Asian paleoanthropology: from Africa to China and beyond / ed. by C.J.Norton, D.R.Braun. - Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2010. - xi, 214 p.: ill. (some col.), maps. - (Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series). - Incl. bibl. ref. - Site ind.: p.201-213.ISBN 978-90-481-9093-5  Место хранения:   088 | Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

1. Asian Paleoanthropology: An Introduction .................... 1 Christopher J. Norton and David R. Braun 2. The Colonization of "Savannahstan": Issues of Timing(s) and Patterns of Dispersal Across Asia in the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene .............................. 7 Robin William Dennell 3. On the Road to China: The Environmental Landscape of the Early Pleistocene in Western Eurasia and Its Implication for the Dispersal of Homo .................................. 31 Miriam Belmaker 4. Africa and Asia: Comparisons of the Earliest Archaeological Evidence .................................... 41 David R. Braun, Christopher J. Norton, and John W.K. Harris 5. Inter-continental Variation in Acheulean Bifaces ........... 49 Ceri Shipton and Michael D. Petraglia 6. Cranial Shape in Asian Homo erectus: Geographic, Anagenetic, and Size-Related Variation ..................... 57 Karen L. Baab 7. Rethinking the Palearctic-Oriental Biogeographic Boundary in Quaternary China ............................... 81 Christopher J. Norton, Changzhu Jin, Yuan Wang, and Yingqi Zhang 8. The History of Hominin Occupation of Central Asia in Review .................................................... 101 Michelle M. Glantz 9. Core-and-Flake Assemblages of Central and Peninsular India ..................................................... 113 Parth R. Chauhan 10. South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India .... 129 Sheela Athreya 11. Cranial Morphology and Variation of the Earliest Indonesian Hominids ....................................... 143 Yousuke Kaifu, Etty Indriati, Fachroel Aziz, Iwan Kurniawan, and Hisao Baba 12. Central-East China - A Plio-Pleistocene Dispersal Corridor: The Current State of Evidence for Hominin Occupations ............................................... 159 Christopher J. Norton, Xing Gao, Wu Liu, David R. Braun, and Xiujie Wu 13. The Earliest Hominin Occupations in the Nihewan Basin of Northern China: Recent Progress in Field Investigations ... 169 Chen Shen, Xing Gao, and Qi Wei 14. Peopling in the Korean Peninsula .......................... 181 Kidong Bae 15. When Were the Earliest Hominin Migrations to the Japanese Islands? ......................................... 191 Kazuto Matsufuji Site Index .................................................... 201 Subject Index ................................................. 205