The global prehistory of human migration

Notes on Contributors viii     1 Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity 1  Peter Bellwood     Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene 7     2 The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia 9  Christine Hertler, Angela Bruch, and Michael Marker     3 Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa     how many times? 18  Colin Groves     4 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology 26  Mark Stoneking and Katerina Harvati     5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology 38  Peter Hiscock     6 Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos 49  Francois Semah and Anne-Marie Semah     7 The human colonization of Australia 55  Peter Hiscock     8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology 61  David J. Meltzer     9 The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics 70  Simon G. Southerton     Part II: Holocene migrations 77     10 Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion 79  Peter Bellwood     11 Human migrations and the histories of major language families 87  Peter Bellwood     12 Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics 96  Christopher Ehret     13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology 107  Peter Robertshaw     14 Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics 115  Evelyne Heyer and Jorge Rocha     15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history 125  Vaclav Bla?ek     16 Levant and North Africa: archaeology 133  Gregory P. Gilbert     17 Ana tolia and the Balkans: archaeology 139  Mehmet Ozdogan     18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history 146  Mark G. Thomas, Toomas Kivisild, Lounes Chikhi, and Joachim Burger    19 Europe and western Asia: Indo-European linguistic history 157  Paul Heggarty     20 Europe: Neolithic colonization 168  Ron Pinhasi     21 Northern Europe and Russia: Uralic linguistic history 178  Vaclav Bla?ek     22 Central Asia: genetics and archaeology 184  Ron Pinhasi and Evelyne Heyer     23 Northern and northeastern Asia: archaeology 191  Yaroslav V. Kuzmin     24 Northeastern and central Asia:    Altaic    linguistic history 197  Alexander Vovin     25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history 204  Randy J. LaPolla     26 Eastern Asia: archaeology 209  Zhang Chi and Hung Hsiao-chun     27 Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology 217  Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham     28 Japan: archaeology 224  Mark J. Hudson     29 Korea: archaeology 230  Seonbok Yi     30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history 235  Franklin C. Southworth and David W. McAlpin     31 South Asia: archaeology 245  Dorian Q. Fuller     32 Trans-Indian Ocean migration 254  Atholl Anderson     33 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history 259  Paul Sidwell     34 Southeast Asian mainland: archaeology 269  C. F. W. Higham     35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history 276  Robert Blust     36 Southeast Asian islands: archaeology 284  Peter Bellwood     37 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: human genetics 293  Murray P. Cox     38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past 302  Bryant Allen     39 Oceania: Lapita migration 308  Matthew Spriggs     40 Micronesian archaeology 314  Mike T. Carson     41 Polynesia, East and South, including transpacifi c migration 320  Atholl Anderson     42 Australia: linguistic history 327  Patrick McConvell     43 North America: Na Dene/Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics 333  R. G. Matson and M. P. R. Magne     44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history 340  Michael Fortescue     45 North America: Paleoeskimo and Inuit archaeology 346  T. Max Friesen     46 Eastern North America: archaeology and linguistics 354  Dean R. Snow    47 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: linguistic history 362  Jane H. Hill     48 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: archaeology 369  Steven A. LeBlanc     49 Caribbean Islands: archaeology 376  William Keegan     50 Amazonia: linguistic history 384  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald     51 Amazonia: archaeology 392  Michael Heckenberger     52 Andes: linguistic history 401  Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones     53 Andes: archaeology 410  David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty     Index 417