Human Roots*: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

Abstract

1 After 'After the Australopithecines' Hilary J Deacon 2 Mid-Pleistocene environmental change and human evolution Richard Potts 3 Mode 3, Homo helmei, and the pattern of human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene Marta Mirazon Lahr and Robert Foley 4 Chronometric dating of the Middle Pleistocene Henry P Schwarcz 5 Middle Pleistocene populations of southern Africa and the emergence of modern behaviour Hilary J Deacon and Sarah Wurz 6 Central Africa and the emergence of regional identity in the Middle Pleistocene Lawrence Barham 7 The Middle Pleistocene of east Africa Sally McBrearty 8 Northwestern African Middle Pleistocene hominids and their bearing on the emergence of Homo sapiens Jean-Jacques Hublin 9 Comparison of Middle Pleistocene hominids from Africa and Asia G Philip Rightmire 10 Chinese Middle Pleistocene hominids and modern human origins in east Asia Peter Brown 11 The Middle Pleistocene archaeology of the valley of the Yangtze River Wang Youping 12 An examination of culture and evolution of Middle Pleistocene Chinese hominids Susan G Keates 13 The Middle Pleistocene record of mainland southeast Asia Kate Robson Brown 14 An environmental approach to the fate of Homo erectus in Australasia Paul Storm 15 The Lower Palaeolithic of India and its behavioural significance Mike Petraglia 16 The Acheulian culture project of the Hunsgi and Baichbal Valleys, peninsular India K Paddayya