Mobility and ancient society in Asia and the Americas /
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene (...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland ; New York :
Springer,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Michael David Frachetti and Robert N. Spengler III
- 2. Nomadic mobility, migration, and environmental pressure in Eurasian prehistory / Michael David Frachetti
- 3. Early human expansion into Kazakhstan and subsequent Paleolithic migrations / Zh. K. Taimagambetov
- 4. Tracing human movements from Siberia to the Americas : insights from genetic studies / Theodore G. Schurr
- 5. Stemmed points, the coastal migration theory, and the peopling of the Americas / Jon M. Erlandson and Todd J. Braje
- 6. The initial colonization of North America : sea level change, shoreline movement, and great migrations / David G. Anderson and Thaddeus G. Bissett
- 7. Early Asiatic migration to the Americas : a view from South America / Gustavo Politis, Luciano Prates, and S. Ivan Perez
- 8. Cranial morphology of early South Americans : implications for understanding human dispersion into the New World / Mark Hubbe, Walter Neves, and Katerina Harvati
- 9. How America was colonized : linguistic evidence / Johanna Nichols
- 10. Kinship, demography, and Paleoindian modes of colonization : some western Canadian perspectives / John W. (Jack) Ives
- 11. The problem of the settlement of the Americas : old and new objectives and approaches / Galina Ershova
- 12. Late Pleistocene colonization of North America from northeast Asia : new insights from large-scale paleogeographic reconstructions / E. James Dixon
- 13. The third wave : the results of the First International Meeting on Great Migrations and the Bronze Age expansion out of southern Arabia / Olzhas Suleimenov.