Peter Bellwood, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University, earned his PhD from King’s College, Cambridge, UK, in 1980. He began his academic career at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1967 and joined ANU in 1973. He is a prolific author and editor, with notable works including The Five-Million-Year Odyssey (2022) and First Migrants (2013). Bellwood is a distinguished Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the British Academy, and the Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (Rome). In 2021, he received the prestigious International Cosmos Prize in Osaka, Japan.