Out of Asia : peopling the Americas and the Pacific

Mostly based on contributions to the symposia on "Peopling the Americas"and "Peopling the Pacific" at the XIth International congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Vancouver in August,1983.

Author(s): Kirk, Robert, Szathmary, Sm«Ùke. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (11th : 1983 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Publisher: Journal of Pacific History

Place of Publication: Canberra, Australia,

Type: Book

Page Count: viii, 226 p.

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Description

1. The initial peopling of the Americas: an overview — 2. The peopling of the Americas as viewed from South America — 3. The dental search for Native American origins — 4. Peopling of North America : clues from genetic studies — 5. Origins and affinities of Japanese as viewed from cranial measurements — 6. Mitochondrial DNA variation and the spread of modern populations — 7. The Negritos: genetic origins and microevolution — 8. Migration and admixture in the Pacific: insights provided by Human Leucocyte Antigens — 9. The peopling of the Pacific: a linguistic appraisal — 10. The Proto-Oceanic language community — 11. The Lapita cultural complex: origins, distribution, contemporaries and successors — 12. The Polynesian outliers: continuity, change and replacement

Reference

Biomedical (Vancouver Style):

Kirk, Robert, Szathmary, Sm«Ùke. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (11th : 1983 : Vancouver, B.C.). Out of Asia : peopling the Americas and the Pacific. Canberra, Australia,: Journal of Pacific History; 1985.