Nusantao’s order of expansion. (the 4 lobes)
The Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network
>Importance of water system
1. Trade:
a. out of necessity
b. out of curiosity
2. Flow of language and culture
>Peoples as "bearers of a living, evolving, variable culture"
>Importance of auxiliary sciences
>Difference among theories
>Emphasis on cultural similarities
>Use of spatial, temporal and cultural contexts( Gripaldo, 2003)
Solheim's NMTCN Hypothesis
Educational Background
As an anthropologist he
- Is a senior practitioner of archaeology in Southeast Asia
- Is a pioneer in the study of Philippine and Southeast Asian prehistoric archaeology
- Best known for hypothesizing the existence of the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network during the Neolithic age as a theory of the Asia-Pacific region peopling
- He had his archaeological training at the University of California, Berkeley
- After that, he has been under Professor Otley H. Beyer in the University of the Philippines
- He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1959
- He became a staff of the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 1997
Wilhelm Solheim II
Conclusion
Comparing Solheim and Bellwood
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Thor Heyerdahl
William Howells
Peter Bellwood
Critique
Robert Heinegeldern
A. Pawley and R. Green