Read Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World Online
Authors: Stephen Oppenheimer
Africa, changes to climate of
51–4
African exodus
northern route
54–67
possible routes
50–1
see also
single exodus; southern route
African Late Stone Age
118
African Middle Stone Age
117–20
Africans
see
Anatomically Modern Humans; modern Africans
Ahmarian tools
146–7
Americas
Clovis-first theory
281–7
date of first occupation
283–4
different cultures preserved in
335–8
disagreement over first occupation
280–1
,
287–94
entry point
341
genetic diversity in
307–13
genetic evidence of first occupation
302–22
,
327–31
,
331–4
Hebior site
293
language diversity in
294
,
296–300
at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
247
,
300
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
286
,
291–2
number of migrations into
301
,
305
,
306–7
,
319–31
,
341–2
Palaeo-Indians
325
re-expansion of North America
308–13
Schaefer site
293
single entry theory
320–1
Solutrean hypothesis
317–19
South America first colonization dates
322–4
Spirit Cave Man
322
Wizards Beach Man
322
Amerind speakers
300–1
,
305
,
306–7
,
310–13
,
336
Anatomically Modern Humans
ancestors of
107
stone technology of
98–103
Andaman Islands
157
Armenians
138
Arnhem Land shelters
160
art
African Middle Stone Age painting
120–1
Australian
xvii
,
29
,
56
,
108
,
112–13
,
160
Bhimbetka caves
121
European cave paintings
29
,
55
,
92
,
108
,
121
Saharan cliff paintings
52
Asia
European founders from
150–3
at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
247
,
350
mammalian movement into
67–8
see also
Central Asia; East Asia;
Island Southeast Asia;
Mongoloid populations; South
Asia; Southeast Asia
Aurignacian culture
131–3
,
138
,
144
,
148
Australia
art in
xvii
,
29
,
56
,
108
,
112–13
,
160
colonization of (northern route theory)
59–61
colonization of (southern route theory)
57–8
,
77–8
date of colonization of
82
,
109
,
159–71
single exodus descendants in
171
window of opportunity theory
161–6
Y chromosome main types in
191
Australians
physical appearance
174
skin colour
199
skull size reduction
204
teeth shape
209
australopithecines
5–7
,
8
,
10
,
13–14
Azerbaijanis
138
B mtDNA group
231
,
263
,
264
,
305
,
308
,
310–13
,
333–4
,
337–8
,
340–2
Bailliet, Graciela
314
Bandelt, Hans-Jurgen
61
,
309
,
314
Baradostian industry
147
beachcombing
Australian sites
163–4
begins in African Middle Stone Age
124–7
evidence for southern exodus
76–7
,
80
tools at Red Sea site
99
trail around Indian Ocean
156–9
bear mtDNA
339
Bednarik, Robert
121
Bellwood, Peter
167
,
168
,
261
,
276
Berber motif
63
Berhe, Seife
125–6
Bering Strait
309
Beringia
309–13
,
321
,
334
,
338
,
341–2
Bhimbetka caves
121
biology
creationist view of language
29–32
European cultural revolution and
xvi–xvii
,
107–28
relationship with culture
18–21
,
106–14
blades
91
,
100–3
,
115
,
117
,
118
,
272
,
273
Bowdler, Sandra
167
brain
asymmetry
30–1
and body size
22
development
23
language and size increase of
25–8
,
31–3
maturation
22
sociability and size increase of
24–5
Bronowski, Jacob
1
brown bear mtDNA
339
Brown, Michael
318
Brown, Peter
269
built hearths
104–6
Burials
105–6
C mtDNA group
231
,
234–5
,
255
,
264
,
305
,
308
,
310–13
,
331
,
332
,
337
,
341
Cain (C, RPS4Y) paternal clan
84
,
171
,
184
,
187
,
190–1
,
236
,
269
,
270
,
331
Cann, Rebecca
45
Carpathian Mountains
252
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude
76
Caucasus, the
145–7
Central Asia
dating colonization of
348
genetic origins in
235
at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
253–5
transition between East and West
191–2
Central Narmada Basin
73
Cerebellum
22–3
cerebral cortex
22–3
Chamberlin, Thomas
281
Chatters, James
315–16
Chauvet Cave paintings
29
,
55
,
92
,
108
,
121
Chenchu people
157
,
182
,
183–4
,
185
,
187
Chile, Monte Verde site
286
,
287–90
chimpanzees
close relationship with humans
33
hunting by
12–13