Wilhelm Solheim

This article refers to Wilhelm G. Solheim II, the Anthropologist. For his father, Wilhelm G. Solheim I the botanist, see Wilhelm Solheim (botanist).[1]

Wilhelm G. Solheim II is an American anthropologist recognized as most senior practitioner of archaeology in Southeast Asia, and as a pioneer in the study of Philippine and Southeast Asian prehistoric archaeology.[2] He is perhaps best known, however, for hypothesizing the existence of the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN), one of two dominant hypotheses regarding the peopling of the Asia-Pacific region during the Neolithic age.[3]

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Education

Solheim began his archaeological training at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent several semesters at the University of the Philippines under Prof. H. Otley Beyer. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1959.

He has been Professor Emeritus Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa since he retired in December 1991.

In 1997, he joined the staff of the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.[2]

Selected works

Sources

  1. ^ Baxter, John W.; Martha Christensen (Jan. - Feb., 1979). "Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim (1898-1978)". Mycologia (Mycological Society of America) 71 (1): 45–46. JSTOR 3759219. 
  2. ^ a b Valdes, Cynthia O.. "About Bill Solheim". Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation Website. Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology, Inc.. http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/alfred.pawlik/Solheim/wgs.html. Retrieved 5 February 2008. 
  3. ^ Solheim, Wilhelm G., II (2006). Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia: Unraveling the Nusantao. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. pp. 316. ISBN 971-542-508-9. http://books.google.com/?id=SiOgq0OPT_MC&printsec=frontcover. 

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