Dec 3, 2024. Writing in a SAPIENS op-ed, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Director Stephen Acabado and co-authors argue for dispensing with the Eurocentric "three-age system" to categorize prehistory. Instead, he supports research that "emphasizes the ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples and their diverse oral and cultural traditions... [which] means placing more value on textiles, ceramics, and wood as significant technological objects of innovation."