Southern Asia, Australia, and the search for human origins
Record details
- ISBN: 9781107017856
- ISBN: 1107017858
- ISBN: 9781139084741
- ISBN: 9781107731790
- ISBN: 9781107723665
- ISBN: 1139084747
- ISBN: 1107731798
- ISBN: 1107723663
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Computer data. - Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Copyright: �2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.21 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-317) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The past and present of human origins in Southern Asia and Australia / Robin Dennell and Martin Porr -- 2. East Asia and human evolution : from cradle of mankind to cul-de-sac / Robin Dennell -- 3. "Rattling the bones" : 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 between Arabia and Australia / Robin Dennell -- 5. An Arabian perspective on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa / Huw S. Groucutt and Michael D. Petraglia -- 6. Assessing models for the dispersal of modern humans to South Asia / James Blinkhorn and Michael D. Petraglia -- 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) / Chris Hunt and Graeme Barker -- 9. Faunal biogeography in island Southeast Asia : implications for early hominin and modern human dispersals / M.J. Morwood -- 10. Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies in island Southeast Asia and their 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 / Alfred F. Pawlik, Philip J. Piper and Armand Salvador B. Mijares -- 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. Clothing and modern human behaviour : 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 modelling modern human behaviour / Glenn R. Summerhayes and Anne Ford -- 18. Modern humans spread from Aden to the Antipodes : with passengers and when? / Stephen Oppenheimer -- 19. It's the thought that counts : unpacking the package of behaviour of the first people of Australia and its adjacent islands Iain Davidson -- 20. Essential questions : modern humans and the capacity for modernity / Martin Porr. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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