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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.
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological,
skeletal and environment evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific
documents the migration of humans into Asia, and explains why we
were so successful as a colonising species. The colonisation of
Asia by our species was one of the most momentous events in human
evolution. Starting around or before 100,000 years ago, humans
began to disperse out of Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, and
then across southern Asia through India, Southeast Asia and south
China. They learnt to build boats and sail to the islands of
Southeast Asia, from which they reached Australia by 50,000 years
ago. Around that time, humans also dispersed from the Levant
through Iran, Central Asia, southern Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan
Plateau, north China and the Japanese islands, and they also
colonised Siberia as far north as the Arctic Ocean. By 30,000 years
ago, humans had colonised the whole of Asia from Arabia to the
Pacific, and from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean as well as the
European Peninsula. In doing so, we replaced all other types of
humans such as Neandertals and ended five million years of human
diversity. Using interdisciplinary source material, From Arabia to
the Pacific charts this process and draws conclusions as to the
factors which made it possible. It will be invaluable to scholars
of prehistory, and archaeologists and anthropologists interested in
how the human species moved out of Africa and spread throughout
Asia.
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological,
skeletal and environment evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific
documents the migration of humans into Asia, and explains why we
were so successful as a colonising species. The colonisation of
Asia by our species was one of the most momentous events in human
evolution. Starting around or before 100,000 years ago, humans
began to disperse out of Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, and
then across southern Asia through India, Southeast Asia and south
China. They learnt to build boats and sail to the islands of
Southeast Asia, from which they reached Australia by 50,000 years
ago. Around that time, humans also dispersed from the Levant
through Iran, Central Asia, southern Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan
Plateau, north China and the Japanese islands, and they also
colonised Siberia as far north as the Arctic Ocean. By 30,000 years
ago, humans had colonised the whole of Asia from Arabia to the
Pacific, and from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean as well as the
European Peninsula. In doing so, we replaced all other types of
humans such as Neandertals and ended five million years of human
diversity. Using interdisciplinary source material, From Arabia to
the Pacific charts this process and draws conclusions as to the
factors which made it possible. It will be invaluable to scholars
of prehistory, and archaeologists and anthropologists interested in
how the human species moved out of Africa and spread throughout
Asia.
This is the first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and
Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the
expansion of Homo sapiens between East Africa and Australia before
30,000 years ago. With contributions from leading experts that take
into account the latest archaeological evidence from India and
Southeast Asia, this volume critically reviews current models of
the timing and character of the spread of modern humans out of
Africa. It also demonstrates that the evidence from Australasia
should receive much wider and more serious consideration in its own
right if we want to understand how our species achieved its global
distribution. Critically examining the 'Out of Africa' model, this
book emphasises the context and variability of the global evidence
in the search for human origins.
This volume reports on ongoing fieldwork by the British Mission,
plus the results of a previous season 1986-90, which focused on the
Jhelum Basin in the Pabbi Hills in northern Pakistan. The aim was
to find evidence for early hominid occupation and to place this in
its environmental and chronological context'. Much of the volume
presents, mostly in tables, the geological and environmental data
and fossilised occurrences from a series of surveys. This is
followed by a discussion of the stone artefacts and a synthesis of
results which makes comparison with material from elsewhere in Asia
and East Africa.
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.
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