Robin Dennell is Emeritus Research Professor at Exeter University, UK. In his early career, he was primarily interested in the Neolithic of Europe and Southwest Asia. During 1981–1999, his main research was on the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of Pakistan. In 2003, he was awarded a three-year British Academy Research Professorship to write The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia (2009), the first overview of the Asian Early Palaeolithic and Pleistocene. Since 2005, he has conducted research with Chinese colleagues into the Pleistocene and Palaeolithic of China. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

• Chapter 1 Invasion Biology and the Colonisation of Asia; Chapter 2 The African background: hominins to humans; Chapter 3 The climatic and environmental background to the human colonisation of Asia; Part 1 Prologue The southern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 4 Arabia to the Thar Desert; Chapter 5 The Oriental Realm of South Asia; Chapter 6 Sunda and Mainland Southeast Asia; Chapter 7 Wallacea and Sahul; Part 2 Prologue The northern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 8 The Levant and Iran; Chapter 9 Central Asia, southern Siberia and Mongolia; Chapter 10 China; Chapter 11 Humans on the edge of Asia: The Arctic, Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands; Chapter 12 How did we manage to colonise Asia?

Robin Dennell is Emeritus Research Professor at Exeter University, UK. In his early career, he was primarily interested in the Neolithic of Europe and Southwest Asia. During 1981–1999, his main research was on the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of Pakistan. In 2003, he was awarded a three-year British Academy Research Professorship to write The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia (2009), the first overview of the Asian Early Palaeolithic and Pleistocene. Since 2005, he has conducted research with Chinese colleagues into the Pleistocene and Palaeolithic of China. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

• Chapter 1 Invasion Biology and the Colonisation of Asia; Chapter 2 The African background: hominins to humans; Chapter 3 The climatic and environmental background to the human colonisation of Asia; Part 1 Prologue The southern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 4 Arabia to the Thar Desert; Chapter 5 The Oriental Realm of South Asia; Chapter 6 Sunda and Mainland Southeast Asia; Chapter 7 Wallacea and Sahul; Part 2 Prologue The northern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 8 The Levant and Iran; Chapter 9 Central Asia, southern Siberia and Mongolia; Chapter 10 China; Chapter 11 Humans on the edge of Asia: The Arctic, Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands; Chapter 12 How did we manage to colonise Asia?

Robin Dennell is Emeritus Research Professor at Exeter University, UK. In his early career, he was primarily interested in the Neolithic of Europe and Southwest Asia. During 1981–1999, his main research was on the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of Pakistan. In 2003, he was awarded a three-year British Academy Research Professorship to write The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia (2009), the first overview of the Asian Early Palaeolithic and Pleistocene. Since 2005, he has conducted research with Chinese colleagues into the Pleistocene and Palaeolithic of China. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

• Chapter 1 Invasion Biology and the Colonisation of Asia; Chapter 2 The African background: hominins to humans; Chapter 3 The climatic and environmental background to the human colonisation of Asia; Part 1 Prologue The southern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 4 Arabia to the Thar Desert; Chapter 5 The Oriental Realm of South Asia; Chapter 6 Sunda and Mainland Southeast Asia; Chapter 7 Wallacea and Sahul; Part 2 Prologue The northern dispersal across Asia; Chapter 8 The Levant and Iran; Chapter 9 Central Asia, southern Siberia and Mongolia; Chapter 10 China; Chapter 11 Humans on the edge of Asia: The Arctic, Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands; Chapter 12 How did we manage to colonise Asia?