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100	1		_aDennell, Robin, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFrom Arabia to the Pacific: How our Species Colonised Asia / _cRobin Dennell.
246	3	0	_aHow our Species Colonised Asia
260			_aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2020.
300			_axviii, 365 pages, 24 cm
500			_aSegment 62201/7 GBP 34.99
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aChapter 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?
520			_a"Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and explains why we were so successful as a colonising species. The colonisation of Asia by our species was one of the most momentous events in human evolution. Starting around or before 100,000 years ago, humans began to disperse out of Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, and then across southern Asia through India, southeast Asia, and south China. They learnt to build boats and sail to the islands of southeast Asia, from which they reached Australia by 50,000 years ago. Around that time, humans also dispersed from the Levant through Iran, Central Asia, southern Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau, North China and the Japanese Islands, and they also colonised Siberia as far north as the Arctic Ocean. By 30,000 years ago, humans had colonised the whole of Asia from Arabia to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean as well as the European Peninsula. In doing so, we replaced all other types of humans such as Neanderthals and ended five million years of human diversity. Using interdisciplinary source material, From Arabia to the Pacific charts this process and draws conclusions as to the factors which made it possible. It will invaluable to scholars of prehistory, archaeologists and anthropologists interested in how the human species moved out of Africa and spread throughout Asia"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPrehistoric peoples _zAsia.
650		0	_aHuman settlements _zAsia.
650		0	_aHuman beings _xMigrations.
650		0	_aAntiquities, Prehistoric _zAsia.
651		0	_aAsia _xAntiquities.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDennell, Robin, _tFrom Arabia to the Pacific _b1. _dNew York : Routledge, 2020. _z9781003038788 _w(DLC) 2019059011
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