The palaeolithic settlement of Asia / Robin Dennell

Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-539) and index.

Asia and its place in palaeoanthropology -- The African background to the colonisation of Asia -- The climatic background to hominin settlement in Asia before 1 MA -- The earliest inhabitants of Southwest Asia -- The earliest inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia and China --'Out of Africa 1' reconsidered and the earliest colonisation of Asia -- The climatic and environmental background to hominin settlement in Asia between ca. 1 Ma and the last interglacial -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record for Southwest and Central Asia -- The middle pleistocene archaeological record of the Indian subcontinent -- The middle archaeological record of China and Southeast Asia -- Human evolution in Asia during the middle pleistocene.