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Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic - Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour During the Late Quaternary

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Ryan J. Rabett is a Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on archaeological sites in Asia and since 2007 he has been the director of a major project in northern Vietnam. He is the author of more than forty articles, which primarily focus on prehistoric subsistence and technological strategies in Asia. Klappentext This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. Zusammenfassung This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. In studying the unique character of the Asian archaeological record! it reassesses long-accepted propositions about the development of human 'modernity'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The journey east; 2. The Pleistocene planet; 3. Hominin dispersal beyond Africa during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene; 4. Regional trajectories in modern human behaviour; 5. The initial Upper Pleistocene dispersal of H. sapiens out of Africa; 6. Climate, dispersal and technological change during the Last Termination and Early Holocene in Southeast Asia; 7. Tropical subsistence strategies at the end of the last glacial; 8. Ex levis terra.

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Authors Ryan J Rabett, Ryan J. Rabett, Rabett Ryan J.
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 27.08.2012
 
EAN 9781107018297
ISBN 978-1-107-01829-7
No. of pages 383
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Asia, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Asian History, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Evolutionary anthropology

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