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9789048190942
Series Statement:
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology
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This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. The papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeol
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Christopher J. Norton was born in Korea to Korean parents.... At about the age of one he was orphaned in Seoul (Korea) and after living in an orphanage for six months, he was then adopted by an American family. Growing up in a Caucasian-American household.... He traveled to Korea during his undergraduate days on an exchange program. -- "My original objective in going to Korea was to reconstruct my own past, but I have since expanded these interests to eastern Asian prehistory, as one of paleoanthropology's goals is to reconstruct the past without all the pieces." (Christopher J. Bae = C. J. Norton) -- Quelle: https://anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/christopher-bae/#edu
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Chapter 1: Asian Paleoanthropology: An Introduction; Chapter 2: The Colonization of "Savannahstan": Issues of Timing(s) and Patterns of Dispersal Across Asia in the Late Pliocene a; Chapter 3: On the Road to China: The Environmental Landscape of the Early Pleistocene in Western Eurasia and Its Implication; Chapter 4: Africa and Asia: Comparisons of the Earliest Archaeological Evidence; Chapter 5: Inter-continental Variation in Acheulean Bifaces; Chapter 6: Cranial Shape in Asian Homo erectus: Geographic, Anagenetic, and Size-Related Variation
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Chapter 7: Rethinking the Palearctic-Oriental Biogeographic Boundary in Quaternary ChinaChapter 8: The History of Hominin Occupation of Central Asia in Review; Chapter 9: Core-and-Flake Assemblages of Central and Peninsular India; Chapter 10: South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India; Chapter 11: Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids; Chapter 12: Central-East China - A Plio-Pleistocene Dispersal Corridor: The Current State of Evidence for Hominin Occupations
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Chapter 13: The Earliest Hominin Occupations in the Nihewan Basin of Northern China: Recent Progress in Field InvestigationsChapter 14: Peopling in the Korean Peninsula; Chapter 15: When Were the Earliest Hominin Migrations to the Japanese Islands?;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789048190935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Asian paleoanthropology Dordrecht : Springer, 2010 ISBN 9789048190935
Language:
English
Keywords:
Asien
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Paläanthropologie
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