1st Edition
The World at 18 000 BP Volume 2, Low Latitudes
Contents of Volume 1: high latitudes
Introduction: Pleistocene polyphone: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum
Clive Gamble and Olga Soffer
1. The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old World: 24000–15000 BP
Teresa Madeyska
North Africa and the Middle East
2. North Africa at 18000 BP
Angela E. Close and Fred Wendorf
3. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Mediterranean Levant
Ofer Bar-Yosef
4. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Jordanian Desert
Brian F. Byrd and Andrew N. Garrard
5. Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley
Philip C. Edwards
Sub-Saharan Africa
6. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22 000–12 000 BP
Alison S. Brooks and Peter Robertshaw
7. Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18000 BP
Janette Deacon
8. A palaeoecological model for archaeological site distribution in southern Africa during the Upper Pleniglacial and Late Glacial
Peter Mitchell
9. Zimbabwe at 18000 BP
Nick J. Walker
10. A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum
John Parkington
Southern Asia, Sunda and Australia
11. South Asian climate and environment at c. 18000 BP
D.P. Agrawal, Rekha Dodia and Mala Seth
12. Hunter–gatherers of the terminal Pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India
Vidula Jayaswal
13. From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland
Peter Bellwood
14. From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18000 years ago
Rhys Jones
15. Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales during the Late Pleistocene
Harry Allen
Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18K and otherwise
H. Martin Wobst
Biography
Clive Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, UK. Gamble’s main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.
Olga Soffer is Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her primary areas of research interest combine anthropology, archaeology, and palaeontology.
