1st Edition
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors Following Homo Sapiens into Asia and Oceania
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors details, through archaeological analysis, the dispersal of our species, Homo sapiens, out of Africa and into Asia and Oceania.
This book provides a comprehensive picture of early human migration and provides crucial information to our understanding of the global story of human evolution and cultural diversification. Chapters from an international team of experts provide the necessary geographical and temporal coverage for this ambitious book. Controversies around timing and pathways and competing models are explored in an area where archaeological data can be scarce. Genetic and archaeological data often seem inconsistent but this book uses the latest developments in archaeological science to maximise the amount of information from genetic data. This cutting-edge analysis is used to help plot the pattern of migration or migrations that lead to the contemporary cosmopolitan distribution of our species. In the absence of up-to-date treatments, this book provides the only comprehensive coverage of this important topic and is a major scientific contribution to archaeology and evolutionary anthropology that will help shape the direction of future research for years to come.
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors is an essential text for researchers and students of archaeology, anthropology and human evolution.
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List of Contributors
Preface Takeshi Ueki
Chapter 1. Beginnings: Africa and beyond
Peter Hiscock, and Kim Sterelny
Chapter 2. The Colonisation of South Asia y Homo sapiens: assessing alternative hypotheses through cladistic analyses of lithic assemblages
Chris Clarkson, Ravi Korisettar, Ceri Shipton, Mark Collard, Briggs Buchannan
Chapter 3. The Settlement of Mainland Southeast Asia by Anatomically Modern Humans
Charles Higham
Chapter 4. A Middle To Late Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry from North Vietnam
A.P. Derevianko and A.V. Kandyba
Chapter 5. Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia
Daud Tanudirjo
Chapter 6. Northern Sahul and the Bismarck Archipelago
Glenn R. Summerhayes
Chapter 7. Human Dispersals Across Southern and Central Sahul
Peter Hiscock and Kim Sterelny
Chapter 8. The peopling of East Asia: Perspectives from the Russian Far East.
A.V. Tabarev
Chapter 9. Early Peopling in and around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era
Hsiao-chun Hung, Chin-yung Chao, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Mike T. Carson
Chapter 10. The Arrival of Modern Humans in North China during the Late Palaeolithic.
Xing Gao and Li Feng
Chapter 11. The Philippines: Origins to the End of the Pleistocene
Alfred Pawlik and Philip Piper
Chapter 12. Emergence of Pleistocene Modernity and its Background in the Korean Peninsula
Yongwook Yoo
Chapter 13 Analyzing Japanese sites belonging to the Initial Period of the Upper Palaeolithic. Creating Macro-models.
Takeshi Ueki
Chapter 14. Archaeological Materials from the Japanese Early Upper Palaeolithic and their Implications
Takuya Yamaoka
Chapter 15. Pleistocene Okinawa: unique culture and lifeway in the Oceanic islands of the Western Pacific
Masaki Fujita
Appendix A. Comparision of Radiocarbon and Calibrated Dates
Yuichiro Kudo
Appendix B: Analyzing the Age and heating History of Archaeological Materials Using Remnant Magnetization
Hideo Sakai
Index
Biography
Peter Hiscock researches evolutionary processes operating in human social and economic life.
Glenn Summerhayes has worked on the archaeology of Papua New Guinea for the past 40 years. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Anthropology at Otago University.
Takeshi Ueki is a Professor Emeritus at Kyoritsu Women’ s University System. He specializes in the Upper Palaeolithic Period of the Japanese Archipelago, and is Chairperson of the Japan Association for Archaeoinformatics.
