Peter Stafford Bellwood (born Leicester, England, 1943) is a Professor of Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. His areas of specialization include prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology. He is currently involved in archaeological fieldwork projects in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Professor Bellwood is the Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and editor of the Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, a member of the following editorial boards: Asian Perspectives; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory; Journal of Austronesian Studies; Journal of World Prehistory; Review of Archaeology; Sarawak Museum Journal. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
A fieldwork project in the northern Moluccas islands of eastern Indonesia, involving joint research with Indonesian scholars and Geoffrey Irwin of Auckland University yielded cave sequences covering the past 35,000 years, with very clear signals of an Austronesian presence commencing after 4000 BP.
Peter Bellwood (2017), First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-1192-5154-5.Peter Bellwood (2013), First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-1-4051-8908-8. Peter Bellwood (2004), First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-631-20566-1. Ian Glover; Peter S. Bellwood (2004), Southeast Asia: from prehistory to history, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-29777-6. Peter S. Bellwood; Colin Renfrew (2002), Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-902937-20-5. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Congress; Peter S. Bellwood (2001), Indo-Pacific prehistory: the Melaka papers, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Australian National University. Peter S. Bellwood (1997), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-1907-1. Bellwood, Peter S. (2000), Presejarah Kepulauan Indo-Malaysia. (Translation of Bellwood 1997) Peter S. Bellwood; James J. Fox; Darrell T. Tryon (1995), The Austronesians: historical and comparative perspectives, ANU E Press, ISBN 978-0-7315-2132-6. Peter S. Bellwood; James J. Fox; Darrell T. Tryon (1995), The Austronesians: historical and comparative perspectives, ANU E Press, ISBN 978-0-7315-2132-6. Peter S. Bellwood (1988), Archaeological Research in South-eastern Sabah, Sabah Museum and State Archives. Virendra N. Misra; Peter Bellwood (1985), Recent advances in Indo-Pacific prehistory: proceedings of the international symposium held at Poona, December 19–21, 1978, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-07512-2. Peter S. Bellwood (1979), Man's conquest of the Pacific: the prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-520103-1. Peter S. Bellwood (1978), The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-02093-7. Peter S. Bellwood (1978), Archaeological research at Lake Mangakaware, Waikato, 1968-1970, University of Otago, Dept. of Anthropology. Clifford Sather; James J. Fox, eds. (2006), "Chapter 2. Hierarchy, Founder Ideology and Austronesean Expansion", Origins, Ancestry and Alliance Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography, ANU E Press, pp. 19–42, ISBN 978-1-920942-87-8. Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; Robert M. W. Dixon, eds. (2006), "Chapter 2. Archaeology and the Historical determinants of Punctuation in Language-Family origins", Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-928308-8. Peter Bellwood; Peter Hiscock (2005), "Australia and the Austronesians", in Christopher Scarre; Chris Scarre, The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Thames & Hudson, pp. 264–305, ISBN 978-0-500-28531-2. Peter Bellwood (2005), "Chapter 1. Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis in the East Asian context", in Sagart, R. Blench; Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, The peopling of East Asia: putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-32242-3. Peter Bellwood (2004), "Chapter 3. Colin Renfrew's Emerging Synthesis: Farming, Languages and Genes as Viewed from the Antipodes", in Colin Renfrew; Martin Jones, Traces of ancestry: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 31–40, ISBN 978-1-902937-25-0. Peter Bellwood (1991), "Prehistory", in Eric Oey, Sumatra, Periplus Editions, p. 28, ISBN 978-0-945971-13-9. Gale de Giberne Sieveking; Ian H. Longworth; K. E. Wilson, eds. (1976), "Prehistoric Plant and Animal Domestication in Austronesia", Problems in economic and social archaeology, Duckworth, pp. 153–168, ISBN 978-0-7156-0942-2. Peter Bellwood (1970), "Dispersal Centers in East Polynesia, With Special reference to the Society and Marquesae islands", in Roger Curtis Green; Marion Kelly, Studies in oceanic culture history: papers, 1 (3), Dept. of Anthropology, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, pp. 93–96. Journals and magazines
Peter Bellwood; Eusebio Dizon (2005), The Batanes Archaeological Project and the "Out Of Taiwan" Hypothesis for Austronesian Dispersal (PDF), 1, Taitung, Taiwan: Journal of Austronesian Studies, pp. 1–32, archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2007. Jared Diamond; Peter Bellwood (April 2003), Farmers and their languages: the first expansions (PDF), 300, Science, pp. 597–603. Bellwood, Peter (2001), "Early agriculturalist population diasporas? Farming, languages and genes" (PDF), Annual Review of Anthropology, 30: 181–207, doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.181. Ipol Datan; Peter Bellwood (1993), "Recent Research at Gua Sireh (Serian) and Lubang Angin (Gunung Mulu National park), Sarawak", The Sarawak Museum journal, 44 (65), Sarawak Museum, p. 93. Peter Bellwood (1983), "Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago", Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 15, Northern Illinois University. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, p. 117. "Excavations at Okatanmi Pa, South Kaipara Harbour", Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1 (2), The Society, 1971, p. 259. Peter Bellwood (2005), The Early Movements of Austronesian-speaking Peoples in the Indonesian Region, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Peter S Bellwood; Judith Cameron; S G Keates (2005), Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Taipei Papers : Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002., Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Australian National University. Peter Bellwood (2002), Enlightenment Or Obfuscation?: Some Afterthoughts. Peter Bellwood (2002), Farmers, Foragers, Languages, Genes: The Genesis of Agricultural Societies. Peter Bellwood (2000), Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Melaka Papers. Vol 1 ; Pre-congress Issue....., 6 ; Proceedings., Australian National University : Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Peter S. Bellwood; Ian C. Glover; Harry Allen; Dianne Tillotson (1997), Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Chiang Mai Papers : Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5 to 12 January 1994, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Australian National University. Peter Bellwood (1996), The Northern Moluccas as a Crossroads Between Indonesia and the Pacific, Pusat Studi Asia Pasifik, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Congress; Peter S. Bellwood (1996), Indo-Pacific prehistory: the Ching Mai papers, 2, Australian National University. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress; Peter Bellwood; Harry Allen (1993), Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1990, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress; Peter Bellwood; harry Allen (1993), Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1990, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. Peter S. Bellwood; Asok Kumar Datta; P. G. Chatterjee; Amiya Kumar Sen; Asok K. Ghosh (1992), "peter+bellwood" Man and his culture, a resurgence, Books & Books, ISBN 978-81-85016-33-7. Peter Bellwood (1989), Cultural and Biological Differentiation in Peninsular Malaysia: The Last 10,000 Years, Kementerian Kebudayaan dan Pelancongan Malaysia : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP). Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim; Peter Bellwood (1988), Asian Perspectives: IPPA Proceedings Issue, University of Hawaii Press. Peter Bellwood (1973), The Prehistory of Oceania, Dept. of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University. Peter Bellwood (1978), Archaeological Research at Lake Mangakaware, Waikato, 1968-1970, University of Otago, Department of Anthropology. Peter Bellwood (1969), Archaeology on Rarotonga and Aitutaki, Cook Islands: A Preliminary Report, University of Auckland. Bellwood, Peter; Glover, Ian (eds.), The peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific, Blackwell. Peter Bellwood, "Vladimir Âkovlevič Petruhin, Mihail Vasil'evič Krûkov", Pokorenie čelovekom Tihogo okeana: Ûgo-Vostočnaâ Aziâ i Okeaniâ v doistoričeskuû èpohu. 
