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"This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity's past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics, and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific"--Mike T. Carson, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam.

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Terre de France raconte l'histoire du territoire national sous la forme d'un parcours initiatique à travers ses paysages les plus spectaculaires. Ce voyage dans le temps débute il y a 500 millions d'années en Bretagne, rend visite aux dinosaures du Jurassique en Bourgogne et du Crétacé en Provence, passe par le soulèvement des Alpes, la construction des volcans d'Auvergne et l'assèchement de la Méditerranée, et se termine par l'arrivée d'Homo sapiens sur le littoral français. Tout au long du parcours, on note les indices de ces aventures passées dans nos paysages actuels: ici, parmi les ceps de vigne, les éclats d'argile sont des coquilles d'œufs de dinosaures ; ailleurs, les pierres multicolores qui ornent les murs d'un château sont des blocs éjectés par un impact d'astéroïde. Dans chaque chapitre, une carte de France de l'époque évoquée, aux rivages et aux reliefs insolites ; une vue d'artiste des événements et animaux préhistoriques ; des encadrés sur les monuments à visiter, et des itinéraires - à pied ou en voiture - pour explorer les sites les plus marquants de la région.

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I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors' introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on 2big questions3 of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship.

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