Out of Africa I

1. Front Matter

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2. The African Background

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Early Pleistocene Mammals of Africa: Background to Dispersal

      • Meave Leakey, Lars Werdelin

      Pages 3-11

   3. Carnivoran Dispersal Out of Africa During the Early Pleistocene: Relevance for Hominins?

      • Margaret E. Lewis, Lars Werdelin

      Pages 13-26

   4. Saharan Corridors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Geography of ‘Out of Africa I’

      • Marta Mirazón Lahr

      Pages 27-46

   5. Stone Age Visiting Cards Revisited: A Strategic Perspective on the Lithic Technology of Early Hominin Dispersal

      • John J. Shea

      Pages 47-64

3. Eastern Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-66

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   2. Behavioral and Environmental Background to ‘Out-of-Africa I’ and the Arrival of Homo erectus in East Asia

      • Richard Potts, Robin Teague

      Pages 67-85

   3. New Archeological Evidence for the Earliest Hominin Presence in China

      • Ya-Mei Hou, Ling-Xia Zhao

      Pages 87-95

   4. Geological Evidence for the Earliest Appearance of Hominins in Indonesia

      • Yahdi Zaim

      Pages 97-110

   5. Divorcing Hominins from the Stegodon-Ailuropoda Fauna: New Views on the Antiquity of Hominins in Asia

      • Russell L. Ciochon

      Pages 111-126

4. South Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Early Pleistocene Mammalian Faunas of India and Evidence of Connections with Other Parts of the World

      • Rajeev Patnaik, Avinash C. Nanda

      Pages 129-143

   3. The Indian Subcontinent and ‘Out of Africa I’

      • Parth R. Chauhan

      Pages 145-164

   4. The Early Paleolithic of the Indian Subcontinent: Hominin Colonization, Dispersals and Occupation History

      • Michael D. Petraglia

      Pages 165-179

5. Europe and Western Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Early Pleistocene Faunal Connections Between Africa and Eurasia: An Ecological Perspective

      • Miriam Belmaker

      Pages 183-205

   3. Early Pleistocene Faunas of Eurasia and Hominin Dispersals

      • Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro

      Pages 207-224

   4. Fossil Skulls from Dmanisi: A Paleodeme Representing Earliest Homo in Eurasia

      • G. Philip Rightmire, David Lordkipanidze

      Pages 225-243

6. Summary, Synthesis and Future Directions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. Dating from about two million years ago, hominin fossils first appear in Eurasia. This volume addresses many of the issues surrounding this initial hominin intercontinental dispersal. Why did hominins first leave Africa in the early Pleistocene and not earlier? What do we know about the adaptations of the hominins that dispersed - their diet, locomotor abilities, cultural abilities? Was there a single dispersal event or several? Was the hominin dispersal part of a broader faunal expansion of African mammals northward? What route or routes did dispersing populations take?

• Human Evolution
• Life History
• Locomotion
• anthropology
• archaeology
• paleoanthropology

• Medical Center, Dept. Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

  John G. Fleagle

• , Department of Anthropology and Turkana B, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

  John J. Shea

• , Departments of Anthropolgy and Anatomica, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

  Frederick E. Grine

• , Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in An, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

  Andrea L. Baden

• , Department of Anthropology and Turkana B, Stony Brook University, New York, USA

  Richard E. Leakey

John Fleagle is Distinguished Professor of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. He has conducted paleontological field work in many parts of the world, including Argentina, Egypt, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. He is the author of the textbook Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1988, 1999, Elsevier), Co-Editor of the Human Evolution Sourcebook (1993, 2006, Prentice Hall) and the Editor of journal Evolutionary Anthropology.

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