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Focusing on the ancient culture and civilisation of China, early Southeast Asia, and Melanesia, contributions from 40 specialists in archaeology, ceramics, conservation, historical studies, linguistics, metallurgy, radiocarbon dating, and x-radiology are co-ordinated into an overall view of the background of the Pacific cultures to the north of Australia. The forty-five papers were delivered at a conference at Kiola, NSW, in 1988, and have been since updated. All of the contributions are presented in English. David Bulbeck is a research fellow at the Australian National University. Noel Barnard, now retired, was professor of Far Eastern history at the Australian National University.
