The 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 -- The patterns of history and ethnography -- The Hoabinhians and their island contemporaries -- The archaeological record of early Austronesian communities -- The archaeological record of early agricultural communities in Peninsular Malaysia -- The early metal phase: a protohistoric transition toward supra-tribal societies -- A final overview
Notes
Previous edition: 1997
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-372) and index
