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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 | |