Out of Africa I

Part I. The African Background1. Early Pleistocene mammals of Africa: background to dispersal. Meave Leakey and Lars Werdelin2. Carnivoran dispersal out of Africa during the Early Pleistocene: relevance for hominins?Margaret E. Lewis and Lars Werdelin3. Saharan corridors and their role in the evolutionary geography of 'Out of Africa I'.Marta Mirazón Lahr4. Stone Age visiting cards revisited: a strategic perspective on the lithic technology of early hominin dispersal.John J. SheaPart II. Eastern Asia5. Behavioral and environmental background to 'Out-of-Africa I' and the arrival of Homo erectus in East Asia.Richard Potts and Robin Teague6. New archeological evidence for the earliest hominin presence in China. Ya-Mei Hou and Ling-Xia Zhao7. Geological evidence for the earliest appearance of hominins in Indonesia. Yahdi Zaim8. Divorcing hominins from the Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna: new views on the antiquity of hominins in Asia.Russell L. CiochonPart III. South Asia9. Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of India and evidence of connections with other parts of the world.Rajeev Patnaik and Avinash C. Nanda10. The Indian subcontinent and 'Out of Africa 1'Parth R. Chauhan11. The Early Paleolithic of the Indian subcontinent: hominin colonization, dispersals and occupation history.Michael D. PetragliaPart IV. Europe and Western Asia12. Early Pleistocene faunal connections between Africa and Eurasia: an ecological perspective.Miriam Belmaker 13. Early Pleistocene faunas of Eurasia and hominin dispersalsBienvenido Martínez-Navarro14. Fossil skulls from Dmanisi: a paleodeme representing earliest Homo in EurasiaG. Philip Rightmire and David LordkipanidzePart V. Summary, Synthesis and Future Directions15. "Out of Africa 1": current problems and future prospectsRobin Dennell16. Summary and ProspectusJohn G. Fleagle and John J. Shea

John Fleagle is Distinguished Professor of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. He has conducted paleontological field work in many parts of the world, including Argentina, Egypt, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. He is the author of the textbook Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1988, 1999, Elsevier), Co-Editor of the Human Evolution Sourcebook (1993, 2006, Prentice Hall) and the Editor of journal Evolutionary Anthropology.