In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-54780-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 764 g

In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors details through archaeological analysis, the dispersal of our species, Homo sapiens, providing a broad examination of evidence for early human migration into Asia and Oceania. Those migrations are crucial to our understanding of the global story of human evolution and cultural diversification. Chapters from an international team of experts provide the new geographical and temporal coverage. Controversies around timing, pathways, and competing models of migrations are explored in regions where archaeological data can be scarce. Genetic and archaeological data often seem inconsistent, but this book uses syntheses of archaeological evidence to give an updated view of our current knowledge of when and how these regions were first settled. These analyses help us understand the pattern of human movement and adaptation that led to the contemporary distribution of our species. This book provides the latest coverage of this important topic and contributes to thinking about the history of our species.

In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors is an essential text for researchers and students of archaeology, anthropology, and human evolution.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Summerhayes, Glenn

Hiscock, Peter

Ueki, Takeshi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Beginnings: Africa and Beyond 2. The Colonisation of South Asia by Homo sapiens: Assessing Alternative Hypotheses through Cladistic Analyses of Lithic Assemblages 3. The Settlement of Mainland Southeast Asia by Anatomically Modern Humans 4. A Middle to Late Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry from North Vietnam 5. Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia 6. Northern Sahul and the Bismarck Archipelago 7. Human Dispersal Across Southern and Central Sahul 8. The Peopling of East Asia: Perspectives from the Russian Far East 9. Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era 10. The Arrival of Modern Humans in North China during the Late Palaeolithic 11. The Philippines: Origins to the End of the Pleistocene 12. Emergence of Pleistocene Modernity and Its Background in the Korean Peninsula 13. Analyzing Japanese Sites Belonging to the Initial Period of the Upper Palaeolithic: Creating Macro-Models 14. Archaeological Materials from the Japanese Early Upper Palaeolithic and their Implications 15. Pleistocene Okinawa: Unique Culture and Lifeway in the Oceanic Islands of the Western Pacific

Über Autor(innen)

Takeshi Ueki is a Professor Emeritus at Kyoritsu Women’ s University System. He specializes in the Upper Palaeolithic Period of the Japanese Archipelago and is Chairperson of the Japan Association for Archaeoinformatics.

Glenn R. Summerhayes has worked on the archaeology of Papua New Guinea for the past 40 years. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Anthropology at Otago University.

Peter Hiscock researches evolutionary processes operating in human social and economic life.