S. G. Webb: The First Boat People

Cover: 9781107406476 | The First Boat People | S. G. Webb | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2012

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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; Appendices; References.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107406476
ISBN-10:	1107406471
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Webb, S. G.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	S. G. Webb
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.08.2012
Gewicht:	0,491 kg