Mobility and ancient society in Asia and the Americas. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael David Frachetti, Robert N. Spengler III, editors.
• Editors: Frachetti, Michael D; III, Spengler, Robert N
• Other Names: International Conference on Great Human Migrations, 2nd
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Michael D Frachetti and Robert N. Spengler III -- Chapter 2: Nomadic Mobility, Migration, and Environmental Pressure in Eurasian Prehistory Michael D. Frachetti -- Chapter 3: Early Human Expansion into Kazakhstan and Subsequent Paleolithic Migrations Zh. K. Taimagambetov -- Chapter 4: Tracing Human Movements from Siberia to the Americas: Insights from Genetic Studies Theodore Schurr -- Chapter 5: Stemmed Points, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas Jon M. Erlandson and Todd J. Braje -- Chapter 6: The Initial Colonization of North America: Sea-Level Change, Shoreline Movement, and Great Migrations David G. Anderson and Thaddeus G. Bissett -- Chapter 7: Early Asiatic Migration to the Americas: A View from South America Gustavo Politis, Luciano Prates and S. Ivan Perez -- Chapter 8: Cranial Morphology of Early South Americans: Implications for Understanding Human Dispersion into the New World Mark Hubbe, Walter Neves and Katerina Harvati -- Chapter 9: How America was Colonized: Linguistic Evidence Johanna Nichols -- Chapter 10: Kinship, Demography, and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization: Some Western Canadian Perspectives John W. Ives -- Chapter 11: The Problem of Settlement of the American Continent: Old and New Objectives and Approaches Galina Ershova -- Chapter 12: Late Pleistocene Colonization of North America from Northeast Asia: New Insights from Large-scale Paleogeographic Reconstructions James E. Dixon -- Chapter 13: The Third Wave: The Results of the First International Meeting on Great Migrations and the Bronze Age Expansion out of Southern Arabia Olzhas Suleimenov.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.8; Social sciences; Immigrants -- Asia -- History; Immigrants -- America -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration; Immigrants; Social Sciences; Archaeology; Migration; Anthropology; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Migration, immigration & emigration; Anthropology; Archaeology; Migration; Anthropology; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; America; Asia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319151380; 3319151371; 9783319151373
• Related ISBNs: 331915138X; 9783319151373
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 27 2015).
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