以「臺灣原鄉論」、「早期農業假說」聞名，全球知名考古學家彼得．貝爾伍德全新力作演化、遷徙、語言到農業，一本讀懂人類五百萬演化史起源與演化，五百萬年的漫漫長路自與黑猩猩分道揚鑣以來，人類踏上了五百萬年漫長的演化之路。南方古猿、直立人、尼安德塔人到智人，在遷徙、適應、演化、繁衍中逐步發展成今日的樣貌。本書作者彼得．貝爾伍德，為研究農業與人群擴散最權威的學者之一，他利用考古學、語言學、生物學等多種學科，一一呈現古代人族的演化脈絡，讓讀者理解人類如何一步步成為今日的我們。遷徙與擴散，語言、文化散布的全球旅程遷徙是塑造現代人類多樣性的另一關鍵力量。自人族出走非洲，跨越歐亞大陸、進入澳洲與美洲，其間的移動不僅改變了人口分布，也促成語言家族與文化習俗的擴散。從古人類的生存策略、工具使用，到早期農業定居點的建立，這些歷史事件共同...

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In The Five-Million-Year Odyssey, Peter Bellwood synthe...

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the worldThis fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years. It commences with the archaeological records from the multiple homelands of agriculture...

How Our Restless Ancestors Shaped the Interconnected World We Live in TodayFirst Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective reveals how human and hominin migrations over the past five million years shaped the world we inhabit today. Peter Bellwood synthesises insights from archaeology, palaeoanthropology, genetics, and linguistics to trace humanity’s earliest movements — from the first African expansions to the global spread of agriculture...

Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.

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...

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizophrenic state of mind known as Hog Fever. On the surface this is the story of a man, a motorcycle, and a teetering bank balance. But lurking beneath, occasionally visible like threads through faded denim, is the story of a man in search of freedom—or at least one last stab at it.Motivated by the emasculating success of his British screenwriter wife and a love of E...

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus for the first recorded sea crossings; as the region of origin for the Austronesian population dispersal across the Pacific from Neolithic times; as an arena for the development of archaeologically-...

Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory.Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, genetics, biology, linguistics, and moreIncludes contributions from a diverse interna...