Under the canopy : the archaeology of tropical rain forests / edited by Julio Mercader.

Other author Mercader, Julio, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionvii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Prehistoric peoples--Rain forests.
Hunting and gathering societies--Rain forests.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Rain forests.
Rain forests--Antiquities.

Contents Introduction: The paleolithic settlement of rain forests / Julio Mercader -- Pt. 1. African pioneers. The archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene / Joanna Casey ; The middle stone age occupation of Atlantic central Africa: new evidence from equatorial Guinea and Cameroon / Julio Mercader and Raquel Martí ; Foragers of the Congo: the early settlement of the Ituri forest / Julio Mercader -- Pt. 2. Australasian settlers. Hunter-gatherer occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age / F. David Bulbeck ; More than a million years of human occupation in insular southeast Asia: the early archaeology of eastern and central Java / François Sémah, Anne-Marie Sémah, and Truman Simanjuntak ; An archaeological assessment of rain forest occupation in northeast Queensland, Australia / Brit Asmussen -- Pt. 3. The last frontier: newcomers in a new world. Late Glacial and early Holocene occupation of Central American tropical forests / Anthony J. Ranere and Richard G. Cooke ; Holocene climate and human occupation in the Orinoco / William P. Barse ; Archaeological hunter-gatherers in tropical forests: a view from Colombia / Santiago Mora and Cristóbal Gnecco ; Hunter-gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition / Betty J. Meggers and Eurico Th. Miller.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002023717
ISBN081353142X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN890 .U53 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold