The First Boat People Hardback: 47 (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 47) - Hardcover

Webb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521856566 ISBN 13: 9780521856560

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Challenging current theories of how modern humans emerged, this book argues for an early entry of humans into Australia. It explores how, why and when people migrated across the world in the Pleistocene, and what happened to the megafauna of Australia when they got there.

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Review of the hardback: 'Steve Webb is an excellent expert of the Australian Biological Anthropology. The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia. It traces movements 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. A most interesting book which describes all facets of the topic.' Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Biografía del autor:

STEVE WEBB is Professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, in Queensland, Australia. He has previously carried out a pioneering palaeopathological study of Aboriginal health patterns prior to European colonisation, and has previously published Paleopathology of Aboriginal Australians (1995; ISBN 0521 460441). His research now concentrates on Australian regional human evolution, reasons for the extinction of Australia's megafauna, Upper Pleistocene migration and the earliest human settlement of the continent. His particular focus is on palaeoenvironmental change accompanying the last two glaciations in Central Australia to understand more fully megafaunal extinction in the region, and the timing of the first human entry into Australia.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521856566
• ISBN 13: 9780521856560
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336