Table of Contents:
  • General background: modern human behavior in the Paleolithic world
  • Some key issues in the emergence and diversity of 'modern' human behavior / Paul Mellars
  • Early modern human dispersal in central and eastern Europe / Jiří Svoboda
  • Human migrations and adaptations in Asia inferred from genome diversity / Ryosuke Kimura
  • Migration and the origins of Homo sapiens / Peter Bellwood
  • South Asia
  • Modern human emergence in South Asia: a review of the fossil and genetic evidence / Sheela Athreya
  • Antiquity of modern humans and behavioral modernity in the Indian subcontinent: implications of the Jwalapuram evidence / Ravi Korisettar
  • Genes, stone tools, and modern humans, dispersal in the center of the Old World / Parth R. Chauhan, Shantanu Ozarkar, and Shaunak Kulkarni
  • Southeast Asia
  • Hoabinhians: a key population with which to debate the peopling of Southeast Asia / Hirofumi Matsumura, Marc F. Oxenham, and Nguyen Lan Cuong
  • First archaeological evidence of symbolic activities from the Pleistocene of Vietnam / Nguyen Viet
  • Reconstructing late Pleistocene climates, landscapes, and human activities in northern Borneo from excavations in the Niah Caves / Tim Reynolds and Graeme Barker
  • Tracking evidence for modern human behavior in Paleolithic Indonesia / Truman Simanjuntak, François Sémah, and Anne-Marie Sémah
  • Human emergence and adaptation to an island environment in the Philippine Paleolithic / Armand S. Mijares
  • Detecting traits of modern behavior through microwear analysis: a case study from the Philippine terminal Pleistocene / Alfred F. Pawlik
  • Wallacea and Australia
  • Maritime migration and lithic assemblage on Talaud islands in northern Wallacea during the late Pleistocene / Rintaro Ono, Naoki Nakajima, Hiroe Nishizawa, Shizuo Oda, and Santoso Soegondho
  • Crossing the Wallace line: the maritime skills of the earliest colonists in the Wallacean archipelago / Sue O'Connor
  • Cultural diversification and the global dispersion of Homo sapiens: lessons from Australia / Peter Hiscock
  • East Asia mainland and Taiwan
  • Chang-pin culture of Paleolithic Taiwan and its related problems / Chao-mei Lien
  • New evidence of modern human behavior in Paleolithic central China / Youping Wang
  • Handaxes in the Imjin River basin, Korea: implications for late Pleistocene hominin evolution in East Asia / Seonbok Yi
  • The characteristics of upper Paleolithic industries in Korea: innovation, continuity, and interaction / Gikil Lee
  • East Asia Japanese archipelago
  • The appearance and characteristics of the early upper Paleolithic in the Japanese archipelago / Masami Izuho
  • Paleovegetation during MIS 3 in the east Asia / Hikaru Takahara and Ryoma Hayashi
  • Further study on the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the Japanese archipelago / Akira Iwase, Keiichi Takahashi, and Masami Izuho
  • Pleistocene seafaring and colonization of the Ryuku Islands, southwestern Japan / Yousuke Kaifu, Masaki Fujita, Minoru Yoneda, and Shinji Yamasaki
  • Maritime transport of obsidian in Japan during the upper Paleolithic / Nobuyuki Ikeya
  • Appearance of Hakuhen-Sentoki (HS points) and second modern human migration into Kyushu, Japan / Kazuki Morisaki
  • Trap-pit hunting in late Pleistocene Japan / Hiroyuki Sato
  • Further analyses of Hokkaido Jōmon mitochondrial DNA / Noboru Adachi, Ken-ichi Shinoda, and Masami Izuho
  • On the processes of diversification in microblade technocomplexes in the late glacial Hokkaido / Yuichi Nakazawa and Satoru Yamada
  • Siberia
  • The overland dispersal of modern humans to eastern Asia / Ted Goebel
  • The Paleolithic peopling of Mongolia: an updated assessment / Jacques Jaubert
  • Middle and upper Paleolithic interactions and the emergence of 'modern behavior' in southern Siberia and Mongolia / Evgeny P. Rybin
  • The emergence of modern behavior in the Transbaikal, Russia: timing and technology / Ian Buvit
  • Modern human response to the last glacial maximum in Siberia / Kelly E. Graf
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Modern human dispersal and behavior in Paleolithic Asia: summary and discussion / Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, and Ted Goebel.