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The global prehistory of human migration /
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. Presents interdisciplinary coverage of thi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley Blackwell,
2015.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on Contributors; 1: Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity; Migration in human prehistory; Differing perspectives and sources of data on prehistoric migration; Important definitions and abbreviations used in this volume; Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene; 2: The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia; Miocene origins and Pliocene dispersals; Paranthropus and early Homo in the Plio-Pleistocene; Early Pleistocene corridors between Africa and Eurasia; Conclusions; Note
- 5: Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeologyModels of modernity and their implications for identifying dispersion; The dispersal of anatomically modern humans and the nature of cultural transitions in the archaeological record; References; 6: Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos; Homo sapiens in Indonesia; References; 7: The human colonization of Australia; References; 8: The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology; Note; References; 9: The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics; Migration to Beringia
- Migration into North and South AmericaControversial migration theories; Summary and outlook; References; Part II: Holocene migrations; 10: Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion; How and why did agriculture begin?; References; 11: Human migrations and the histories of major language families; How language families might have spread: lessons from history; Dates of spread and homelands of language families; References; 12: Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics; Niger-Congo speakers and ancient migrations in Africa; Archaeological correlations for early Niger-Congo dispersal
- Nilo-Saharans and the Holocene pastoral SaharaCushites in the Horn of Africa; Khoesan peoples and the Eastern African Microlithic; References; 13: Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology; The Green Sahara and its aftermath; Pastoral peoples in East Africa and the Cape region of South Africa; Archaeology and the Bantu expansions; Later migrations; References; 14: Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics; References; 15: Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history; Afroasiatic classification and homeland; The dispersal of the Cushitic languages; The dispersal of the Omotic languages