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First Migrants Ancient Migration in Global Perspective.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- A Note on Dating Terminology
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration
- Migration in Prehistoric Times
- Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations
- Migrations in History and Ethnography
- The Helvetii
- Ancient China
- Medieval Iceland
- The Nuer of Sudan
- The Iban of Sarawak
- Relevance for Prehistoric Migration?
- Notes
- 2 Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration
- Changes in Time and Space
- Genes, Languages, Cultures
- Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration
- Demic Diffusion
- Language Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory
- Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History
- Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology
- Dating the Spreads of Language Families
- Cultures in Archaeology
- Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations?
- Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory
- One End of the Spectrum
- Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration
- The Other End of the Spectrum
- Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration
- Notes
- 3 Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species
- Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa
- First Hominin Migration(s)
- Out of Africa 1
- Unfolding Species in Time and Space
- Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea
- Out of Africa 2?
- Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens
- The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology
- The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000-45,000 Years Ago
- Africa
- The Levant and Southern Asia
- Northern and Western Eurasia
- The Fate of the Neanderthals
- Explanations?
- Notes
- 4 Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands
- Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The Americas
- Crossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland
- How Many Settlers?
- The First Australo-Melanesians
- The Archaeology of Island Colonization
- Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia
- Heading North and Offshore Again
- Japan
- The Americas
- Getting to Beringia
- Circumventing the Ice
- The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization
- Notes
- 5 Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World
- Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia
- After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait
- Na-Dene and Yeniseian
- The Apachean Migration
- The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America
- The Thule Migration and the Inuit
- The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara
- Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration
- Holocene Australia
- Pama-Nyungan Migration?
- Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene
- Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans?
- Notes
- 6 The First Farmers and Their Offspring
- Where and When Did Food Production Begin?