List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes ............................. xi
Preface ....................................................... xix
1. Asia and Its Place in Paleoanthropology ..................... 1
2. The African Background to the Colonisation of Asia .......... 9
3. The Climatic and Environmental Background to Hominin
Settlement in Asia before 1 MA ............................. 35
4. The Earliest Inhabitants of Southwest Asia ................. 82
5. The Earliest Inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia and
China ..................................................... 128
6. "Out of Africa 1" Reconsidered and the Earliest
Colonisation of Asia ...................................... 186
7. The Climatic and Environmental Background to Hominin
Settlement in Asia between ca. 1 ma and the Last
Interglacial .............................................. 203
8. The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record for
Southwest and Central Asia ................................ 259
9. The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of
the Indian Subcontinent ................................... 336
10. The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of China
and Southeast Asia ........................................ 396
11. Human Evolution in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene ..... 438
12. Concluding Remarks ........................................ 473
Appendix 1: The Sizes of Countries and Regions in Asia,
with Comparative Examples ......................... 479
Appendix 2: Geographical Coordinates of Principal Early
Palaeolithic Sites in Asia ........................ 481
Appendix 3: Geographical Coordinates of Geological Sections
and Cores ......................................... 485
Appendix 4: English Names of Various Mammals Recorded in
Asia .............................................. 487
Bibliography .................................................. 489
Index ......................................................... 541
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