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The First Boat People

Details

  • 62 b/w illus. 35 tables
  • Page extent: 336 pages
  • Size: 228 x 152 mm
  • Weight: 0.658 kg

Library of Congress

  • Dewey number: 569.90994
  • Dewey version: 22
  • LC Classification: GN875.A8 W43 2006
  • LC Subject headings:
    • Navigation, Prehistoric--Australia
    • Navigation, Prehistoric--Africa
    • Prehistoric peoples--Australia
    • Prehistoric peoples--Africa
    • Australia--Antiquities

Library of Congress Record

Hardback

 (ISBN-13: 9780521856560 | ISBN-10: 0521856566)




Contents


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List of plates page viii
List of figures x
List of maps xi
List of tables xii
Preface xv
 
Introduction 1
1 Going to Sunda: Lower Pleistocene transcontinental migration 5
2 Pleistocene population growth 40
3 From Sunda to Sahul: transequatorial migration in the Upper Pleistocene 73
4 Upper Pleistocene migration patterns on Sahul 112
5 Palaeoenvironments, megafauna and the Upper Pleistocene settlement of Central Australia 134
6 Upper Pleistocene Australians: the Willandra people 183
7 Origins: a morphological puzzle 233
8 Migratory time frames and Upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia 252
9 An incomplete jigsaw puzzle 271
Appendix 1 277
Appendix 2 279
Appendix 3 281
References 287
Index 304
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