Under the canopy : the archaeology of tropical rain forests / edited by Julio Mercader.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mercader, Julio, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Rain forests.

Prehistoric peoples.

Hunting and gathering societies--Rain forests.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Rain forests.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Rain forests--Antiquities.

Rain forests.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

vii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: The paleolithic settlement of rain forests / Julio Mercader

Pt. 1. African pioneers. The archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene / Joanna Casey ; The middle stone age occupation of Atlantic central Africa: new evidence from equatorial Guinea and Cameroon / Julio Mercader and Raquel Martí ; Foragers of the Congo: the early settlement of the Ituri forest / Julio Mercader

Pt. 2. Australasian settlers. Hunter-gatherer occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age / F. David Bulbeck ; More than a million years of human occupation in insular southeast Asia: the early archaeology of eastern and central Java / François Sémah, Anne-Marie Sémah, and Truman Simanjuntak ; An archaeological assessment of rain forest occupation in northeast Queensland, Australia / Brit Asmussen

Pt. 3. The last frontier: newcomers in a new world. Late Glacial and early Holocene occupation of Central American tropical forests / Anthony J. Ranere and Richard G. Cooke ; Holocene climate and human occupation in the Orinoco / William P. Barse ; Archaeological hunter-gatherers in tropical forests: a view from Colombia / Santiago Mora and Cristóbal Gnecco ; Hunter-gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition / Betty J. Meggers and Eurico Th. Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081353142X

OCLC:

49276481