Robin Dennell

The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Authoritative discussion of the evidence for the earliest inhabitants of Asia, challenging long-standing assumptions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 574
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1263g
• ISBN-13: 9780521848664
• ISBN-10: 0521848660
• Artikelnr.: 25043962

Autorenporträt

Robin Dennell

Inhaltsangabe

1. Asia and its place in palaeoanthropology
2. The African background to the colonisation of Asia
3. The climatic background to hominin settlement in Asia before a million years ago
4. The earliest inhabitants of Southwest Asia
5. The earliest inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia, and China
6. 'Out of Africa 1' reconsidered and the earliest colonisation of Asia
7. The climatic and environmental background to hominin settlement in Asia between ca. 1 Ma and the last interglacial
8. The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of Southwest and Central Asia
9. The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of the Indian sub-continent
10. The archaeological record of China and Southeast Asia ca. 800-125 ka
11. Human evolution in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene.