritus Professor Peter Bellwood
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Peter Bellwood is an Emeritus Professor at the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Professor Bellwood’s research interests cover population migration during all periods of prehistory (world-wide); prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (world-wide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology.
In 2021, Professor Bellwood became the first Australian to win the International Cosmos Prize.
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ANU archaeologist awarded top honour for life’s work
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