First migrants : ancient migration in global perspective / Peter Bellwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellwood, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Migrations of nations.

Prehistoric peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the world An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species Outlines how significant migrations have affected population diversity in every region of the world Clarifies the importance of the development of agriculture as a migratory imperative in later prehistory Fully referenced with detailed maps throughout.

Contents:

Intro

First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

A Note on Dating Terminology

Acknowledgements

1 The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration

Migration in Prehistoric Times

Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations

Migrations in History and Ethnography

The Helvetii

Ancient China

Medieval Iceland

The Nuer of Sudan

The Iban of Sarawak

Relevance for Prehistoric Migration?

Notes

2 Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration

Changes in Time and Space - Genes, Languages, Cultures

Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration

Demic Diffusion

Language Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory

Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History

Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology

Dating the Spreads of Language Families

Cultures in Archaeology - Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations?

Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory

One End of the Spectrum - Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration

The Other End of the Spectrum - Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration

3 Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species

Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa

First Hominin Migration(s) - Out of Africa 1

Unfolding Species in Time and Space

Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea

Out of Africa 2?

Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens

The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology

The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000-45,000 Years Ago

Africa

The Levant and Southern Asia

Northern and Western Eurasia

The Fate of the Neanderthals

Explanations?

Notes.

4 Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands - Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The Americas

Crossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland

How Many Settlers?

The First Australo-Melanesians

The Archaeology of Island Colonization - Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia

Heading North and Offshore Again - Japan

The Americas

Getting to Beringia

Circumventing the Ice

The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization

5 Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World

Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia

After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait

Na-Dene and Yeniseian

The Apachean Migration

The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America

The Thule Migration and the Inuit

The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara

Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration

Holocene Australia - Pama-Nyungan Migration?

Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene

Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans?

6 The First Farmers and Their Offspring

Where and When Did Food Production Begin?

Why Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, but Not Others?

Why Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop?

Food Production and Population Expansion

The Neolithic

Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration

7 The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex

Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent

Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent

Anatolia and Southeastern Europe

Neolithic Migration Beyond Greece and the Balkans

The Steppes and Central Asia

Iran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus

Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex

Perspectives from Indo-European.

The Possible Significance of the Turkic and Yeniseian Languages in Central Asia

West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene

Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History

The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa

The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia

8 The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes

Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia

Migrations from the Yellow River Basin

Migrations from the Yangzi Basin - Mainland Southeast Asia

Early Rice and the Linguistic Record

Genetics, Human Biology, and the East Asian Mainland during the Holocene

Island Southeast Asia and Oceania

The Colonization of Oceania

The History of the Austronesian Language Family

Biological Anthropology and the Austronesians

The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory

9 The African and American Food Production Complexes

Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa

West Africa and the Niger-Congo-Speaking Populations

The African Food Production Complex in Perspective

Holocene Migrations in the Americas

The Central Andes

Amazonia

The Caribbean Islands

Mesoamerica

Northern Mesoamerica, the Southwestern United States, and the Uto-Aztecans

The Eastern Woodlands

The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory

10 The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-118-32580-X

OCLC:

868491518