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Bellwood Peter |
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First migrants : ancient migration in global perspective / / Peter Bellwood |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human beings - Migrations |
Prehistoric peoples |
Migrations of nations |
Archaeology and history |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; A Note on Dating Terminology; Acknowledgements; 1 The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration; Migration in Prehistoric Times; Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations; Migrations in History and Ethnography; The Helvetii; Ancient China; Medieval Iceland; The Nuer of Sudan; The Iban of Sarawak; Relevance for Prehistoric Migration?; Notes; 2 Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration; Changes in Time and Space - Genes, Languages, Cultures; Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration |
Demic DiffusionLanguage Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory; Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History; Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology; Dating the Spreads of Language Families; Cultures in Archaeology - Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations?; Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory; One End of the Spectrum - Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration; The Other End of the Spectrum - Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration; Notes; 3 Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species |
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Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in AfricaFirst Hominin Migration(s) - Out of Africa 1; Unfolding Species in Time and Space; Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea; Out of Africa 2?; Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens; The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology; The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000-45,000 Years Ago; Africa; The Levant and Southern Asia; Northern and Western Eurasia; The Fate of the Neanderthals; Explanations?; Notes |
4 Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands - Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The AmericasCrossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland; How Many Settlers?; The First Australo-Melanesians; The Archaeology of Island Colonization - Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia; Heading North and Offshore Again - Japan; The Americas; Getting to Beringia; Circumventing the Ice; The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization; Notes; 5 Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World; Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia; After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait |
Na-Dene and YeniseianThe Apachean Migration; The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America; The Thule Migration and the Inuit; The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara; Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration; Holocene Australia - Pama-Nyungan Migration?; Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene; Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans?; Notes; 6 The First Farmers and Their Offspring; Where and When Did Food Production Begin?; Why Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, but Not Others? |
Why Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the worldAn archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Afric |
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