Taiwan museum of prehistoric culture-The Journal of Austronesian Studies

The Journal of Austronesian Studies

The Journal of Austronesian Studies, published semiyearly by the National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan, is devoted to the study of Austronesian societies from Archaeological, Anthropological, and Linguistic perspectives.

Published both in Chinese and English, the Journal welcomes contributions from domestic and international academic communities in research articles, field research report, research materials, review article, and book review relating to aspects in society, history, and culture of the Austronesian speaking people.

Articles and editorial correspondence should be addressed to:

The Editorial Board, Journal of Austronesian Studies,

National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan

#1 Museum Road, Taitung City, 950, Taiwan

E-mail：jas@nmp.gov.tw

Electronic files for the Journal of Austronesian Studies. (All files are in the PDF format)

Publish Year	Issue
2015	Volume 6 Number 1	Volume 6 Number 2
2014	Volume 5 Number 1	Volume 5 Number 2
2013	Volume 4 Number 1	Volume 4 Number 2
2012	Volume 3 Number 1	Volume 3 Number 2
2008	Volume 2 Number 1
2005	Volume 1 Number 1	Volume 1 Number 2

Volume 6 Number 2

Author	Title	starting page number
I-lin Wu	The Fine Corded Ware Technical Tradition in the Chaolaiqiao Site	1
Chien-chang Feng	Genesis, Baseball, and the State：the Making of New Historicity among the Falangaw Amis of Taiwan	55
Su-chiu Kuo	A Report on the Excavation at the Chungkuang Site in the Northern Section of the East Rift Valley	91
Chun Fu	A Report on the Collections of Taiwan Indigenous Artifacts in Major European Ethnology Museums	191

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Volume 6 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Sung-En Lin	Root and Route: the Localization of Production as viewed from a Special Exhibition on Hand Tattooing at the Laiyi Indigenous Museum	1
Tsuoting Lee, I-lin Wu, Kuangti Li, Kun-hsiu Lee	The Origin of Rice Cultivation at 4,000 Years Ago on the East Coast of Taiwan: Preliminary Results of Phytolith Analysis	25
Mei-chen Yeh	Research on Impressed and Incised Designs on Ta-pen-keng Culture Pottery of Western Taiwan in the Collections of National Museum of Prehistory	51

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Volume 5 Number 2

Author	Title	starting page number
Mike T. Carson	De-coding the Archaeological Landscape of Samoa: Austronesian Origins and Polynesian Culture	1
Cheng-Heng Hu	Making Stressful Coasts into Austronesian Practice Ground ? : Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Yami/Tao Agro-Forests	43
Su-Chiu Kuo	A Discussion on the Essence of the Yuanshan Culture in Northern Taiwan	69

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Volume 5 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Shu-Ling Yeh	Contemporary Community Life of the Austronesian-speaking Amis of Taiwan	1
Kun-Hsiu Lee	A Preliminary Research on the Prehistoric Remains Excavated from the To-liang Site, Taitung	31
Budianto Hakim	Archaeological Traces of Austronesian Ancestors at the Kamansi Site of the Karama River Valley in West Sulawesi, Indonesia	73

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Volume 4 Number 2

Author	Title	starting page number
Michael Pietrusewsky, Adam Lauer, Cheng-hwa Tsang, Kuang-ti Li, Michele Toomay Douglas	Dental Indicators of Health in Early Neolithic and Iron Age Skeletons from Taiwan	1
Yuping Chen	Facing Outsiders: Encountering with European traders from 16th to 19th century in Palau	35
David Joel Cohen	The Advent and Spread of Early Pottery in East Asia: New Dates and New Considerations for the World’s Earliest Ceramic Vessels	55

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Volume 4 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Jackson Hu, Tzu-Ching Lin	Emotional Reminders of Tao/Yami Landscape Between the Past and Present: In the Case of Making Place Names	1
Mike T. Carson	Austronesian Migrations and Developments in Micronesia	25
Nguyen Thi Mai Huong	Neolithic Vegetation in Northern Vietnam: An Indication of Early Agricultural Activities	51
Chi-Shan Chang	Searching the Fuya: The Field Report of Bark Cloth, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia	73
Yulun Huang	Fashionable Traditional Clothing: pakaian adat in Bali	93

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Volume 3 Number 2

Author	Title	starting page number
Mei-Chen Yeh	Ancient worship on the dune-Presentation and discussion on the cemetery structure excavated at the Chang-guang site and Cheng-zi-pu site	1
I-Lin Wu、Laurent Deschodt	A Spatial Analysis of Neolithic sites on East Taiwan and Related Issues	45
Hsiao-Chin Yang,Kunh-Siu Lee,and Wen-Shan Chen	The application of petrographic analysis to achaeological research：examples from the artifacts and sherds of Chiu Hsiang Lan site, taitung, Taiwan	71

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Volume 3 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Scarlett Chiu	The way of doing things: what Lapita pottery can tell us about the stories of Austronesian expansion	1
Cheng-hsien Yang	"Ethnic Group" Existed betwixt and between Islands and States：On Oral Histories among the Tao from Orchid Island,Taiwan and the Ivatan from Batanes Islands, the Philippines	27
Mike T. Carson	Evolution of an Austronesian Landscape: The Ritidian Site in Guam	55
Cheng-hwa Tsang	Once Again on the Austronesian Origin and Dispersal	87

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Volume 2 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Frederique Valentin, Christophe Sand	Review Prehistoric Burials from New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia): A Review	1
Zhengfu Guo, Tianlong Jiao	Searching for the Neolithic Interactions across the Taiwan Strait:Isotopic Evidence of Stone Adzes from Mainland China	31
Hsiu-Man Lin	Recent Development of Biological Anthropology in Taiwan	41
Shao-Yien Hsu	Research Report on Rusarsol Site of Yayo Village in Lanyu	55
Ching-Long Yeh Zhi-Wei Liu	Study on the Ethnobotany of Atayal in Xiuluan Village, Jienshih Township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan	85
Elizabeth Zeitoun	Josiane Cauquelin. 2004. The Aborigines of Taiwan. The Puyuma:From Headhunting to the Modern World.London and New York: Routledge Curzon.277pp.HardcoverISISBN 0-415-31413-5	127

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Volume 1 Number 2

Author	Title	starting page number
Malcom Ross	The Batanic Languages in Relation to the Early History of the Malayo-Polynesian Subgroup of Austronesian	1
Atholl Anderson	Crossing the Luzon strait: Archaeological Chronology in the Batanes lslands,Philippines and the Regional Sequence of Neolithic Dispersal	25
Kuang-ti Li	Discussion of Prehistoric Kenting Inhabitants' Shellfish Gathering Strategy and Paleoenvironmental Implications	47
Armand Salvador B. Mijares	The Archaeology of Penablanca Cave Sites.Northern Luzon. Philippines	65
Chuan-kun Ho	On the Origins of Southern Mongoloid	95

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Volume 1 Number 1

Author	Title	starting page number
Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon	The Batanes Archaeological Project and the"Out of Taiwan Hypothesis for Austronesian Dispersal	1
Yoshiyuki lizuka. Hsiao-chun Hung	Archaeomineralogy of Taiwan Nephrite: Sourcing Study of Nephritic Artifacts from the Philippines	35
Yoshiyuki lizuka, Peter Bellwood, Hsiao-chun Hung.Eusebio Dizon	A Non-destructive Mineralogical Study of Nephritic Artifacts from ltbayat lsland.Batanes.Northern Philippines	83
Hsiao-chun Hung	Neolithic lnteraction between Taiwan and Northern Luzon: The Pottery and Jade Evidences from the Cagayan Valley	109
Cheng-hwa Tsang	On the Origin of the Yami People of Lanyu as Viewed from Archaeological Data	135

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