1st Edition
From Arabia to the Pacific How Our Species Colonised Asia
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Invasion Biology and the Colonisation of Asia
Chapter 2 The African background: hominins to humans
Chapter 3 The climatic and environmental background to the human colonisation of Asia
Part 1 Prologue The southern dispersal across Asia
Chapter 4 Arabia to the Thar Desert
Chapter 5 The Oriental Realm of South Asia
Chapter 6 Sunda and Mainland Southeast Asia
Chapter 7 Wallacea and Sahul
Part 2 Prologue The northern dispersal across Asia
Chapter 8 The Levant and Iran
Chapter 9 Central Asia, southern Siberia and Mongolia
Chapter 10 China
Chapter 11 Humans on the edge of Asia: The Arctic, Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands
Chapter 12 How did we manage to colonise Asia?
Index
Biography
Robin Dennell is Emeritus Research Professor at Exeter University, UK. In his early career, he was primarily interested in the Neolithic of Europe and Southwest Asia. During 1981–1999, his main research was on the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of Pakistan. In 2003, he was awarded a three-year British Academy Research Professorship to write The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia (2009), the first overview of the Asian Early Palaeolithic and Pleistocene. Since 2005, he has conducted research with Chinese colleagues into the Pleistocene and Palaeolithic of China. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
