ISBN10: 0195201035, ISBN13: 9780195201031, [publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979, 1978] Hardcover 462 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm ; ISBN: 0195201035; 9780195201031 LCCN: 78-59765 ; LC: GN871; Dewey: 959 ; OCLC: 4716799 ; periwinkle lavender cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: 1. Introduction: Southeast Asia and Oceania ; Races, languages, ethnic groups and prehistory -- 2. Human populations : past and present: Present populations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific ; Genetic studies on Pacific populations ; Evolutionary processes in Oceania ; Natural selection, clines and gene flow ; Genetic drift and genetic distances ; The prehistoric record of man in Southeast Asia and the Pacific ; Homo erctus and modern man in Eastern Asia ; The racial history of Oceania -- 3. Cultural foundations: The Pleistocene epoch in Southesast Asia ; Industries of the Middle Pleistocene ; The Upper Pleistocene period ; Australia ; New Guinea ; The Hoabinhian technocomplex of the Southeast Asian mainland: North Vietnam. Malaya. Thailand. Laos and Cambodia. Sumatra. South China and Taiwan. The Hoabinhian sequence : a summary. Hoabinhian economy ; The earlier Holocene in island Southeast Asia : the flake and blade technocomplex ; Summary -- 4. The cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania: The Southeast Asian mainland ; Island Southesast Asia ; The peoples of Oceania ; Melanesia ; The New Guinea highlands ; Island Melanesia ; Trade networks ...
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