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Out of Africa I

The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia

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Editors:
  1. John G. Fleagle

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

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  2. John J. Shea

    1. , Department of Anthropology and Turkana B, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

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  3. Frederick E. Grine

    1. , Departments of Anthropolgy and Anatomica, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

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  4. Andrea L. Baden

    1. , Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in An, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

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  5. Richard E. Leakey

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

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  • Addresses the many facets of the first hominin range expansion from Africa into Eurasia
  • Discusses aspects as geography, climate, faunal composition and hominin culture that enabled or led to the initial dispersal of hominins into Eurasia
  • Contains individual articles by experts from all over the world in the fields of paleontology, archaeology and geology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  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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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Out of Africa I

  • Book Subtitle: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia

  • Editors: John G. Fleagle, John J. Shea, Frederick E. Grine, Andrea L. Baden, Richard E. Leakey

  • Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2

  • 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: 978-90-481-9035-5Published: 27 August 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3308-4Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9036-2Published: 20 August 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1877-9077

  • Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 294

  • Topics: Anthropology

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