SPRING PNWAS,
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
THE FIVE MILLION YEAR ODYSSEY,
The Human Journey
from Ape to Agriculture
By Dr. Peter Bellwood
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of
Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National
University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
(a top-rated Archaeologist in the World:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bellwood )
The Human Journey
from Ape to Agriculture
By Dr. Peter Bellwood
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of
Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National
University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
(a top-rated Archaeologist in the World:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bellwood )
PNWAS ZOOM Meeting
Thursday April 10th 2025
starting at 6:30 PM
To join the ZOOM Meeting and see the presentation
please become a member today!
Thursday April 10th 2025
starting at 6:30 PM
To join the ZOOM Meeting and see the presentation
please become a member today!
Dr. Bellwood was a speaker at our PNWAS 1989 Circum- Pacific Prehistory Conference at the Seattle Center—our society provided the much-needed volunteer staff for this international conference held with the 1989 Washington Centennial programs. See our conference program at this web site, and Peter is on page 14:
https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/conferenceProceedi
ng/Circum-Pacific-Prehistory-
Conference/99901083737301842?institution=01ALLIANCE_
WSU. PNWAS is recognized on the cover as sponsor:
https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/conferenceProceedi
ng/Circum-Pacific-Prehistory-
Conference/99901083737301842?institution=01ALLIANCE_
WSU. PNWAS is recognized on the cover as sponsor:
Co-sponsored by
Washington State University, The 1989 Washington
Centennial Commission, The City of Seattle, and the
Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society
Washington State University, The 1989 Washington
Centennial Commission, The City of Seattle, and the
Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society
This was our Native Logo for the Conference.
We hope you have had a chance to read his new book and prepare to ask questions (this will be a presentation and a conversational discussion/chat with Peter). He has a refreshing Pacific Basin view of things. You can get a Kindle version or actual copy of book through Amazon.
Here's the description in Amazon:
Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In The Five-Million- Year Odyssey, Peter Bellwood synthesizes research from archaeology, biology, anthropology, and linguistics to immerse us in the saga of human evolution, from the earliest traces of our hominin forebears in Africa, through waves of human expansion across the continents, and to the rise of agriculture and explosive demographic growth around the world.
Peter divides the whole Odyssey, from ape to agricultures into four Acts (below) and we will discuss each Act with him individually. No doubt some or all of these Acts will interest you, and I know the end of Act III, Settlement of Americas, will be an important act for most of us looking at the entrance (our Chehalis River Hypothesis) and movement of people throughout the entire second earth (the American continents)!
Here's the description in Amazon:
Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In The Five-Million- Year Odyssey, Peter Bellwood synthesizes research from archaeology, biology, anthropology, and linguistics to immerse us in the saga of human evolution, from the earliest traces of our hominin forebears in Africa, through waves of human expansion across the continents, and to the rise of agriculture and explosive demographic growth around the world.
Peter divides the whole Odyssey, from ape to agricultures into four Acts (below) and we will discuss each Act with him individually. No doubt some or all of these Acts will interest you, and I know the end of Act III, Settlement of Americas, will be an important act for most of us looking at the entrance (our Chehalis River Hypothesis) and movement of people throughout the entire second earth (the American continents)!
Below Bellwood shows similarities of artifacts around the Pacific Basin, including the 16,000 year old stemmed points from Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho (left) discussed at PNWAS ZOOM by Dr. Loren Davis as an underlying tradition to Clovis Points.
Of course, much more will be of interest, the first making and using stone tools (Acheulean hand axes), development of our cousins, Neanderthals and Denisovans, how we leave Africa into much of the Old World, colonizing the Arctic, the first food production and development of writing and empires. An amazing story, synthesized with a Pacific viewpoint by Peter Bellwood.
