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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01829-7 - Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary Ryan J. Rabett Index More information Index Abdur, 88 Arborophilia sp., 219 Abri Pataud, 76 Arctictis binturong, 218, 229, 230, 231, 263 Accipiter trivirgatus,cf.,219 Arctogalidia trivirgata, 229 Acclimatization, 2, 7, 268, 271 Arctonyx collaris, 241 Acculturation, 70, 279, 288 Arcy-sur-Cure, 75 Acheulean, 26, 27, 28, 29, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52, 58, 88 Arius sp., 219 Acheulo-Yabrudian, 48 Asian leaf turtle. See Cyclemys dentata Adaptation Asian soft-shell turtle. See Amyda cartilaginea high frequency processes, 286 Asian wild dog. See Cuon alipinus hominin adaptive trajectories, 7, 267, 268 Assamese macaque. See Macaca assamensis low frequency processes, 286–287 Athapaskan, 278 tropical foragers (Southeast Asia), 283 Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC), 23–24 Variability selection hypothesis, 285–286 Attirampakkam, 106 Additive strategies Aurignacian, 69, 71, 72, 73, 76, 78, 102, 103, 268, 272 economic, 274, 280. See Strategy-switching Developed-, 280 (economic) Proto-, 70, 78 technological, 165, 206, 283, 289 Australo-Melanesian population, 109, 116 Agassi, Lake, 285 Australopithecines (robust), 286 Ahmarian, 80 Azilian, 74 Ailuropoda melanoleuca fovealis, 35 Airstrip Mound site, 136 Bacsonian, 188, 192, 194 Altai Mountains, 50, 51, 94, 103 Balobok rock-shelter, 159 Altamira, 73 Ban Don Mun, 54 Amyda cartilaginea, 218, 230 Ban Lum Khao, 164, 165 Amyda sp., 37 Ban Mae Tha, 54 Anderson, D.D., 111, 201 Ban Rai, 203 Anorrhinus galeritus, 219 Banteng. See Bos cf. javanicus Anthracoceros coronatus, 219 Banyan Valley Cave, 201 Anthracoceros malayanus, 219 Barranco Leon,´ 29 Anthropocene, 8, 9, 274, 286, 289 BAT 1, 173, 174 Aq Kupruk, 104, 105 BAT 2, 173 Arboreal-adapted taxa, 96, 110, 111, 113, 122, 151, 152, Bat hawk. See Macheiramphus alcinus 155, 167, 209, 217, 219, 220, 227, 228, 230, 231, Batadomba-lena, 107, 108 240, 246, 250, 257, 258, 261, 262, 263, 265, 282 Batek, 274 361 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01829-7 - Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary Ryan J. Rabett Index More information Index Batu Gajah, finds from near, 55 Carcass transportation. See Procurement Bau Du, 248 Carmel, Mt. See Wadi-el-Mughara (‘Valley of Caves’) and Bay cat. See Felis badia Wadi Kebara Bear cat. See Arctictis binturong Ceramic technology Bearded pig 282. See Sus barbatus ceramic material sourcing, 276 Beli lena kitulgala, 107 ceramic stratigraphic horizons, 128, 151, 181 Bellan-bandi Palassa, 107 pottery sherds, 127, 173, 180, 181, 192, 198, 201, 202, Bellwood, P.S., 5, 122, 173, 174, 181 246, 249, 250, 251 Bennett’s Wallaby. See Macropus rufogiseus pre-ceramic stratigraphic horizons, 154, 160, 163, 166, Bent-winged bat. See Miniopterus sp. 167, 175, 179, 180, 181, 198, 208 Black eagle. See Ictinaetus malayensis,cf. Cercopithecidae, 111, 121, 156, 157, 162, 167, 217, 219, Black hornbill. See Anthracoceros malayanus 221, 227, 228, 240, 246, 263 Black pond/marsh turtle. See Siebenrockiella crassocollis Cervus unicolor, 113, 114, 217, 220, 240, 245, 254, 256, 260 Blombos Cave, 82, 83 Chatelperronian,ˆ 70, 75, 279, 280 Bobongara, 133, 136 Chauvet, Grotte, 73, 74, 75 Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka, 29 Chenjiawo, 34–35, 36 Bolac, Lake, 131 Chinese three-striped box turtle. See Cuora cf. trifasciata Bond cycles, 22, 24 Chirki-on-Pravara, 52 Bond events, 24 Chongokni, 59 Bone technology. See Organic technology CLIMAP programme, 108 Bornean gibbon. See Hylobates cf. muelleri Climate Bos cf, javanicus, 217, 220 climatic amelioration, 97, 267 Bose Basin, 39, 45, 59 climatic fluctuations, 3, 12, 60, 66, 88, 249, 286, 287 Boxgrove, 49 climatic instability, 6, 8, 62, 66, 87, 98, 140, 272, 282, Brahminy kite. See Haliaster indus 284, 288 Breuil, H., 1, 88 flickering switch, 20, 289 Bubing Basin, 35, 45 rapid climate change, 6, 18–24, 73, 284, 289 Buceros cf, rhinoceros, 219 Clouded leopard. See Neofelis diardi Buffy fish owl. See Ketupa cf. ketupa Clovis, 134, 270 Bui Ceri Uato, 168, 170 Coastal lagoons. See Ecological communities Bukit Bunuh, 59, 101, 112, 113, 199 Colani, M., 185, 186, 187, 190, 199 Bukit Jawa, 55, 62, 63, 197 Colonization. See Transference, Diversification, Burial, secondary, 194 Innovation Divergence and Creolization Burials ‘abortive’ colonization of the Levant, 92–93, 97 flexed, 194, 196 acquired knowledge, 270 Neolithic, 195 immigrant inviability, 269 secondary, 107, 173, 180, 194 in-situ resource utilizsation, 269 Bushy crested hornbill. See Anorrhinus galeritus island colonization (tsunami), 126–127 Butchery, 258–259, 282 landscape-learning, 270 chaineˆ operatoire, 228, 230 Later Upper Pleistocene Model, 68 cut-marks, 28, 30, 212, 216, 217, 223, 227, 228, 229, maladaptation during, 269, 271, 279, 280 231, 240, 245, 246, 252, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263 mega-patches, 270 Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, 47 Multiple dispersal hypothesis, 104 Gua Sagu and Gua Tenggek, 254, 261 Northern Route out of Africa, 101 Hang Boi, 248 Overkill hypothesis 137. See Extinction impact scars, 216, 223 pioneer populations, 269, 278 Liang Bua, 125 population contraction, 99, 271, 272 marrow extraction, 28, 30, 216, 223, 242 population replacement, 48, 99, 267 Niah Caves, 157, 205, 212, 216, 218, 220, 227, 228, Population-dispersal hypothesis, 68, 80 229–230, 231, 262, 263 re-colonization, 45, 66, 204, 268, 285 scrape-marks, 30, 218 risk-reduction. See Risk stiff-joint butchery, 227 seasonal forays, 278 Buwawansi, 181 Southern Route hypothesis, 6, 85, 102, 139 trans-location, 271 Callao Cave, 115, 116, 140 transported knowledge, 270 Cambrian Explosion, 8 Wave of advance model, 106, 268 Canis Common palm civet. See Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Canis cyonoides, 63 Complexity (behavioural), 2, 47, 84, 108, 272, 280 Canis lupus, 63 Con Moong cave, 162, 188 Canis lupus variabilis, 63 Cosquer, La Grotte, 73 Canis yuanmouensis, 37, 63 Cowtail stingray. See Pastinachus sephen 362 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01829-7 - Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary Ryan J. Rabett Index More information Index Creolization, 278–279 Divergence (genetic), 26, 49, 51, 102, 126 cultural ‘hybridization’ as alternative for, 279 Diversification, 139, 206, 269, 272–274, 280, 290 Crested goshawk. See Accipiter trivirgatus,cf. Dmanisi, 5, 29–31, 140 Crocodylia Dogania subplana, 218, 254, 261 Crocodylus cf, porosus, 230 Douara Cave, 80 Crocodylus ossifragus, 64 Dubois, M.E.F.T., 4, 40, 63 Crocodylus sp., 64 Dune, 16R, 93 Garialis bengawanicus, 64 Duryong Cave, 175 Cuddie Springs site, 134, 136 Dzudzuana Cave, 80 Cultural drift, 84 Cuon alipinus, 35 Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP), 50, 69 Cuon antiquus, 63 East Indian box turtle. See Cuora ambionensis Cuon sp., 64 Ecological communities Cuora (=Pyxidea) mouhotii, 245 coastal lagoons, 22, 130, 246, 250, 282 Cuora ambionensis, 261 faunal turn-over events, 41, 62–64, 65 Cuora cf, trifasciata, 245 Kedung Brubus fauna, 64 Cyber-somatic devices, 287 megafauna, 77, 136, 137, 282 Cyclemys dentata, 218, 245, 254, 257 Ngandong fauna, 54, 57, 58, 62, 64, 285 Cyclemys oldhami, 242, 245 novel faunal associations, 98, 272 Cynailulus (=Acinonyx jubatus) sp., 63 Punung fauna, 62, 96, 285 Cynailulus (=Acinonyx), 37, 63 salt marsh, 246, 249, 250, 282 Cyprinidae sp., 219 species diversity, 14, 61, 76, 78, 98, 273, 289 species’ response to climate change, 98 Da But, 162, 190, 246, 249, 250 Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna, 35, 54 Da Phuc, 163 Trinil H.K, fauna, 63, 64 Dabutian, 190 Villafranchian fauna, 29, 62 Daeo village caves, 181 Eemian interglacial Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles, 20–21 concordance with MIS-5e, 85 Dark-throated leaf turtle. See Cyclemys oldhami Late Eemian Aridity Pulse (LEAP), 86 Darra-i Kur, 104, 105, 107 El Nino˜ Southern Oscillation (ENSO), 273, 281, 286 Dasyatidae spp., 246 Elaphas Dating methods Elaphas antiquus, 55 Amino Acid Racemization (AAR), 234, 249 Elaphas maximus, 55 Argon/Argon, 100 Elaphas namidicus, 55 Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), 39, 52, 62, 91, 92 Elaphas sp., 34, 35 ESR/U-Series, 58, 81, 82, 91, 123, 124 Emiran, 80 Fairbanks_0107 calibration curve, 10 Epigravettian, 78 Fission-track dating, 40 Equus yunnanensis, 35, 37 Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), 55, 81, 88, Estuarine crocodile. See Crocodylia - Crocodylus cf. porosus 100, 101, 122, 138 Eugeissona utilis (hill sago palm), 275 Palaeomagnetism, 26, 29, 42, 46, 50, 51 Evolved Pavlovian (Eastern Gravettian), 76 Radiocarbon dating 9, 10, 16, 107, 110, 114, 115, 117, Exchange. See Procurement 118, 120, 122, 124, 127, 129, 130, 143, 146, 158, Extinction, 33, 36, 38, 51, 100, 124, 137, 267, 269, 284, 163, 187, 211, 220, 233, 234, 268, 270.See 285, 290 Appendix Eyre, Lake basin, 131 Thermoluminescence (TL), 45, 50 Dawadmi,¯ 27 Fa Hien-lena 107, 108. See Hominin fossils Decapoda, freshwater Facteur, Le, 76 Potamidae, 238 Fauna, vertebrate.Seeindividual taxa Varunidae, 238 Fay-Ne 1 at Jebel Faya, 88, 93 Villopotamon sp., 238, 239 Felis badia, 217 Deglaciation, 8, 120, 146, 148, 151, 153, 205 Felis cf, planiceps, 229 Melt-water pulse-IA (mwp-IA), 143 Ferrassie, La, 76 Denisova Cave, 50, 51, 61, 62, 66, 94 Flat-headed cat. See Felis cf. planiceps Dennell, R., 5 Foote, R.B., 4 Developed Oldowan, 28, 30, 60 Franchthi Cave, 78, 79 Devil’s Lair, the (Western Australia), 133 Fruit bat. See Rousettus sp. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, 217 Fuente Nueva 1, 29 Dina, 51 Fumane Cave, 74 Divergence (adaptive), 2, 133, 134, 269, 278–281 Divergence (climatic), 20 Gallus cf, gallus, 219 363 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01829-7 - Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary Ryan J.
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