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From Arabia to the Pacific

How Our Species Colonised Asia

By: Robin Dennell

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From Arabia to the Pacific

How Our Species Colonised Asia

By: Robin Dennell

Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and explains why we were so successful as a colonising species. The colonisation of Asia by our species was one of the most momentous events in human evolution. Starting around or before 100,000 years ago, humans began to disperse out of Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, and then across southern Asia through India, Southeast Asia and south China. They learnt to build boats and sail to the islands of Southeast Asia, from which they reached Australia by 50,000 years ago. Around that time, humans also dispersed from the Levant through Iran, Central Asia, southern Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau, north China and the Japanese islands, and they also colonised Siberia as far north as the Arctic Ocean. By 30,000 years ago, humans had colonised the whole of Asia from Arabia to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean as well as the European Peninsula. In doing so, we replaced all other types of humans such as Neandertals and ended five million years of human diversity. Using interdisciplinary source material, From Arabia to the Pacific charts this process and draws conclusions as to the factors which made it possible. It will be invaluable to scholars of prehistory, and archaeologists and anthropologists interested in how the human species moved out of Africa and spread throughout Asia.

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1000062341

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From Arabia to the Pacific

How Our Species Colonised Asia

By: Robin Dennell

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How Our Species Colonised Asia

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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia

By: Robin Dennell

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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia

By: Robin Dennell

This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic background from Southwest, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as China. He presents an authoritative and comprehensive framework for investigations of Asia's oldest societies, challenges many long-standing assumptions about its earliest inhabitants, and places Asia centrally in the discussions of human evolution in the past two million years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316583074

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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

By: Robin Dunbar,Clive Gamble,John Gowlett

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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

By: Robin Dunbar,Clive Gamble,John Gowlett

A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human lives We are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of humans and Neanderthals, and bringing together different perspectives to answer common questions. These collaborations have brought new knowledge and suggested fresh concepts to examine. The results have shaken the old certainties. The results are profound; not just for the study of the past but for appreciating why we conduct our social lives in ways, and at scales, that are familiar to all of us. But such basic familiarity raises a dilemma. When surrounded by the myriad technical and cultural innovations that support our global, urbanized lifestyles we can lose sight of the small social worlds we actually inhabit and that can be traced deep into our ancestry. So why do we need art, religion, music, kinship, myths, and all the other facets of our over-active imaginations if the reality of our effective social worlds is set by a limit of some one hundred and fifty partners (Dunbar’s number) made of family, friends, and useful acquaintances? How could such a social community lead to a city the size of London or a country as large as China? Do we really carry our hominin past into our human present? It is these small worlds, and the link they allow to the study of the past that forms the central point in this book.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500772142

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9780500772140

The Archaeology of South Asia

From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE

By: Robin Coningham,Ruth Young

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The Archaeology of South Asia

From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE

By: Robin Coningham,Ruth Young

This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character of the Indus civilisation, with its town planning, sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities and international trade. They also consider the strong cultural links between the Indus civilisation and the second, later period of South Asian urbanism which began in the first millennium BCE and developed through the early first millennium CE. In addition to examining the evidence for emerging urban complexity, this book gives equal weight to interactions between rural and urban communities across South Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural areas in social and economic development. The authors explore how narratives of continuity and transformation have been formulated in analyses of South Asia's Prehistoric and Early Historic archaeological record.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316418987

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Unearthing childhood

Young lives in prehistory

By: Robin Derricourt

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Unearthing childhood

Young lives in prehistory

By: Robin Derricourt

This is the first book to survey the ‘hidden half’ of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology – from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age foragers, from farming villages to the beginnings of civilisation. Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. The burials of those who did not reach adulthood reveal clothing, personal adornment, possession and status in society, while the bodies themselves provide information on diet, health and sometimes violent death. This book demonstrates the extraordinary potential for the study of childhood within the prehistoric record, and will suggest to those interested in childhood what can be learnt from the study of the deep past.

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463

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Manchester University Press

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1526128098

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9781526128096

Dragon Keeper

By: Robin Hobb

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Dragon Keeper

By: Robin Hobb

Dragon Keeper returns fans to Hobb's best-loved world, full of dragons, magical ships and unforgettable characters. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Many have died along the way. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. One such is Thymara. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching; as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons. But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly; some seem witless and bestial. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them. To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist.

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Voyager

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0008154392

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9780008154394

My Song to My Son

By: Barbara Farrell-Moshier Brown

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My Song to My Son

By: Barbara Farrell-Moshier Brown

A song for my son, was written for you change the name and see what kids do. Imaginations are far and few have fun with them also becomes fun for you With learning or play sing kids a song it makes fun for the day. If you rock them to sleep or comfort a fall sooth a baby's belly, a song will cure it all.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated

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1098072480

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9781098072483

Robin Hood

By: Koontz

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Robin Hood

By: Koontz

Robin Hood encourages young learners to build reading comprehension skills with grade-appropriate vocabulary, extension activities, and an engaging story. Featuring reading activities and a Comprehension & Extension section, this 24-page title introduces transitioning readers to teacher-focused concepts that will help them gain important reading comprehension and learning skills. The vibrant illustrations and engaging leveled text in the Little Birdie Books’ Leveled Readers work together to tell fun stories while supporting early readers. Featuring grade-appropriate vocabulary and activities, these books help children develop essential skills for reading proficiency.

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Carson-Dellosa Publishing

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1618104454

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Dragon Haven

By: Robin Hobb

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Dragon Haven

By: Robin Hobb

Returning to the world of the Tawny Man trilogy, the second volume in the acclaimed "New York Times"-bestselling fantasy writer's thrilling two-part tale of resurgent dragons in a world that needs--and fears--them.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0007349106

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The Golden Fool

By: Robin Hobb

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The Golden Fool

By: Robin Hobb

Fitz has succeeded in rescuing Prince Dutiful from the clutches of the Piebald rebels, and has returned with him to Buckkeep castle. With Dutiful safe again, Queen Kettricken can proceed with plans to marry him to the Outislander princess, Elliania.

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0002247275

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9780002247276

The Rain Wild Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

By: Robin Hobb

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The Rain Wild Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

By: Robin Hobb

The complete Rain Wild Chronicles by international bestselling author Robin Hobb. This bundle includes DRAGON KEEPER, DRAGON HAVEN, CITY OF DRAGONS and BLOOD OF DRAGONS. ‘In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons’ George R.R. Martin

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0008113734

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City of Dragons

By: Robin Hobb

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City of Dragons

By: Robin Hobb

Accompanied by human keepers, the dragons embark on a dangerous journey to their ancient, mythical homeland of Kelsingera, and along the way form deep bonds with the humans that are severely tested during the journey's final days

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0008154414

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Golden Fool

By: Robin Hobb

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Golden Fool

By: Robin Hobb

With Prince Dutiful safely back in the Farseer fold, FitzChivalry finds himself thrust back into his old life at Buckkeep, once more the secret spy behind the walls--only this time not just as Chade's apprentice.

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Spectra

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0553801511

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9780553801514

The Mad Ship

By: Robin Hobb

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The Mad Ship

By: Robin Hobb

The second volume in The Liveship Traders series. It follows The Ship of Magic.

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673

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0002247135

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9780002247139

Dragon Keeper

Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles

By: Robin Hobb

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Dragon Keeper

Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles

By: Robin Hobb

Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labor and expense of tending earthbound dragons who were hatched weak and deformed. If neglected, the creatures will rampage—or die—so it is decreed that they must move farther upriver toward Kelsingra, the mythical homeland whose location is locked deep within the dragons’ uncertain ancestral memories. Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned—as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals... and joys beyond their wildest imaginings.

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0061561657

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Book's by Robin Dennell

From Arabia to the Pacific

From Arabia to the Pacific

From Arabia to the Pacific

From Arabia to the Pacific

The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia

The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

The Archaeology of South Asia

The Archaeology of South Asia

Unearthing childhood

Unearthing childhood

Dragon Keeper

Dragon Keeper

My Song to My Son

My Song to My Son

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Dragon Haven

Dragon Haven

The Golden Fool

The Golden Fool

The Rain Wild Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

The Rain Wild Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

City of Dragons

City of Dragons

Golden Fool

Golden Fool

The Mad Ship

The Mad Ship

Dragon Keeper

Dragon Keeper

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