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First Migrants : Ancient Migration in Global Perspective.

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2013Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (328 pages)Innehållstyp:
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Intro -- 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 Diffusion -- Language 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 -- Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa -- First 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 Americas -- Crossing 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 Yeniseian -- The 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? -- Food Production and Population Expansion -- The Neolithic -- Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration -- Notes -- 7 The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex -- Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent -- Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent -- Anatolia and Southeastern Europe -- Neolithic Migration Beyond Greece and the Balkans -- The Steppes and Central Asia -- Iran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus -- Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex -- Perspectives from Indo-European.
The Possible Significance of the Turkic and Yeniseian Languages in Central Asia -- West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene -- Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History -- The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa -- The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia -- Notes -- 8 The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes -- Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia -- Migrations from the Yellow River Basin -- Migrations from the Yangzi Basin - Mainland Southeast Asia -- Early Rice and the Linguistic Record -- Genetics, Human Biology, and the East Asian Mainland during the Holocene -- Island Southeast Asia and Oceania -- The Colonization of Oceania -- The History of the Austronesian Language Family -- Biological Anthropology and the Austronesians -- The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory -- Notes -- 9 The African and American Food Production Complexes -- Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa -- West Africa and the Niger-Congo-Speaking Populations -- The African Food Production Complex in Perspective -- Holocene Migrations in the Americas -- The Central Andes -- Amazonia -- The Caribbean Islands -- Mesoamerica -- Northern Mesoamerica, the Southwestern United States, and the Uto-Aztecans -- The Eastern Woodlands -- The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory -- Notes -- 10 The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Sammanfattning: 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 world An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species Outlines how significant migrations have affected population diversity in every region of the world Clarifies the importance of the development of agriculture as a migratory imperative in later prehistory Fully referenced with detailed maps throughout.
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Intro -- 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 Diffusion -- Language 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 -- Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa -- First 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 Americas -- Crossing 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 Yeniseian -- The 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? -- Food Production and Population Expansion -- The Neolithic -- Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration -- Notes -- 7 The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex -- Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent -- Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent -- Anatolia and Southeastern Europe -- Neolithic Migration Beyond Greece and the Balkans -- The Steppes and Central Asia -- Iran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus -- Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex -- Perspectives from Indo-European.

The Possible Significance of the Turkic and Yeniseian Languages in Central Asia -- West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene -- Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History -- The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa -- The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia -- Notes -- 8 The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes -- Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia -- Migrations from the Yellow River Basin -- Migrations from the Yangzi Basin - Mainland Southeast Asia -- Early Rice and the Linguistic Record -- Genetics, Human Biology, and the East Asian Mainland during the Holocene -- Island Southeast Asia and Oceania -- The Colonization of Oceania -- The History of the Austronesian Language Family -- Biological Anthropology and the Austronesians -- The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory -- Notes -- 9 The African and American Food Production Complexes -- Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa -- West Africa and the Niger-Congo-Speaking Populations -- The African Food Production Complex in Perspective -- Holocene Migrations in the Americas -- The Central Andes -- Amazonia -- The Caribbean Islands -- Mesoamerica -- Northern Mesoamerica, the Southwestern United States, and the Uto-Aztecans -- The Eastern Woodlands -- The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory -- Notes -- 10 The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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 world An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species Outlines how significant migrations have affected population diversity in every region of the world Clarifies the importance of the development of agriculture as a migratory imperative in later prehistory Fully referenced with detailed maps throughout.

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