Overview
- Editors:
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Christopher J. Norton
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, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
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David R. Braun
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, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
- Provides a comprehensive review of the Asian paleoenvironmental and hominin behavioural and morphological records
- Useful for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and senior scientists studying the Asian paleoanthropological record
- Focused areas covered are the nature of Early and Middle Pleistocene hominin dispersals into particular regions; the evidence for the earliest hominin occupations in certain regions; and hominin morphological and behavioral variation
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Christopher J. Norton, David R. Braun
Pages 1-5
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- David R. Braun, Christopher J. Norton, John W. K. Harris
Pages 41-48
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- Ceri Shipton, Michael D. Petraglia
Pages 49-55
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- Christopher J. Norton, Changzhu Jin, Yuan Wang, Yingqi Zhang
Pages 81-100
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- Yousuke Kaifu, Etty Indriati, Fachroel Aziz, Iwan Kurniawan, Hisao Baba
Pages 143-157
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- Christopher J. Norton, Xing Gao, Wu Liu, David R. Braun, Xiujie Wu
Pages 159-168
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- Chen Shen, Xing Gao, Qi Wei
Pages 169-180
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Back Matter
Pages 201-214
About this book
This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeological and hominin fossil records of particular regions.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Christopher J. Norton
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, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
David R. Braun
About the editors
Christopher Norton has spent the past eighteen years conducting paleoanthropological research in China, Korea, and Japan. Of those eighteen years, Norton has spent more than eight years actually living in those respective countries learning not only the paleoanthropology, but the cultures and languages as well. This has allowed Norton to develop a broader, regional scope for his research. This has facilitated his previous research and was the primary impetus for proposing this comprehensive synthesis of the current state of
research in Asian paleoanthropology. The co-editor, David Braun, works primarily in Africa. However, we both agreed that comparative research between Africa and Asia was critical to fully comprehending both regional records. This was the primary reason why we co-organized a symposium on Asian Paleoanthropology at the AAPA meeting in March 2007, which forms the foundation for this edited volume. Most of the presentations from that conference are chapters in this book.
