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Archeology --- artifacts [object genre] --- Upper Paleolithic --- Mesolithic --- Stone age

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"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, theoretical eclecticism, the centrality of field research, and the ability to 'dream big,' but with a commonsense approach to the record and its limitations." Lawrence Guy Straus, Journal of Anthropological Research

Anthropology / General --- Freeman, Leslie G. --- Human paleontology --- Freeman, L. G. --- Freeman, Leslie F., --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Paleoanthropology --- Anthropology, Prehistoric --- Paleolithic period --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Paleontology --- Physical anthropology --- Fossil hominids --- Prehistoric anthropology --- Archaeology --- Bison --- Cave of Altamira --- Mousterian --- Paleolithic --- Torralba and Ambrona (archaeological site) --- Upper Paleolithic

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The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In The Five-Million-Year Odyssey, Peter Bellwood synthesizes research from archaeology, biology, anthropology, and linguistics to immerse us in the saga of human evolution, from the earliest traces of our hominin forebears in Africa, through waves of human expansion across the continents, and to the rise of agriculture and explosive demographic growth around the world.Bellwood presents our modern diversity as a product of both evolution, which led to the emergence of the genus Homo approximately 2.5 million years ago, and migration, which carried humans into new environments. He introduces us to the ancient hominins—including the australopithecines, Homo erectus, the Neanderthals, and others—before turning to the appearance of Homo sapiens circa 300,000 years ago and subsequent human movement into Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas. Bellwood then explores the invention of agriculture, which enabled farmers to disperse to new territories over the last 10,000 years, facilitating the spread of language families and cultural practices. The outcome is now apparent in our vast array of contemporary ethnicities, linguistic systems, and customs.The fascinating origin story of our varied human existence, The Five-Million-Year Odyssey underscores the importance of recognizing our shared genetic heritage to appreciate what makes us so diverse.

Human evolution. --- Acheulean. --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- Agriculture. --- Ancient DNA. --- Ancient Egypt. --- Archaeological site. --- Archaeology. --- Asceticism. --- Asian people. --- Australopithecine. --- Austronesian languages. --- Bantu languages. --- Body hair. --- Borneo. --- Brain size. --- Bronze Age. --- Burial. --- Cahokia. --- Chert. --- Common chimpanzee. --- Common descent. --- Defensive wall. --- Denisovan. --- Dentition. --- Domestication. --- Early Pleistocene. --- East Africa. --- Ebla. --- Epidemic. --- Etruscan civilization. --- Eurasian (mixed ancestry). --- Fertile Crescent. --- Himachal Pradesh. --- Holocene. --- Hominini. --- Homo erectus. --- Homo habilis. --- Homo sapiens. --- Homo. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Indo-European Languages. --- Indo-Iranian languages. --- Indonesia. --- Interglacial. --- Jebel Irhoud. --- Joseph Greenberg. --- Khoikhoi. --- Land. --- Language family. --- Late Pleistocene. --- Le Moustier. --- Legume. --- Lime plaster. --- Literature. --- Maharashtra. --- Maize. --- Material culture. --- Mating. --- Mesolithic. --- Metallurgy. --- Middle Pleistocene. --- Molecular clock. --- Monsoon. --- Neanderthal. --- Neolithic. --- New Guinea. --- Nile. --- Northern Australia. --- Oldowan. --- Paleoanthropology. --- Pastoralism. --- Permafrost. --- Philippines. --- Plate tectonics. --- Pleistocene. --- Pliocene. --- Polar regions of Earth. --- Polynesia. --- Polynesians. --- Population growth. --- Pottery. --- Pre-Pottery Neolithic. --- Prehistory. --- Saint. --- Sediment. --- Semi-arid climate. --- South Asia. --- Southeast Asia. --- Stone tool. --- Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Sulawesi. --- Sunflower seed. --- Supply (economics). --- Supraorbital ridge. --- Swanscombe. --- Technology. --- Upper Paleolithic. --- Vietnam. --- Western Europe. --- Younger Dryas.