Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. He is the author of "Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis" (co-edited with Colin Renfrew, 2003), "Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago" (2nd edition 1997), "The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People" (1987), and "Man's Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania" (1986).