Howells .:. Early Man in the Far East

Howells, W. W. [ed.],
Early Man in the Far East. Oosterhoud: Anthropological Publ., 1969. 157 Seiten mit Abbildungen. und einer Faltkarte. Broschur. Grossoktav. 239 x 160 mm. 260 g

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* A Symposium of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the American Anthropological Association, Dec. 28, 1946.
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Howells | Vorgeschichte | Fruehgeschichte | Ostasien | Archaeologie | Suedasien

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. W. W. Howells

GEOLOGY AND CLIMATE AS FACTORS or HUMAN EVOLUTION IN ASIA.
Helmut de Terra

LOWER PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTHERN ASIA AND THE FAR EAST.
Hallam L. Movius, 17
Pleistocene chronology 18
Java 19
Upper Burma 23
Northwestern India 26
Northern China 29
Summary and Conclusions 34
Terminology 35
The Lower Paleolithic of Java 9, 38
The Early Anyathian culture of Burma u, 46
The Lower Paleolithie cultures of Northwestern India 52
The Choukoutienian culture of Northern China 60
Summary and conclusions 70

THE DISCOVERY or EARLY MAN IN JAVA AND SOUTTH CHINA.
R. von Koenigswald 83
Java 83
China 93
Summary of Java Hominids 96

SOME PALEONTOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES SIGNIFICANT IN HUMAN EVOLUTION.
Edwin A. Colbert 103
Introduction 103
Adaptive radiation 104
Parallelism
Irreversibility of evolution 117
Orthogenesis 130
Extinction 135
Summary 144

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE FOSSIL MATERIAL. Franz Weidenreich 149
Addendum 155

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