Southern Asia, Australia, and the search for human origins /
xvi, 331 p. : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Content notes : 1. The past and present of human origins in Southern Asia and Australia / Robin Dennell and Martin Porr --
2. East Asia and human evolution : from cradle of mankind to cul-de-sac / Robin Dennell --
3. "Rattling the bones" : the changing contribution of the Australian archaeological record to ideas about human evolution / Sandra Bowdler --
4. Smoke and mirrors : the fossil record for Homo sapiens between Arabia and Australia / Robin Dennell --
5. An Arabian perspective on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa / Huw S. Groucutt and Michael D. Petraglia --
6. Assessing models for the dispersal of modern humans to South Asia / James Blinkhorn and Michael D. Petraglia --
7. East of Eden : founder effects and the archaeological signature of modern human dispersal / Christopher Clarkson --
8. Missing links, cultural modernity and the dead : anatomically modern humans in the Great Cave of Niah (Sarawak, Borneo) / Chris Hunt and Graeme Barker --
9. Faunal biogeography in island Southeast Asia : implications for early hominin and modern human dispersals / M.J. Morwood --
10. Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies in island Southeast Asia and their implications for understanding the development of modern human behaviour / Philip J. Piper and Ryan J. Rabett --
11. Modern humans in the Philippines : colonization, subsistence and new insights into behavioural complexity / Alfred F. Pawlik, Philip J. Piper and Armand Salvador B. Mijares --
12. Views from across the ocean : a demographic, social and symbolic framework for the appearance of modern human behaviour / Philip J. Habgood and Natalie R. Franklin --
13. Early modern humans in island Southeast Asia and Sahul : adaptive and creative societies with simple lithic industries / Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor --
14. Tasmanian archaeology and reflections on modern human behaviour / Richard Cosgrove, Anne Pike-Tay and Wil Roebroeks --
15. Clothing and modern human behaviour : the challenge from Tasmania / Ian Gilligan --
16. Patterns of modernity : taphonomy, sampling and the Pleistocene archaeological record of Sahul / Michelle C. Langley --
17. Late Pleistocene colonisation and adaptation in New Guinea : implications for modelling modern human behaviour / Glenn R. Summerhayes and Anne Ford --
18. Modern humans spread from Aden to the Antipodes : with passengers and when? / Stephen Oppenheimer --
19. It's the thought that counts : unpacking the package of behaviour of the first people of Australia and its adjacent islands Iain Davidson --
20. Essential questions : modern humans and the capacity for modernity / Martin Porr. Human evolution - Australia. Human beings - Origin. - South Asia Human beings - Origin. - Australia SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. Porr, Martin.,
