[2] Peter Bellwood received his BA and PhD from King's College, Cambridge, in 1966 and 1980 respectively.
His areas of specialization include the human population history of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological, linguistic and biological perspectives; the worldwide origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments; and the prehistory of human migration.
[4] His books have been translated into French, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian.
Bellwood is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the archaeology journal Antiquity.
[3] In July 2021 Peter Bellwood won the International Cosmos Prize in Osaka, Japan, being the first Australian recipient.