Under the canopy
Subtitle: the archaeology of tropical rain forests
By: edited by Julio Mercader.
Contributors: Mercader, Julio, 1966-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Brunswick; Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813531427
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- Tropics; Hunting and gathering societies -- Tropics; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Tropics; Rain forests; Tropics -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The paleolithic settlement of rain forests / Julio Mercader; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.