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) [cite journal | last = Baxter | first = John W. | authorlink = John W. Baxter | coauthors = Martha Christensen | title = Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim (1898-1978) | journal = Mycologia | volume = 71 | issue = 1 | pages = 45-46 | publisher = Mycological Society of America | location = | date = Jan. - Feb., 1979 | url = http://www.jstor.org/pss/3759219 | doi = | id = | accessdate = 5 February 2008] ."

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.cite web | last = Valdes | first = Cynthia O. | authorlink = Cynthia O. Valdes | coauthors = | title = About Bill Solheim | work = Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation Website | publisher = Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology, Inc. | date = | url = http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/alfred.pawlik/Solheim/wgs.html | format = HTML | doi = | accessdate = 5 February 2008] 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. [cite book | last = Solheim | first = Wilhelm G., II | authorlink = Wilhelm Solheim | coauthors = | title = Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia: Unraveling the Nusantao | publisher = University of the Philippines Press | date = 2006 | location = Diliman, Quezon City | pages = 316 | volume = | edition = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 971-542-508-9 ]

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, 1959. He has been Professor Emeritus Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa since he retired in December 1991. In 1997, he then joined the staff of the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

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