Global Prehistory of Human Migration

Peter Bellwood is Emeritus Professor (Archaeology) at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of First Farmers (Blackwell, 2005), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2007), and First Migrants (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). His book First Farmers won a 2006 Book Award from the Society for American Archaeology. He has also written and edited many other books on Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory. His current research and writing are on prehistoric migrations around the world, especially of early food-producing populations, with a focus on Southeast Asia. He is currently involved in archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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• Notes on Contributors viii1 Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity 1Peter BellwoodPart I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene 72 The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia 9Christine Hertler, Angela Bruch, and Michael Märker3 Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa – how many times? 18Colin Groves4 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology 26Mark Stoneking and Katerina Harvati5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology 38Peter Hiscock6 Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos 49François Sémah and Anne-Marie Sémah7 The human colonization of Australia 55Peter Hiscock8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology 61David J. Meltzer9 The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics 70Simon G. SouthertonPart II: Holocene migrations 7710 Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion 79Peter Bellwood11 Human migrations and the histories of major language families 87Peter Bellwood12 Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics 96Christopher Ehret13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology 107Peter Robertshaw14 Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics 115Evelyne Heyer and Jorge Rocha15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history 125Václav Bla?ek16 Levant and North Africa: archaeology 133Gregory P. Gilbert17 Ana tolia and the Balkans: archaeology 139Mehmet Özdogan18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history 146Mark G. Thomas, Toomas Kivisild, Lounes Chikhi, and Joachim Burger 19 Europe and western Asia: Indo-European linguistic history 157Paul Heggarty20 Europe: Neolithic colonization 168Ron Pinhasi21 Northern Europe and Russia: Uralic linguistic history 178Václav Bla?ek22 Central Asia: genetics and archaeology 184Ron Pinhasi and Evelyne Heyer23 Northern and northeastern Asia: archaeology 191Yaroslav V. Kuzmin24 Northeastern and central Asia: “Altaic” linguistic history 197Alexander Vovin25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history 204Randy J. LaPolla26 Eastern Asia: archaeology 209Zhang Chi and Hung Hsiao-chun27 Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology 217Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham28 Japan: archaeology 224Mark J. Hudson29 Korea: archaeology 230Seonbok Yi30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history 235Franklin C. Southworth and David W. McAlpin31 South Asia: archaeology 245Dorian Q. Fuller32 Trans-Indian Ocean migration 254Atholl Anderson33 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history 259Paul Sidwell34 Southeast Asian mainland: archaeology 269C. F. W. Higham35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history 276Robert Blust36 Southeast Asian islands: archaeology 284Peter Bellwood37 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: human genetics 293Murray P. Cox38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past 302Bryant Allen39 Oceania: Lapita migration 308Matthew Spriggs40 Micronesian archaeology 314Mike T. Carson41 Polynesia, East and South, including transpacifi c migration 320Atholl Anderson42 Australia: linguistic history 327Patrick McConvell43 North America: Na Dene/Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics 333R. G. Matson and M. P. R. Magne44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history 340Michael Fortescue45 North America: Paleoeskimo and Inuit archaeology 346T. Max Friesen46 Eastern North America: archaeology and linguistics 354Dean R. Snow 47 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: linguistic history 362Jane H. Hill48 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: archaeology 369Steven A. LeBlanc49 Caribbean Islands: archaeology 376William Keegan50 Amazonia: linguistic history 384Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald51 Amazonia: archaeology 392Michael Heckenberger52 Andes: linguistic history 401Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones53 Andes: archaeology 410David Beresford-Jones and Paul HeggartyIndex 417