Recent discoveries and perspectives in human evolution : papers arising from 'Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century' Manchester 2013 / edited by Anek R. Sankhyan.

Author/creator Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century (Conference)
Other author Sankhyan, A. R. (Anek Ram), 1951- editor.
Other author International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2013 : Manchester, England)
Format Book
PublicationOxford, England : Archaeopress, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionvi, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBAR international series ; 2719
BAR international series ; 2719. ^A516054
Contents Recent discoveries and perspectives in human evolution: Introduction / Anek R. Sankhyan -- A new juvenile cranium from Zhaotong City, southwest China indicates complexity of hominoid evolution in eastern Asia / Ji Xueping, Deng Chenglong & Yu Tengsong -- Australopithecines shoulders: new remains for old debate / Jean-Luc Voisin -- Hominin palaeoanthropology in Asia comes of age / Robin Dennell -- Pleistocene hominin fossil discoveries in India: implications for human evolution in South Asia / Anek R. Sankhyan -- Geoarchaeological and environmental aspects of the Central Narma da alluvium / Satya Dev & Anek R. Sankhyan -- The role of Balkans in peopling of Europe: new evidence from Serbia / Mirjana Roksandic -- The role of landscapes in shaping hominin habitats in Africa / Sally C. Reynolds -- The Denisova Genome: an unexpected window into the past / John Hawks -- Preliminary results on the first paleontological, anthropological and archaeological Pleistocene locality in Adrar, Mauritania / Chérif Ousmane Toure & Anne Dambricourt Malasse -- The Orsang Man: a robust Homo sapiens in central India with Asian Homo erectus features / Anne Dambricourt Malasse, Rachna Raj & S. Shah -- Geoarchaeology of the fluvial terraces of middle Tagus River, central Portugal / Satya Dev -- Morphometrics of the frontal bone: a new method for measuring intracranial profiles / Yannick Korpal -- Discovery of two prehistoric sites at Galudih in east Singbhum, Jharkhand: a study in typo technology and geomorphology / Ratna Bhattacharya -- Unbalanced endemic island faunas: are hominins the exception? / Anneke H. Van Heteren -- Imaging Oldowan-Acheulian knappers: scope & limitations / Tanusree Pandi & Anek R. Sankhyan -- Pleistocene beads and cognitive evolution / Robert G. Bednarik -- The Andaman pygmy: origins and new adaptations / Anek R. Sankhyan & Ramesh Sahani -- Amazing skills: practice of trepanation around the world / Alexandra Comşa & Anek R. Sankhyan -- Decryption of ethnic identity of the white mummies in Tarim Basin, China / Xinyan Chi -- Identification of a breast cancer BRCA1 mutation in West Bengal, India / Abhishikta Ghos Roy, B.N. Sarkar, R.Roy & A.R. Bandopadhyay -- Depleting biosphere reserves: traditional and modern concerns in India / Umesh Kumar -- Rock art in India: a data appraisal / Somnath Chakraverty -- Astronomical orientation of the trepanned neolithic woman of Burzahom, Kashmir / Iharka Szücs-Csillik, Alexandra Comşa & Anek R. Sankhyan.
General note" ...under the auspices of the 17th IUAES in August 2013 at Manchester (U.K.)"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN140731372X (pbk)
ISBN9781407313726 (pbk)

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