Bellwood Peter. First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 308 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-8909-5.The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways.
- The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the world.
- An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years.
- Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species.
- Outlines how significant migrations have affected population diversity in every region of the world.
- Clarifies the importance of the development of agriculture as a migratory imperative in later prehistory.
- Fully referenced with detailed maps throughout.The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration.
Migration in Prehistoric Times.
Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations.
Migrations in History and Ethnography.
Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration.
Changes in Time and Space – Genes, Languages, Cultures.
Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration.
Language Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory.
Cultures in Archaeology – Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations?
Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory.
Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species.
Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa.
First Hominin Migration(s) – Out of Africa 1.
Out of Africa 2?
Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens.
The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000–45,000 Years Ago.
Explanations?
Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands – Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The Americas.
Crossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland.
The First Australo-Melanesians.
Heading North and Offshore Again – Japan.
The Americas.
Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World.
Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia.
After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait.
The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America.
The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara.
Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration.
Holocene Australia – Pama-Nyungan Migration?
The First Farmers and Their Offspring.
Where and When Did Food Production Begin?
Food Production and Population Expansion.
Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration.
The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex.
Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent.
Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent.
Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex.
West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene.
Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History.
The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa.
The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia.
The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes.
Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia.
Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.
The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory.
The African and American Food Production Complexes.
Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The African Food Production Complex in Perspective.
Holocene Migrations in the Americas.
The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory.
The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity.