LEADER 03596nam 2200553 450 001 9910583020103321 005 20220805083929.0 010 $a0-12-814799-7 010 $a0-12-814798-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000003666469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5389631 035 $a(PPN)227840399 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003666469 100 $a20180604d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMade in Africa $ehominin explorations and the Australian skeletal evidence /$fSteve Webb 210 1$aLondon, United Kingdom :$cAcademic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (422 pages) $cillustrations 327 $gPart I.$tThe longest walk:$tA view from Kakadu --$tAncestors of the ancestors --$tLeaving Africa --$tOn the road again --$gPart II.$tPeople at the end of the world:$tDreaming lakes : history and geography of the Willandra system --$tThe osteology of WLH 1, 2 and 3 --$tOne of a kind? WLH 50 --$tImpenetrable obscurity --$gPart III.$tThe Willandra Lake collection : a record:$tA descriptive analysis of the first Australians --$tWillandra Lakes skeletal collection : a photographic and descriptive catalogue. 330 $a"[D]escribes and documents the largest collection of modern human remains in the world from its time period. These Australian fossils, which represent modern humans at the end of their great 20,000 km journey from Africa, may be reburied in the next two years at the request of the Aboriginal community. Part one of the book provides an overview of modern humans, their ancestors, and their journeys, explores the construct of human evolution over the last two and a half million years, and defines the background to the first hominins and later modern humans to leave Africa, cross the world and meet other archaic peoples who had also travelled and undergone similar evolutionary pathways. Part two focuses on Australia and the evidence for its earliest people. The Willandra Lakes fossils represent the earliest arrivals and are the largest and most diverse late Pleistocene collection from this part of the world. Although twenty to twenty-five thousand years younger than the oldest archaeological site in Australia, they exemplify the migrating end-point of the human story that reflect a diversity and culture not recorded elsewhere in the world. Part three records the Willandra Lake Collection itself from a photographic and descriptive perspective. Evolutionary biologists and geneticists will find this book to be a valuable documentation of the 20,000 km hominid migration from Africa to the most distant parts of the world, and of the challenges and findings of the Willandra Lake Collection"--Page 4 of cover. 606 $aFossil hominids$zAustralia 606 $aHominids$zAustralia 606 $aHuman evolution$zAustralia 607 $aAustralia 607 $aNew South Wales$zWillandra Lakes Region$2fast 607 $aAfrica$2fast 607 $aAustralia$2fast 608 $aCatalog 608 $acatalogs (documents)$2aat 608 $aCatalogs.$2fast 608 $aCatalogs.$2lcgft 608 $aCatalogues.$2rvmgf 615 0$aFossil hominids 615 0$aHominids 615 0$aHuman evolution 676 $a569.9 700 $aWebb$b Steve$052757 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583020103321 996 $aMade in Africa$91922055 997 $aUNINA