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First boat people.

The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia, in the Pleistocene era. It traces movement 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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Webb, S. G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47.
Subjects:
Navigation, Prehistoric > Australia.
Navigation, Prehistoric > Africa.
Prehistoric peoples > Australia.
Prehistoric peoples > Australia > Northern Territory.
Prehistoric peoples > Africa.
Aboriginal Australians > Origin.
Australia > Antiquities.
Africa > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Navigation, Prehistoric.
Prehistoric peoples.
Northern Territory.
Africa.
Australia.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Going to Sunda : Lower Pleistocene transcontinental migration
  • 2. Pleistocene population growth
  • 3. From Sunda to Sahul : transequatorial migration in the Upper Pleistocene
  • 4. Upper Pleistocene migration patterns on Sahul
  • 5. Palaeoenvironments, megafauna and the Upper Pleistocene settlement of Central Australia
  • 6. Upper Pleistocene Australians : the Willandra people
  • 7. Origins : a morphological puzzle
  • 8. Migratory time frames and Upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia
  • 9. An incomplete jigsaw puzzle.

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