ASIAN PERSPECTIVES

The Journal ofArchaeology for Asia and the Pacific

Volume 44 Fall 2005 Number 2

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Mind the Gap 247 Peter Bellwood

ARTICLES Chemical Identification and Cultural Implications of a Mixed 249 Fermented Beverage from Late Prehistoric Patrick E. McGovern, Anne P. Underhill, Hui Fang, Fengshi Luan, Gretchen R. Hall, Haiguang Yu, Chen-shan Wang, Fengshu Cai, Zhijun Zhao, and Gary M. Feinman Toward an Understanding of Technological Variability in 276 Microblade Assemblages in Hokkaido, Yuichi Nakazawa, Masami Izuho, ]un Takakura, and Satoru Yamada Illuminating Southeast Asian Prehistory: New Archaeological 293 and Paleoanthropological Frontiers for Luminescence Dating Richard G. Roberts, M.]. Morwood, and Kira E. Westaway Mid-Sequence Archaeology at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes with 320 Interpretive Implications for Fijian and Oceanic Culture History David V. Burley A 3000-Year Culture Sequence from Palau, Western 349 Micronesia Geoffrey R. Clark BOOK REVIEWS

The Genesis ofEast Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907, Charles Holcombe 381 Reviewed by Gideon Shelach Hunter-Gatherers ofthe North Pacific Rim, Junko Habu, James M. 383 Savelle, Shuzo Koyama, and Hitomi Hongo, eds. Reviewed by C. Melvin Aikens Tracing Thought through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early 386 Buddhist Archaeology ofIndia and Burma, Janice Stargardt Reviewed by Peter Skilling The Minori Expedient Lithic Technology, Armand Salvador B. 390 Mijares Reviewed by David Bulbeck The Archaeology ofCentral , A Study Chifjiy ofthe Iron 392 Age and Its Relationships, rev. ed., Wilhelm G. Solheim II Reviewed by Barbara Thiel Early Cultures ofMainland Southeast Asia, Charles Higham 395 Reviewed by Sawang Lertrit Ban Wang Hai: Excavations ofan Iron-Age Cemetery in Northern 398 , Jean-Pierre Pautreau, Patricia Mornais, and Tasana Doy-asa Reviewed by Kate Domett Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development 399 and Meanings, Julia A. B. Hegewald Reviewed by Janice Stargardt . Angkor and the Khmer Civilization, Michael D. Coe 400 Reviewed by Dawn F. Rooney Architecture and Its Models in South-East Asia, by Jacques 403 Dumarc;:ay Reviewed by Eleanor Mannikka Tiouande: Archeologie d'un Massif de Karst du Nord-Est de la 406 Grande Terre (Nouvelle-Caledonie), Christophe Sand, ed. Reviewed by Patrick V. Kirch Pacific Archaeology: Assessments and Prospects, Christophe Sand, ed. 407 Reviewed by Ethan E. Cochrane The Prehistoric Archaeology ofNorfolk Island, Southwest Pacific, 410 Atholl Anderson and Peter White, eds. Reviewed by Marshall I. Weisler An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography ofF. E. Williams, 414 1922-39, Michael W. Young and Julia Clark Reviewed by Robert L. Welsch and Sebastian Haraha Among Stone Giants, The Life ofKatherine Routledge and Her 416 Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island, Jo Anne Van Tilburg Reviewed by Joan A. Wozniak