Title The first boat people / S.G. Webb

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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MELB	569.90994 Web/Fbp		AVAILABLE

Description xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47 Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 47 Contents 1. Going to Sunda : lower Pleistocene transcontinental migration -- 2. Pleistocene population growth -- 3. From Sunda to Sahul : transequatorial migration in the upper Pleistocene -- 4. Upper Pleistocene migration patterns on Sahul -- 5. Palaeoenvironments, megafauna and the upper Pleistocene settlement of central Australia -- 6. Upper Pleistocene Australians : the Willandra people -- 7. Origins : a morphological puzzle -- 8. Migratory time frames and upper Pleistocene environmental sequences in Australia -- 9. An incomplete jigsaw puzzle Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577 ISBN 9780521856560 : 0521856566 hardback

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