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Tim Denham

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UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications

In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based interpretation of early agriculture that has broader application to other regions of the world.The multi-disciplinary record from the highlands ...

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Dennis A. Ahlburg, Dakota Camacho, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Glenn Banks, John Barker, Simon Batterbury, Aletta Biersack, Hans Juergen Boehmer, Gilianne Brodie, Bruce Burns, Professor John Connell, Ron Crocombe, Ojeya Cruz Banks, George Curry, Tim Denham, Brian Diettrich, Ron Duncan, Tony Falkland, Colin Filer, Navi Fong, Gerard J. Fryer, Patricia Fryer, Stephen Galvin, Philomena Gangaiya, David Welchman Gegeo, Paul Geraghty, Lorenz Gonschor, Tiaki Kerei, Nicholas Halter, Matthew Hayward, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Jara Hulkenberg, Thomas Ibanez, Uwe Kaufmann, David M. Kennedy, Gunnar Keppel, Gina Koczberski, Matthias Kowasch, Roselyn Kumar, Lamont Lindstrom, Maebh Long, Rick Lumpkin, Harley I. Manner, Hamish A. McGowan, Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer, Bradley Moore, Clare Morrison, R. John Morrison, Apisalome Movono, Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Stephen G. Nelson, Patrick D. Nunn, Kalei Nu‘uhiwa, Patrick Pikacha, Emma Ngakuravaru Powell, Kirstie Petrou, Tia Reihana-Morunga, Will Rollason, Richard Scaglion, Andrew P. Sturman, Henryk Szadziewski, Lynne D. Talley, John Taylor, Randolph R. Thaman, Frank R. Thomas, Nunia Thomas-Moko, Jaap Timmer, Alexander Trupp, Caroline Vercoe, Camellia Webb-Gannon, Eberhard Weber, Terence Wesley-Smith, Vehia Wheeler, Ian White, Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu

The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this “sea of islands,” they established thriving communities where they lived for thousands of years. Today, although island ecosystems and cultures are facing great change, Pacific Island peoples remain resilient.This new edition of a popular text r...

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Clive Finlayson

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago.But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that...

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Scott Cane

First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania. With photos from the ABC TV series of the same name.Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great sout...

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Jaboury Ghazoul

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Very Short Introductions

Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation, and yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain surprisingly dependent on forests for a wide range of goods and services. Moreover, forests still retain a remarkable hold on our environmental values. In an era of continuing tropical deforestation and temperate forest resurgence, and in the midst of un...

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Neil Roberts

The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated by human actions, including those of climate and greenhouse gases. Understanding the environmental changes - both natural and anthropogenic - that have occurred during the Holocene is o...

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Clive Finlayson

Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical role in shaping the direction of human evolution, contributing to our spread and success. He argues that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving the forest and forcing their way into a long-established community of...

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Peter Bellwood

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...

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Peter Hiscock

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerable experience of teaching at the Australian National University. Lucidly written, it shows the diversity and colourfulness of the history of humanity in the southern continent.The Archaeology of Ancient Australia demonstrates with an arra...

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J. L. Chapman, M. J. Reiss

Ecology: Principles and Applications is a comprehensive textbook for A-level students and first-year undergraduates taking courses in biology, geography and Earth sciences, who require an introduction to ecology. Studies of human ecology are integrated into the text, and the links to related disciplines are emphasised. The text begins with the ecology of individual organisms and moves on, through communities and ecosystems, to global considerations of biogeography, co-evolution and conserv...

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Paul A. Keddy

Richly illustrated and packed with numerous examples, this unique global perspective introduces wetland ecology from basic principles to advanced applications. Thoroughly revised and reorganised, this new edition of this prize-winning textbook begins with underlying causal factors, before moving on to more advanced concepts that add depth and context. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the basic principles covered, illustrated with clear examples. More difficult concepts and except...

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Kevin J. Gaston, John I. Spicer

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it.Timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific wayActs as an easy entry point into the primary literatureProvides real-world examples of key issues, including illustrations of major tempo...