Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dennell, Robin

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens between East Africa and Australia before 30,000 years ago. With contributions from leading experts that take into account the latest archaeological evidence from India and Southeast Asia, this volume critically reviews current models of the timing and character of the spread of modern humans out of Africa. It also demonstrates that the evidence from Australasia should receive much wider and more serious consideration in its own right if we want to understand how our species achieved its global distribution. Critically examining the 'Out of Africa' model, this book emphasises the context and variability of the global evidence in the search for human origins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107722750
• Artikelnr.: 40683435

Inhaltsangabe

1. The past and present of human origins in Southern Asia and Australia
Robin Dennell and Martin Porr; 2. Asia and human evolution: from cradle of
mankind to cul-de-sac Robin Dennell; 3. The changing contribution of the
Australian archaeological record to ideas about human evolution Sandra
Bowdler; 4. Smoke and mirrors: the fossil record for Homo sapiens in
southern Asia Robin Dennell; 5. An Arabian perspective on the dispersal of
Homo sapiens out of Africa Huw Groucutt and Michael Petraglia; 6. The
Indian subcontinent and modern human origins Michael Petraglia and James
Blinkhorn; 7. East of Eden: founder effects and the archaeological
signature of modern human dispersal Christopher Clarkson; 8. Missing links,
cultural modernity and the dead: anatomically modern humans in the Great
Cave of Niah (Sarawak, Borneo) Graeme Barker and Chris Hunt; 9. Faunal
biogeography in island Southeast Asia: implications for early hominin and
modern human dispersals Mike Morwood; 10. Late Pleistocene subsistence
strategies in Island Southeast Asia and its implications for understanding
the development of modern human behaviour Philip J. Piper and Ryan J.
Rabett; 11. Modern humans in the Philippines: colonization, subsistence and
new insights into behavioural complexity Armand Salvador B. Mijares, Philip
J. Piper and Alfred F. Pawlik; 12. Views from across the ocean: a
demographic, social and symbolic framework for the appearance of modern
human behaviour Philip J. Habgood and Natalie R. Franklin; 13. Early modern
humans in Island Southeast Asia and Sahul: adaptive and creative societies
with simple lithic industries Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor; 14. Tasmanian
archaeology and reflections on modern human behaviour Richard Cosgrove,
Anne Pike-Tay and Wil Roebroeks; 15. Explaining prehistoric human
behavioural change: the challenge from Tasmania Ian Gilligan; 16. Patterns
of modernity: taphonomy, sampling and the Pleistocene archaeological record
of Sahul Michelle C. Langley; 17. Late Pleistocene colonisation and
adaptation in New Guinea: implications for debates on modern human
behaviour Glenn R. Summerhayes and Anne Ford; 18. Modern human spread from
Aden to the Antipodes, and then Europe: with passengers and when? Stephen
Oppenheimer; 19. It's the thought that counts: unpacking the package of
behaviour of the first Australians Iain Davidson; 20. Essential questions:
'modern humans' and the capacity for modernity Martin Porr.