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The Global Prehistory of Human Migration is drawn from content previously published in the five-volume
Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. The chapters in this volume are devoted exclusively to migration in prehistory and are edited by archaeologist Peter Bellwood. They cover all periods and places in human prehistory, from the first hominin migrations out of Africa about two million years ago to the end of prehistory, in some cases only a few centuries ago. The volume is truly multidisciplinary and is the first of its kind to cover the whole world, and all periods, from three major disciplines: archaeology, linguistics, and genetics. The international team of contributors, which represents 17 countries, comprises leading scholars in their fields. Chapters are illustrated by informative maps and diagrams. Now in an affordable single-volume format, this volume is an important tool for scholars of migration studies in the disciplines of history, anthropology, archaeology, genetics, biology, linguistics, and more.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors viii
1 Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity 1
Peter Bellwood Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene 7 2 The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia 9
Christine Hertler, Angela Bruch, and Michael Märker 3 Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa - how many times? 18
Colin Groves 4 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology 26
Mark Stoneking and Katerina Harvati 5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology 38
Peter Hiscock 6 Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos 49
François Sémah and Anne-Marie Sémah 7 The human colonization of Australia 55
Peter Hiscock 8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology 61
David J. Meltzer 9 The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics 70
Simon G. Southerton Part II: Holocene migrations 77 10 Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion 79
Peter Bellwood 11 Human migrations and the histories of major language families 87
Peter Bellwood 12 Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics 96
Christopher Ehret 13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology 107
Peter Robertshaw 14 Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics 115
Evelyne Heyer and Jorge Rocha 15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history 125
Václav Bla?ek 16 Levant and North Africa: archaeology 133
Gregory P. Gilbert 17 Ana tolia and the Balkans: archaeology 139
Mehmet Özdogan 18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history 146
Mark G. Thomas, Toomas Kivisild, Lounes Chikhi, and Joachim Burger 19 Europe and western Asia: Indo-European linguistic history 157
Paul Heggarty 20 Europe: Neolithic colonization 168
Ron Pinhasi 21 Northern Europe and Russia: Uralic linguistic history 178
Václav Bla?ek 22 Central Asia: genetics and archaeology 184
Ron Pinhasi and Evelyne Heyer 23 Northern and northeastern Asia: archaeology 191
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin 24 Northeastern and central Asia: "Altaic" linguistic history 197
Alexander Vovin 25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history 204
Randy J. LaPolla 26 Eastern Asia: archaeology 209
Zhang Chi and Hung Hsiao-chun 27 Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology 217
Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham 28 Japan: archaeology 224
Mark J. Hudson 29 Korea: archaeology 230
Seonbok Yi 30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history 235
Franklin C. Southworth and David W. McAlpin 31 South Asia: archaeology 245
Dorian Q. Fuller 32 Trans-Indian Ocean migration 254
Atholl Anderson 33 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history 259
Paul Sidwell 34 Southeast Asian mainland: archaeology 269
C. F. W. Higham 35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history 276
Robert Blust 36 Southeast Asian islands: archaeology 284
Peter Bellwood 37 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: human genetics 293
Murray P. Cox 38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past 302
Bryant Allen 39 Oceania: Lapita migration 308
Matthew Spriggs 40 Micronesian archaeology 314
Mike T. Carson 41 Polynesia, East and South, including transpacifi c migration 320
Atholl Anderson 42 Australia: linguistic history 327
Patrick McConvell 43 North America: Na Dene/Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics 333
R. G. Matson and M. P. R. Magne 44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history 340
Michael Fortescue 45 North America: Paleoeskimo and Inuit archaeology 346
T. Max Friesen 46 Eastern North America: archaeology and linguistics 354
Dean R. Snow 47 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: linguistic history 362
Jane H. Hill 48 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: archaeology 369
Steven A. LeBlanc 49 Caribbean Islands: archaeology 376
William Keegan 50 Amazonia: linguistic history 384
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 51 Amazonia: archaeology 392
Michael Heckenberger 52 Andes: linguistic history 401
Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones 53 Andes: archaeology 410
David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty Index 417
About the author
Peter Bellwood is Emeritus Professor (Archaeology) at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of
First Farmers (Blackwell, 2005),
Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2007), and
First Migrants (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). His book
First Farmers won a 2006 Book Award from the Society for American Archaeology. He has also written and edited many other books on Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory. His current research and writing are on prehistoric migrations around the world, especially of early food-producing populations, with a focus on Southeast Asia. He is currently involved in archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Summary
Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory.
