ISBN:
9783319151373
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3319151371
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9783319151380
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 202 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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27 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Paleo-Indians Congresses
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Origin
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Prehistoric peoples Congresses
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Migrations
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Asia
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Prehistoric peoples Congresses
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Migrations
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America
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Human beings Congresses
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Migrations
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene (ca. 20,000-15,000 years ago). This volume bridges scholarly traditions from Europe, Central Asia, and North and South America, bringing different perspectives into a common view. The book presents an international overview of an ongoing discussion that is relevant to the ancient history of both Eurasia and the Americas. The content of the chapters provides both geographic and conceptual coverage of main currents in contemporary scholarly research, including case studies from Inner Asia (Kazakhstan), southwest Siberia, northeast Siberia, and North and South America. The chapters consider the trajectories, ecology, and social dynamics of ancient mobility, communication, and adaptation in both Eurasia and the Americas, using diverse methodologies of data recovery ranging from archaeology, historical linguistics, ancient DNA, human osteology, and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Although methodologically diverse, the chapters are each broadly synthetic in nature and present current scholarly views of when, and in which ways, societies from northeast Asia ultimately spread eastward (and southward) into North and South America, and how we might reconstruct the cultures and adaptations related to Paleolithic groups. Ultimately, this book provides a unique synthetic perspective that bridges Asia and the Americas and brings the ancient evidence from both sides of the Bering Strait into common focus
Note:
Selected papers from the Second International Conference on "Great Migrations" held at Columbia University, November 30-December 3, 2011, co-organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. (Foreword, Acknowledgments). - Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction
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2. Nomadic mobility, migration, and environmental pressure in Eurasian prehistory
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3. Early human expansion into Kazakhstan and subsequent Paleolithic migrations
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4. Tracing human movements from Siberia to the Americas : insights from genetic studies
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5. Stemmed points, the coastal migration theory, and the peopling of the Americas
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6. The initial colonization of North America : sea level change, shoreline movement, and great migrations
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7. Early Asiatic migration to the Americas : a view from South America
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8. Cranial morphology of early South Americans : implications for understanding human dispersion into the New World
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9. How America was colonized : linguistic evidence
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10. Kinship, demography, and Paleoindian modes of colonization : some western Canadian perspectives
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11. The problem of the settlement of the Americas : old and new objectives and approaches
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12. Late Pleistocene colonization of North America from northeast Asia : new insights from large-scale paleogeographic reconstructions
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13. The third wave : the results of the First International Meeting on Great Migrations and the Bronze Age expansion out of southern Arabia
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