"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 emphasizes the context and variabilityof the global evidence in the search for human origins"--
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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.
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| One The Past and Present of Human Origins in Southern Asia and Australia |
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| Two East Asia and Human Evolution: From Cradle of Mankind to Cul-De-Sac |
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| Three "Rattling the Bones": The Changing Contribution of the Australian Archaeological Record to Ideas about Human Evolution |
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| Four Smoke and Mirrors: The Fossil Record for Homo sapiens between Arabia and Australia |
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| Five An Arabian Perspective on the Dispersal of Homo sapiens Out of Africa |
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| Six Assessing Models for the Dispersal of Modern Humans to South Asia |
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| Seven East of Eden: Founder Effects and the Archaeological Signature of Modern Human Dispersal |
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| Eight Missing Links, Cultural Modernity and the Dead: Anatomically Modern Humans in the Great Cave of Niah (Sarawak, Borneo) |
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| Nine Faunal Biogeography in Island Southeast Asia: Implications for Early Hominin and Modern Human Dispersals |
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| Ten Late Pleistocene Subsistence Strategies in Island Southeast Asia and Their Implications for Understanding the Development of Modern Human Behaviour |
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| Eleven Modern Humans in the Philippines: Colonization, Subsistence and New Insights into Behavioural Complexity |
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| Twelve Views from Across the Ocean: A Demographic, Social and Symbolic Framework for the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour |
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| Thirteen Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia and Sahul: Adaptive and Creative Societies with Simple Lithic Industries |
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| Fourteen Tasmanian Archaeology and Reflections on Modern Human Behaviour |
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| Fifteen Clothing and Modern Human Behaviour: The Challenge from Tasmania |
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| Sixteen Patterns of Modernity: Taphonomy, Sampling and the Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Sahul |
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| Seventeen Late Pleistocene Colonisation and Adaptation in New Guinea: Implications for Modelling Modern Human Behaviour |
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| Eighteen Modern Humans Spread from Aden to the Antipodes: With Passengers and When? |
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| Nineteen It's the Thought that Counts: Unpacking the Package of Behaviour of the First People of Australia and Its Adjacent Islands |
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| Twenty Essential Questions: Modern Humans and the Capacity for Modernity |
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Robin Dennell is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. The recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (198992) and a British Academy Research Professorship (20036), Dennell has conducted extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria, Iran, Pakistan (where he was Field Director of the British Archaeological Mission), and China. He is the author of The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia (Cambridge, 2009) and European Economic Prehistory: A New Approach (1983), among other books. He is currently a fellow of the British Academy. Martin Porr is Associate Professor of Archaeology and a member of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on issues related to Palaeolithic art and archaeology. He is the editor of Ethno-Analogy and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production (with Linda Owen,1999) and The Hominid Individual in Context: Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Landscapes, Locales and Artefacts (with Clive Gamble, 2005). He is currently engaged in research projects on the Pleistocene settlement of the Philippines; the indigenous art of the Kimberley, Northwest Australia; and the Early Upper Palaeolithic art of Central Europe.
