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The first boat people

Title
  1. The first boat people / S.G. Webb.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Author
  1. Webb, S. G. (Steve G.), 1956-

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Description
  1. xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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 of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at the time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna, using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47.
Subject
  1. Navigation, Prehistoric > Australia
  2. Navigation, Prehistoric > Africa
  3. Prehistoric peoples > Australia
  4. Prehistoric peoples > Australia > Northern Territory
  5. Prehistoric peoples > Africa
  6. Aboriginal Australians > Origin
  7. Antiquities
  8. Navigation, Prehistoric
  9. Prehistoric peoples
  10. Einwanderung
  11. Pleistozän
  12. Société préhistorique > Australie
  13. Société préhistorique > Afrique
  14. Navigation préhistorique > Australie
  15. Navigation préhistorique > Afrique
  16. Australia > Antiquities
  17. Africa > Antiquities
  18. Northern Territory
  19. Africa
  20. Australia
  21. Australien
  22. Aborigines
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index.