Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence

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Steve Webb (Professor of Australian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University, Australia)

Made in Africa

Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence

Steve Webb (Professor of Australian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University, Australia)

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Academic Press Inc
09 May 2018

Archaeology; Early man; Palaeontology

Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes and documents the largest collection of modern human remains in the world from its time period. These Australian fossils, which represent modern humans at the end of their great 20,000 km journey from Africa, may be reburied in the next two years at the request of the Aboriginal community.

Part one of the book provides an overview of modern humans, their ancestors, and their journeys, explores the construct of human evolution over the last two and half million years, and defines the background to the first hominins and later modern humans to leave Africa, cross the world and meet other archaic peoples who had also travelled and undergone similar evolutionary pathways.

Part two focuses on Australia and the evidence for its earliest people. The Willandra Lakes fossils represent the earliest arrivals and are the largest and most diverse late Pleistocene collection from this part of the world. Although twenty to twenty-five thousand years younger than the oldest archaeological site in Australia, they exemplify the migrating end-point of the human story that reflect a diversity and culture not recorded elsewhere in the world.

Part three records the Willandra Lake Collection itself from a photographic and descriptive perspective.

Evolutionary biologists and geneticists will find this book to be a valuable documentation of the 20,000 km hominid migration from Africa to the most distant parts of the world, and of the challenges and findings of the Willandra Lake Collection.

By: Steve Webb (Professor of Australian Studies Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Australia)
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780128147986
ISBN 10: 0128147989
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 09 May 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART 1 THE LONGEST WALK1. A View from Kakadu2. Ancestors of the Ancestors3. Leaving Africa4. AE3: On the Road Again PART 2 PEOPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD5. History and Geography of the Willandra Lakes Collection6. Osteological Features of WLH 1, 2 and 37. One of a Kind: WLH 508. Impenetrable Obscurity PART 3 THE WILLANDRA LAKE COLLECTION: A RECORD9. A Descriptive Overview of the First Australians10. Photographic and Descriptive Catalogue of the WLC Postscript: The Legacy of Modern Humans

Professor Steve Webb currently serves as Professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, Australia. He has worked with the Federal Government and Indigenous agencies extensively, playing a significant role in the repatriation of Aboriginal skeletal remains from Australian and overseas museums to Aboriginal communities. This work has given him a broad understanding of past and present Aboriginal society and the issues facing Aboriginal people.