Notes on Contributors viii
1 Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity 1
Peter Bellwood
Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene 7
2 The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia 9
Christine Hertler, Angela Bruch, and Michael Märker
3 Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa - how many times? 18
Colin Groves
4 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology 26
Mark Stoneking and Katerina Harvati
5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology 38
Peter Hiscock
6 Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos 49
François Sémah and Anne-Marie Sémah
7 The human colonization of Australia 55
Peter Hiscock
8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology 61
David J. Meltzer
9 The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics 70
Simon G. Southerton
Part II: Holocene migrations 77
10 Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion 79
Peter Bellwood
11 Human migrations and the histories of major language families 87
Peter Bellwood
12 Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics 96
Christopher Ehret
13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology 107
Peter Robertshaw
14 Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics 115
Evelyne Heyer and Jorge Rocha
15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history 125
Václav Bla?ek
16 Levant and North Africa: archaeology 133
Gregory P. Gilbert
17 Ana tolia and the Balkans: archaeology 139
Mehmet Özdogan
18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history 146
Mark G. Thomas, Toomas Kivisild, Lounes Chikhi, and Joachim Burger
19 Europe and western Asia: Indo-European linguistic history 157
Paul Heggarty
20 Europe: Neolithic colonization 168
Ron Pinhasi
21 Northern Europe and Russia: Uralic linguistic history 178
Václav Bla?ek
22 Central Asia: genetics and archaeology 184
Ron Pinhasi and Evelyne Heyer
23 Northern and northeastern Asia: archaeology 191
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
24 Northeastern and central Asia: "Altaic" linguistic history 197
Alexander Vovin
25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history 204
Randy J. LaPolla
26 Eastern Asia: archaeology 209
Zhang Chi and Hung Hsiao-chun
27 Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology 217
Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham
28 Japan: archaeology 224
Mark J. Hudson
29 Korea: archaeology 230
Seonbok Yi
30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history 235
Franklin C. Southworth and David W. McAlpin
31 South Asia: archaeology 245
Dorian Q. Fuller
32 Trans-Indian Ocean migration 254
Atholl Anderson
33 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history 259
Paul Sidwell
34 Southeast Asian mainland: archaeology 269
C. F. W. Higham
35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history 276
Robert Blust
36 Southeast Asian islands: archaeology 284
Peter Bellwood
37 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: human genetics 293
Murray P. Cox
38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past 302
Bryant Allen
39 Oceania: Lapita migration 308
Matthew Spriggs
40 Micronesian archaeology 314
Mike T. Carson
41 Polynesia, East and South, including transpacifi c migration 320
Atholl Anderson
42 Australia: linguistic history 327
Patrick McConvell
43 North America: Na Dene/Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics 333
R. G. Matson and M. P. R. Magne
44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history 340
Michael Fortescue
45 North America: Paleoeskimo and Inuit archaeology 346
T. Max Friesen
46 Eastern North America: archaeology and linguistics 354
Dean R. Snow
47 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: linguistic history 362
Jane H. Hill
48 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: archaeology 369
Steven A. LeBlanc
49 Caribbean Islands: archaeology 376
William Keegan
50 Amazonia: linguistic history 384
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
51 Amazonia: archaeology 392
Michael Heckenberger
52 Andes: linguistic history 401
Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones
53 Andes: archaeology 410
David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty
Index 417
