عنوان

The first boat people /

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0511600526

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1107316618

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1107317576

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1107318467

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1107322006

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1139810448

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1299399681

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9780511600524

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9780511839733

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9781107196292

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9781107315631

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9781107317574

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9781107318465

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9781139810449

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Erroneous ISBN

0521856566

Erroneous ISBN

9780521856560

Number

b749652

Title Proper

The first boat people /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

S.G. Webb.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps.

Series Title

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;

Volume Designation

47

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction; Prologue; 1. Going to Sunda: Lower Pleistocene transcontinental migration -- 2. Pleistocene population growth -- 3. From Sunda to Sahul: transequatorial migration in the Upper Pleistocene -- 4. Upper Pleistocene migration patterns on Sahul -- 5. Palaeoenvironments, megafauna and the Upper Pleistocene settlement of Central Australia -- 6. Upper Pleistocene Australians: the Willandran people -- 7. Origins: a morphological puzzle -- 8. Migratory time frames and Upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia -- 9. An incomplete jigsaw puzzle.

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Text of Note

The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at that time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians. This is a stimulating account for students and researchers in biological anthropology, human evolution and archaeology.

Title

First boat people.

International Standard Book Number

0521856566

Navigation, Prehistoric-- Africa.

Navigation, Prehistoric-- Australia.

Prehistoric peoples-- Africa.

Prehistoric peoples-- Australia.

Antiquities.

Einwanderung

NATURE-- Fossils.

Navigation préhistorique-- Afrique.

Navigation préhistorique-- Australie.

Navigation, Prehistoric.

Pleistozän

Prehistoric peoples.

Société préhistorique-- Afrique.

Société préhistorique-- Australie.

Africa, Antiquities.

Australia, Antiquities.

Aborigines.

Africa.

Australia.

Australien

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NAT-- 015000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Webb, Steve.

Date of Transaction

20201204093221.0

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Electronic name

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