1st Edition
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania
1. Beginnings: Africa and Beyond
Peter Hiscock and Kim Sterelny
2. The Colonisation of South Asia by Homo sapiens: Assessing Alternative Hypotheses through Cladistic Analyses of Lithic Assemblages
Chris Clarkson, Ravi Korisettar, Ceri Shipton, Mark Collard, and Briggs Buchannan
3. The Settlement of Mainland Southeast Asia by Anatomically Modern Humans
C.F.W. Higham
4. A Middle to Late Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry from North Vietnam
A.P. Derevianko and A.V. Kandyba
5. Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia
Daud Tanudirjo
6. Northern Sahul and the Bismarck Archipelago
Glenn R. Summerhayes
7. Human Dispersal Across Southern and Central Sahul
Peter Hiscock and Kim Sterelny
8. The Peopling of East Asia: Perspectives from the Russian Far East
Andrey V. Tabarev
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
10. The Arrival of Modern Humans in North China during the Late Palaeolithic
Xing Gao and Feng Li
11. The Philippines: Origins to the End of the Pleistocene
Alfred Pawlik and Philip Piper
12. Emergence of Pleistocene Modernity and Its Background in the Korean Peninsula
Yongwook Yoo
13. Analyzing Japanese Sites Belonging to the Initial Period of the Upper Palaeolithic: Creating Macro-Models
Takeshi Ueki
14. Archaeological Materials from the Japanese Early Upper Palaeolithic and their Implications
Takuya Yamaoka
15. Pleistocene Okinawa: Unique Culture and Lifeway in the Oceanic Islands of the Western Pacific
Masaki Fujita
Biography
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.
Glenn R. 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.
Peter Hiscock researches evolutionary processes operating in human social and economic life.
