Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins

1. The past and present of human origins in Southern Asia and Australia Robin Dennell and Martin Porr; 2. Asia and human evolution: from cradle of mankind to cul-de-sac Robin Dennell; 3. 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 in southern Asia Robin Dennell; 5. An Arabian perspective on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa Huw Groucutt and Michael Petraglia; 6. The Indian subcontinent and modern human origins Michael Petraglia and James Blinkhorn; 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) Graeme Barker and Chris Hunt; 9. Faunal biogeography in island Southeast Asia: implications for early hominin and modern human dispersals Mike Morwood; 10. Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies in Island Southeast Asia and its 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 Armand Salvador B. Mijares, Philip J. Piper and Alfred F. Pawlik; 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. Explaining prehistoric human behavioural change: 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 debates on modern human behaviour Glenn R. Summerhayes and Anne Ford; 18. Modern human spread from Aden to the Antipodes, and then Europe: with passengers and when? Stephen Oppenheimer; 19. It's the thought that counts: unpacking the package of behaviour of the first Australians Iain Davidson; 20. Essential questions: 'modern humans' and the capacity for modernity Martin Porr.