Overview

The present book entitled 'Recent Discoveries and Perspectives in Human Evolution' is the outcome of the International conference panel BH13 'Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century' organized by Dr A.R. Sankhyan under the auspices of the 17th IUAES in August 2013 at Manchester (U.K.). The scholars who attended the conference came from many countries and the contributions included here represent almost all continents. The book covers a wide range of topics of special interest to researchers in human evolution in the field of palaeoanthropology. They include new hominoid and hominin discoveries, ancient genomics, prehistoric archaeology, bio-stratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeo-environments, Palaeo-habitats, ancient cranial surgical practices across continents and archaeo-astronomy. There are special critical observations on the prehistoric Denisovans, on the origins of the Andaman pygmies and Indonesian Hobbits, on Indian prehistoric rock art and concerns for the biosphere reserves. Overall, it also attracts social and cultural historians and general readers interested in the evolvution of man and the expansion of humanity.

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Author:   Anek R Sankhyan
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   2719
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.949kg
ISBN:  

9781407313726

ISBN 10:   140731372
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   31 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A new juvenile cranium from Zhaotong City, Southwest China indicates complexity of hominoid evolution in Eastern Asia (Ji Xueping, Deng Chenglong and 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); The role of Balkans in people 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 and Anne DambricourtMalasse); The Orsang Man: a robust Homo sapiens in central India with Asian Homo Erectus features (Anne Dambricourt Malasse, Rachna Raj and 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 and limitations (Tanusree Pandit and Anek R. Sankhyan); Pleistocene beads and cognitive evolution (Robert G. Bednarik); The Andaman pygmy: origins and new adaptations (Anek R. Sankhyan and Ramesh Sahani); Amazing skills: practice of trepanation around the world (Alexandra Comsa and 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 Ghosh Roy, B. N. Sarkar, R. Roy and 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 Comsa and Anek R. Sankhyan)

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