Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins by Dennell, Robin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Tables List of Contributors Chapter 1 The Past and Present of Human Origins in Southern Asia and Australia

Introduction Issues and Challenges East of Africa Three Major Debates about Homo Sapiens and the Southern Rim of Asia

When Did Homo sapiens First Appear between Africa and Australia? Multi-Regional Evolution or Replacement? How Ancient Is “Modern”?

Conclusion

Chapter 2 East Asia and Human Evolution From Cradle of Mankind to Cul-De-Sac

Introduction The East as Ancient The East as Conservative

Helmut de Terra Teilhard de Chardin Hallam Movius G. H. R. von Koenigswald

Assessment The East as “Primitive” and “Conservative” Handaxes: Why the Big Deal? Wider Perspectives

East and West: The Development of a World View The World View: Near, Middle and Far East Western Perceptions of the Far East

Discussion: The Movius Line and the Advent of Homo sapiens

Chapter 3 “Rattling the Bones” The Changing Contribution of the Australian Archaeological Record to Ideas about Human Evolution

Encountering the “Primitive” Skullology Studies of Australian and Tasmanian Skulls Australia: Fossil and Archaeological Records Fossils at Last Acknowledgments

Chapter 4 Smoke and Mirrors The Fossil Record for Homo sapiens between Arabia and Australia

Introduction The Fossil Hominin Record from Southern Asia, 250–30 ka

The Levant South Asia Sri Lanka Mainland Southeast Asia (Malaysian Peninsula, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)

Thailand Laos Vietnam

Island Southeast Asia

Ngandong Punung Wadjak Niah Cave The Philippines

China

Tianyuandong Gaitou Cave, Qilinshan Hill Ganjian Cave, Tubo Tongtianyan Cave, Liujiang Huanglong Cave, Yunxi County Zhirendong, Mulanshan (Mulan Mountain) Longlindong and Maludongdong

Australia

Discussion

The Need for More, and Better, Data Interpretative Frameworks: Where Paradigms Clash Towards the Future

Chapter 5 An Arabian Perspective on the Dispersal of Homo sapiens Out of Africa

Introduction Models for the Dispersal of Homo sapiens Out of Africa Hominin Fossils Genetics Archaeology Developing an Interdisciplinary Perspective Evaluating the Models Conclusion Acknowledgments

Chapter 6 Assessing Models for the Dispersal of Modern Humans to South Asia

Introduction Models for Dispersal of Homo sapiens into South Asia The Fossil Hominin Record of South Asia

Current Models and the Human Skeletal Record

Routes of Dispersal

Current Models and the Timing and Routes of Dispersals

Genetic Evidence

Current Models and Genetic Coalescence Data

Archaeological Evidence

Current Models and Cultural Transitions

Evaluation of Models for Modern Human Dispersals to South Asia Conclusion Acknowledgments

Chapter 7 East of Eden Founder Effects and the Archaeological Signature of Modern Human Dispersal

Introduction Africa The Levant Arabia South Asia Southeast Asia Australia and Melanesia Diminishing Diversity East of Africa Conclusion Acknowledgments

Chapter 8 Missing Links, Cultural Modernity and the Dead Anatomically Modern Humans in the Great Cave of Niah (Sarawak, Borneo)

Introduction The Discovery of the Deep Skull The West Mouth Sedimentary Sequence and the Location of the Deep Skull The Sediments within and around the Deep Skull The Niah Deep Skull and Cultural Modernity in Southeast Asia Acknowledgments

Chapter 9 Faunal Biogeography in Island Southeast Asia Implications for Early Hominin and Modern Human Dispersals

Introduction Faunal Dispersals Island Faunal Sequences and Evolution Early Hominin Dispersals Modern Human Dispersals Austronesian Colonisation of ISEA Japanese Colonisation of ISEA Conclusions Acknowledgments

Chapter 10 Late Pleistocene Subsistence Strategies in Island Southeast Asia and Their Implications for Understanding the Development of Modern Human Behaviour

Introduction Palaeoenvironment of Late Pleistocene Southeast Asia Foraging Strategies in the Late Pleistocene of Southeast Asia Discussion Acknowledgments

Chapter 11 Modern Humans in the Philippines Colonization, Subsistence and New Insights into Behavioural Complexity

Introduction Early Human Colonization of the Philippines The Paleoenvironmental Setting of the Callao Hominin Microwear Analysis and Modern Human Behaviour Discussion Acknowledgments

Chapter 12 Views from Across the Ocean A Demographic, Social and Symbolic Framework for the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour

Introduction Demographic and Ecological Changes A Social and Symbolic Framework

Bonding and Open Social Networks Bounding and Closed Social Networks

Beyond Sahul: Views from Across the Ocean

Europe Africa

Conclusion

Chapter 13 Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia and Sahul Adaptive and Creative Societies with Simple Lithic Industries

Introduction Historical Views of Tool Use by the First Colonisers of Sahul and Island Southeast Asia Sahul The Southeast Asian Islands Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgments

Chapter 14 Tasmanian Archaeology and Reflections on Modern Human Behaviour

Introduction Tasmanian Palaeoenvironment Human Skeletal Evidence Chronology Technology Subsistence and Land Use Stencil Art Summary The Neanderthal Case Conclusion

Chapter 15 Clothing and Modern Human Behaviour The Challenge from Tasmania

Introduction

The Importance of Australia The Importance of Tasmania Clothing and Modernity

Thermal Physiology and Clothing

Simple and Complex Clothing The Invisible Innovation

Clothing and Behavioural Modernity Modernity in Pleistocene Australia Modernity in Tasmania

Resource Specialization Standardized Lithics Bone Tools

The Tasmanian Challenge

The Holocene Reversal Tasmania and Europe

Adaptive Modernity

An Afrocentric Perspective A Eurocentric Perspective

Tasmania and the End of Modernity Summary and Conclusions Acknowledgments

Chapter 16 Patterns of Modernity Taphonomy, Sampling and the Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Sahul

Introduction Previous Interpretations of Sahul The Impact of Taphonomy and Sampling on Sahul’s Record of Pleistocene Complex Cultural Behaviour Pleistocene Sahul as Reminiscent of Middle Palaeolithic Eurasia? Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgments

Chapter 17 Late Pleistocene Colonisation and Adaptation in New Guinea Implications for Modelling Modern Human Behaviour

Introduction Colonisation of Sahul: Entry from the West Timing the Initial Occupation of New Guinea Speed of Colonisation Nature of Settlement and Subsistence

Coastal Adaptations Interior Adaptations

Developments after 30,000 Years Ago Summary Acknowledgments

Chapter 18 Modern Humans Spread from Aden to the Antipodes With Passengers and When?

Introduction Regional Setting Materials and Methods Used in Reviews of Genetic Phylogeography

Phylogeography Linearity of Dating

Review of Out-of-Africa Models

How Many Exits of AMH Ancestors from Africa? The Genetic Evidence

Multiregional View versus Recent Replacement

Limited Archaic Interbreeding outside Africa Interbreeding with Neanderthals Interbreeding with Denisovans in Oceania Interbreeding with Denisovans in China?

Single versus Multiple Recent Exit Models for AMH

Which Route?

Southern Rather than Northern Exit: Genetic Evidence Climatic Considerations and Archaeology of the Exit Route

A Last Interglacial Exit into Southwest Asia? Fossil Evidence in East Asia for an Exit during MIS 5e Summary of Genetic Arguments against a Genetically Successful Exit during MIS 5e

Dating Migrations

Possible Dates of the Definitive Exit Delayed Migration to the Near East and Europe Dating the arrival of AMH in India and East Asia

India and Toba Indian Genetics and Toba Fossils and Genes in East and Southeast Asia

Dating Pleistocene Arrivals of Humans in Sahul and Near Oceania

Archaeology, Radiocarbon and Luminescence Dating Genetics

Conclusions

Chapter 19 It’s the Thought that Counts Unpacking the Package of Behaviour of the First People of Australia and Its Adjacent Islands

Introduction Historical Questions Theoretical Questions Fundamental Questions

Physical Anthropology Stone Tool Studies

What Is to Be Explained?

Language Material Culture Social Organisation and Ritual Subsistence

What Sorts of Explanation Are Possible?

Population Ups and Downs Demography and Modern Human Behaviour

The Importance of Australia for Understanding Human Evolution Acknowledgments

Chapter 20 Essential Questions Modern Humans and the Capacity for Modernity

Introduction Historical Legacies Human Revolutions: Open and Disguised Modern Humans and Adaptationist Explanations Conclusion: Absolute or Relative Capacity

References Index

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →