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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Note on Dating Terminology | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration | |
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| Migration in Prehistoric Times | |
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| Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations | |
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| Migrations in History and Ethnography | |
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| The Helvetii | |
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| Ancient China | |
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| Medieval Iceland | |
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| The Nuer of Sudan | |
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| The Iban of Sarawak | |
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| Relevance for Prehistoric Migration? | |
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| Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration | |
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| Changes in Time and Space - Genes, Languages, Cultures | |
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| Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration | |
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| Demic Diffusion | |
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| Language Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory | |
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| Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History | |
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| Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology | |
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| Dating the Spreads of Language Families | |
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| Cultures in Archaeology - Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations? | |
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| Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory | |
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| One End of the Spectrum - Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration | |
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| The Other End of the Spectrum - Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration | |
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| Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species | |
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| Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa | |
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| First Hormnin Migration(s) - Out of Africa 1 | |
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| Unfolding Species in Time and Space | |
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| Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea | |
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| Out of Africa 2? | |
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| Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens | |
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| The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology | |
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| The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000-45,000 Years Ago | |
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| Africa | |
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| The Levant and Southern Asia | |
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| Northern and Western Eurasia | |
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| The Fate of the Neanderthals | |
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| Explanations? | |
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| Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands - Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The Americas | |
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| Crossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland | |
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| How Many Settlers? | |
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| The First Australo-Melanesians | |
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| The Archaeology of Island Colonization-Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia | |
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| Heading North and Offshore Again - Japan | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Getting to Beringia | |
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| Circumventing the Ice | |
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| The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization | |
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| Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World | |
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| Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia | |
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| After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait | |
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| Na-Dene and Yeniseian | |
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| The Apachean Migration | |
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| The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America | |
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| The Thule Migration and the Inuit | |
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| The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara | |
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| Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration | |
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| Holocene Australia - Pama-Nyungan Migration? | |
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| Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene | |
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| Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans? | |
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| The First Farmers and Their Offspring | |
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| Where and When Did Food Production Begin? | |
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| Why Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, but Not Others? | |
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| Why Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop? | |
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| Food Production and Population Expansion | |
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| The Neolithic | |
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| Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration | |
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| The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex | |
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| Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent | |
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| Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent | |
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| Anatolia and Southeastern Europe | |
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| Neolithic Migration Beyond Greece and the Balkans | |
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| The Steppes and Central Asia | |
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| Iran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus | |
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| Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex | |
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| Perspectives from Indo-European | |
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| The Possible Significance of the Turkic and Yeniseian Languages in Central Asia | |
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| West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene | |
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| Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History | |
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| The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa | |
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| The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia | |
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| The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes | |
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| Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia | |
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| Migrations from the Yellow River Basin | |
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| Migrations from the Yangzi Basin - Mainland Southeast Asia | |
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| Early Rice and the Linguistic Record | |
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| Genetics, Human Biology, and the East Asian Mainland during the Holocene | |
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| Island Southeast Asia and Oceania | |
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| The Colonization of Oceania | |
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| The History of the Austronesian Language Family | |
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| Biological Anthropology and the Austronesians | |
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| The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory | |
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| The African and American Food Production Complexes | |
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| Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| West Africa and the Niger-Congo-Speaking Populations | |
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| The African Food Production Complex in Perspective | |
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| Holocene Migrations in the Americas | |
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| The Central Andes | |
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| Amazonia | |
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| The Caribbean Islands | |
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| Mesoamerica | |
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| Northern Mesoamerica, the Southwestern United States, and the Uto-Aztecans | |
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| The Eastern Woodlands | |
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| The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory | |
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| The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |