Overview
- First book on prehistory of Arabia
- Includes multidisciplinary subjects such as paleoenvironments, archaeology, genetics and linguistics
- Provides a more comprehensive picture about human adaptations and population changes
- Presents new theories and methodologies providing new interpretations about cultural history and evolution of populations in Arabia
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Quaternary Environments and Demographic Response
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Genetics and Migration
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Pleistocene Archaeology
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The Early Holocene
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This final published set expands significantly beyond that initial purpose to add significant context to what is admittedly still a largely Palaeolithic focus. … The quality of the papers contained within the volume is very high indeed. … This volume provides an excellent statement of our current state of knowledge of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene occupation of the Arabian Peninsula … also setting the scene for future research to address the new-found archaeological complexity of this region.” (Anthony Sinclair, Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies, April, 2010)
“This latest volume in Springer’s ‘Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology’ series is essentially a compilation of discrete research papers. Collectively, they provide a comprehensive, albeit repetitious, review of Arabian prehistory. … Summing Up: Recommended. Archaeology and anthropology collections serving graduate students and researchers/faculty.” (D. A. Brass, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), July, 2010)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael D. Petraglia was born in New York in 1960. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge. Over the past 25 years, he has conducted archaeological research in India, Arabia, Europe and North America. He is co-editor of the book, The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia (Springer).
Jeffrey Ian Rose was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1975. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted fieldwork in prehistoric archaeology throughout North America, Europe, and Arabia. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Oxford Brookes University and runs an ongoing archaeological research project in the Sultanate of Oman.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia
Book Subtitle: Paleoenvironments, Prehistory and Genetics
Editors: Michael D. Petraglia, Jeffrey I. Rose
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2719-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2718-4Published: 11 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3102-8Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2719-1Published: 27 November 2009
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 312
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Biochemistry, general, Archaeology, Anthropology, Paleontology