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Title:

THE FIRST BOAT PEOPLE

By:

S. G. Webb

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521856566

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9780521856560

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 2006

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 47

Pages:

338

Description:

Challenging current theories of how modern humans emerged, this book explores how people travelled from Africa to Australia in the Pleistocene.

Synopsis:

The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at that time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians. This is a stimulating account for students and researchers in biological anthropology, human evolution and archaeology.

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62 b/w illus. 35 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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