The palaeolithic settlement of Asia / Robin Dennell.
Dennell, Robin.| Call Number | 950/.1 |
| Author | Dennell, Robin, author. |
| Title | The palaeolithic settlement of Asia / Robin Dennell. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxiii, 548 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge world archaeology |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Asia and its place in palaeoanthropology -- The African background to the colonisation of Asia -- The climatic background to hominin settlement in Asia before 1 MA -- The earliest inhabitants of Southwest Asia -- The earliest inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia and China -- "Out of Africa 1" reconsidered and the earliest colonisation of Asia -- The climatic and environmental background to hominin settlement in Asia between ca. 1 Ma and the last interglacial -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record for Southwest and Central Asia -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record of the Indian subcontinent -- The middle archaeological record of China and Southeast Asia -- Human evolution in Asia during the middle pleistocene. |
| Summary | This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic background from Southwest, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as China. He presents an authoritative and comprehensive framework for investigations of Asia's oldest societies, challenges many long-standing assumptions about its earliest inhabitants, and places Asia centrally in the discussions of human evolution in the past two million years. |
| Subject | Prehistoric peoples Asia. Human settlements Asia. Human beings Migrations. Antiquities, Prehistoric Asia. Asia Antiquities. |
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| Summary | This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic background from Southwest, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as China. He presents an authoritative and comprehensive framework for investigations of Asia's oldest societies, challenges many long-standing assumptions about its earliest inhabitants, and places Asia centrally in the discussions of human evolution in the past two million years. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Asia and its place in palaeoanthropology -- The African background to the colonisation of Asia -- The climatic background to hominin settlement in Asia before 1 MA -- The earliest inhabitants of Southwest Asia -- The earliest inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia and China -- "Out of Africa 1" reconsidered and the earliest colonisation of Asia -- The climatic and environmental background to hominin settlement in Asia between ca. 1 Ma and the last interglacial -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record for Southwest and Central Asia -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record of the Indian subcontinent -- The middle archaeological record of China and Southeast Asia -- Human evolution in Asia during the middle pleistocene. |
| Subject | Prehistoric peoples Asia. Human settlements Asia. Human beings Migrations. Antiquities, Prehistoric Asia. Asia Antiquities. |
| Multimedia |