The global prehistory of human migration / / edited by Peter Bellwood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459756903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-118-97058-6
• Edizione: [Paperback edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1122 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.809
• Soggetti: Human beings - Migrations - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Table of Contents; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on Contributors; 1: Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity; Migration in human prehistory; Differing perspectives and sources of data on prehistoric migration; Important definitions and abbreviations used in this volume; Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene; 2: The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia; Miocene origins and Pliocene dispersals; Paranthropus and early Homo in the Plio-Pleistocene; Early Pleistocene corridors between Africa and Eurasia; Conclusions; Note; References and further reading3: Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa - how many times?; The oldest hominin records in Eurasia - Out of Africa 1; Out of Africa 2; Out of Africa 3?; References and further reading; 4: Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology; African origin of Homo sapiens: genetic evidence; African origin of Homo sapiens: fossil evidence; How many dispersals from Africa?; Moving east: initial colonization of Asia and Sahul; Moving west: the colonization of Europe; Concluding thoughts; References and further reading; 5: Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeologyModels of modernity and their implications for identifying dispersion; The dispersal of anatomically modern humans and the nature of cultural transitions in the archaeological record; References; 6: Pleistocene ; migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos; Homo sapiens in Indonesia; References; 7: The human colonization of Australia; References; 8: The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology; Note; References; 9: The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics; Migration to Beringia; Migration into North and South AmericaControversial migration theories; Summary and outlook; References; Part II: Holocene migrations; 10: Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion; How and why did agriculture begin?; References; 11: Human migrations and the histories of major language families; How language families might have spread: lessons from history; Dates of spread and homelands of language families; References; 12: Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics; Niger-Congo speakers and ancient migrations in Africa; Archaeological correlations for early Niger-Congo dispersal; Nilo-Saharans and the Holocene pastoral SaharaCushites in the Horn of Africa; Khoesan peoples and the Eastern African Microlithic; References; 13: Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology; The Green Sahara and its aftermath; Pastoral peoples in East Africa and the Cape region of South Africa; Archaeology and the Bantu expansions; Later migrations; References; 14: Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics; References; 15: Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history; Afroasiatic classification and homeland; The dispersal of the Cushitic languages; The dispersal of the Omotic languages; The dispersal of the Semitic languages
• Sommario/riassunto: Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory. Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, genetics, biology, linguistics, and moreIncludes contributions from a diverse international team of authors, representing 17 countries and a variety of disciplinesDivided into two sections, covering the Pleistocene and Hol