Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Asian Paleoanthropology: An Introduction....Pages 1-5
The Colonization of “Savannahstan”: Issues of Timing(s) and Patterns of Dispersal Across Asia in the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene....Pages 7-30
On the Road to China: The Environmental Landscape of the Early Pleistocene in Western Eurasia and Its Implication for the Dispersal of Homo ....Pages 31-40
Africa and Asia: Comparisons of the Earliest Archaeological Evidence....Pages 41-48
Inter-continental Variation in Acheulean Bifaces....Pages 49-55
Cranial Shape in Asian Homo erectus : Geographic, Anagenetic, and Size-Related Variation....Pages 57-79
Rethinking the Palearctic-Oriental Biogeographic Boundary in Quaternary China....Pages 81-100
The History of Hominin Occupation of Central Asia in Review....Pages 101-112
Core-and-Flake Assemblages of Central and Peninsular India....Pages 113-128
South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India....Pages 129-141
Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids....Pages 143-157
Central-East China – A Plio-Pleistocene Dispersal Corridor: The Current State of Evidence for Hominin Occupations....Pages 159-168
The Earliest Hominin Occupations in the Nihewan Basin of Northern China: Recent Progress in Field Investigations....Pages 169-180
Peopling in the Korean Peninsula....Pages 181-190
When Were the Earliest Hominin Migrations to the Japanese Islands?....Pages 191-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-214