Out of the Forest and into the Farmyard: Examining the Transition from Foraging to Farming in Southeast Asia

Conveners: Philip J. Piper1 and Lam My Dung2

1 School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra

2 Dept. of Archaeology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.

Abstract:

It is becoming steadily more apparent that the transition from foraging to farming in Southeast Asia was far more complex than previously envisaged. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this session will examine recent research efforts into developing more reliable chronologies for the emergence of agriculture in Southeast Asia, understanding underlying economic strategies, including defining more clearly the origins and arrival of domesticated animals, identifying forager and farmer settlement patterns and lifeways – mobility vs sedentism, and interpreting potential interactions between foragers and early farmers across the region.

 If anyone is interested in presenting in this session could they please send a presentation abstract to: philip.piper@anu.edu.au