Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Robust chronologies for the extinction of Homo erectus, the arrival of modern humans (Homo sapiens), and the dispersal of Neolithic peoples throught Southeast Asia and Oceania are needed to assess general models of human evolution and dispersal worldwide. At present, the lack of adequate age controls has crated a deadlock between proponents of the "multiregional" hypothesis of modern evolution, who argue that modern humans arose by evolutionary changes in earlier hominid populations in many parts of the Old Word, and advocates of the "out of Africa" hypothesis, who hold the view that modern humans first appeared in Africa less than 200,000 years ago and then dispersed acress the world, eclipsing all earlier hominid populations.
Publication Details
Roberts, R., Morwood, M. J. & Westaway, K. E. (2005). Illuminating southeast Asian prehistory: new archaeological and paleoanthropological frontiers for luminescence dating. Asian Perspectives, 44 293-319.