This text provides a geographically diverse overview of Stone Age sites in the wet tropics. Contemporary research indicates that, as humanity and its precursors increased their geographical and ecological ranges, rainforests were settled much earlier than previously thought.
This text provides a geographically diverse overview of Stone Age sites in the wet tropics. Contemporary research indicates that, as humanity and its precursors increased their geographical and ecological ranges, rainforests were settled much earlier than previously thought.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Julio Mercader is a professor of anthropology at the George Washington University. He has conducted numerous excavations in several African countries and has participated in archaeological research in Europe, Australia, and the New World.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paleolithic Settlement of Rain Forests / Julio Mercader PART I African Pioneers The Archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene / Joanna Casey The Middle Stone Age Occupation of Atlantic Central Africa: New Evidence from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon / Julio Mercader / Raquel Marti Foragers of the Congo: The Early Settlement of the Ituri Forest / Julio Mercader PART II Australasian Settlers Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age / F. David Bulbeck More Than a Million Years of Human Occupation in Insular Southeast Asia: The Early Archaeology of Eastern and Central Java / Francois Semah / Anne-Marie Semah / Truman Simanjuntak An Archaeological Assessment of Rain Forest Occupation in Northeast Queensland, Australia / Brit Asmussen PART III The Last Frontier: Newcomers in a New World Late Glacial and Early Holocene Occupation of Central American Tropical Forests / Anthony J. Ranere / Richard G. Cooke Holocene Climate and Human Occupation in the Orinoco / William P. Barse Archaeological Hunter-Gatherers in Tropical Forests: A View from Colombia / Santiago Mora / Cristobal Gnecco Hunter-Gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition / Betty J. Meggers / Eurico Th. Miller Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paleolithic Settlement of Rain Forests / Julio Mercader PART I African Pioneers The Archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene / Joanna Casey The Middle Stone Age Occupation of Atlantic Central Africa: New Evidence from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon / Julio Mercader / Raquel Marti Foragers of the Congo: The Early Settlement of the Ituri Forest / Julio Mercader PART II Australasian Settlers Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age / F. David Bulbeck More Than a Million Years of Human Occupation in Insular Southeast Asia: The Early Archaeology of Eastern and Central Java / Francois Semah / Anne-Marie Semah / Truman Simanjuntak An Archaeological Assessment of Rain Forest Occupation in Northeast Queensland, Australia / Brit Asmussen PART III The Last Frontier: Newcomers in a New World Late Glacial and Early Holocene Occupation of Central American Tropical Forests / Anthony J. Ranere / Richard G. Cooke Holocene Climate and Human Occupation in the Orinoco / William P. Barse Archaeological Hunter-Gatherers in Tropical Forests: A View from Colombia / Santiago Mora / Cristobal Gnecco Hunter-Gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition / Betty J. Meggers / Eurico Th. Miller Contributors Index
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