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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webb, Steve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47.
Temas:
Navigation, Prehistoric > Australia.
Navigation, Prehistoric > Africa.
Prehistoric peoples > Australia.
Prehistoric peoples > Africa.
Navigation préhistorique > Australie.
Navigation préhistorique > Afrique.
NATURE > Fossils.
Antiquities
Navigation, Prehistoric
Prehistoric peoples
Einwanderung
Pleistozän
Société préhistorique > Australie.
Société préhistorique > Afrique.
Australia > Antiquities.
Africa > Antiquities.
Australie > Antiquités.
Africa
Australia
Australien
Aborigines.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Prologue; 1. Going to Sunda: Lower Pleistocene transcontinental migration
  • 2. Pleistocene population growth
  • 3. From Sunda to Sahul: transequatorial migration in the Upper Pleistocene
  • 4. Upper Pleistocene migration patterns on Sahul
  • 5. Palaeoenvironments, megafauna and the Upper Pleistocene settlement of Central Australia
  • 6. Upper Pleistocene Australians: the Willandran people
  • 7. Origins: a morphological puzzle
  • 8. Migratory time frames and Upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia
  • 9. An incomplete jigsaw puzzle.

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