4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines

by Peter Bellwood

The project reported on in this monograph has been concerned with the archaeology of the Batanes Islands, an archipelago that must have been settled quite early in the process of Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan southwards into the Philippines. A multi-phase archaeological sequence covering the past 4000 years for the islands of Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang and Siayan is presented, extending from the Neolithic to the final phase of Batanes prehistory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925021270
• ISBN13: 9781925021271
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.7"