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...

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...

This volume reports on ongoing fieldwork by the British Mission, plus the results of a previous season 1986-90, which focused on the Jhelum Basin in the Pabbi Hills in northern Pakistan. The aim was to find evidence for early hominid occupation and to place this in its environmental and chronological context'. Much of the volume presents, mostly in tables, the geological and environmental data and fossilised occurrences from a series of surveys. This is followed by a discussion of the stone artefacts and a synthesis of results which makes comparison with material from elsewhere in Asia and...