Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-372) and index.
Contents
Environmental background: present and past -- Homo erectus in Sundaland -- Indo-Malaysians of the last 40,000 years -- Recent Indo-Malaysian prehistory: according to the languages -- Patterns of history and ethnography -- Hoabinhians and their island contemporaries -- Archaeological record of early Austronesian communities -- Archaeological record of early agricultural communities in Peninsular Malaysia -- Early metal phase: a protohistoric transition toward supra-tribal societies -- A final overview.