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Informationen zum Autor Robin Dennell is Professor of Human Origins at the University of Sheffield. A Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow and British Academy Research Professor, he is the author of European Economic Prehistory and Early Hominin Landscapes in Northern Pakistan: Investigations in the Pabbi Hills. Klappentext Authoritative discussion of the evidence for the earliest inhabitants of Asia, challenging long-standing assumptions. Zusammenfassung Authoritative synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100!000 years ago. Dennell sets out a structured framework of the first 2 million years of hominin settlement by integrating the archaeological! fossil and environmental evidence at continent level. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
