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The first boat people /
The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
47. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at that time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians. This is a stimulating account for students and researchers in biological anthropology, human evolution and archaeology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107322004 1107322006 1139810448 9781139810449 1107196299 9781107196292 1107316618 9781107316614 1107317576 9781107317574 1107318467 9781107318465 1299399681 9781299399686 1107315638 9781107315631 0511839731 9780511839733 0511600526 9780511600524 |