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The first boat people
- Title
- The first boat people / S.G. Webb.
- Author
- Webb, S. G. (Steve G.), 1956-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia, in the Pleistocene era. 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 the 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.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47.
- Subject
- Navigation, Prehistoric > Australia
- Navigation, Prehistoric > Africa
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia > Northern Territory
- Prehistoric peoples > Africa
- Aboriginal Australians > Origin
- Antiquities
- Navigation, Prehistoric
- Prehistoric peoples
- Einwanderung
- Pleistozän
- Société préhistorique > Australie
- Société préhistorique > Afrique
- Navigation préhistorique > Australie
- Navigation préhistorique > Afrique
- Australia > Antiquities
- Africa > Antiquities
- Northern Territory
- Africa
- Australia
- Australien
- Aborigines
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Willandra people -- 7. Origins : a morphological puzzle -- 8. Migratory time frames and Upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia -- 9. An incomplete jigsaw puzzle.
- ISBN
- 0521856566
- 9780521856560
- LCCN
- 2006299126
- 9780521856560
- OCLC
- ocm62891592
- 62891592
- SCSB-1430501
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library