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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2023

John J. Shea
John J. Shea
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State University of New York, Stony Brook
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The Unstoppable Human Species
The Emergence of Homo Sapiens in Prehistory
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Bushcraft

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Selected Websites

Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, offers small-enrollment skills and survival courses focused on montane and desert habitats (www.codylundin.com).Google Scholar
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Chapter 1. Introduction

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Chapter 2. Hard Evidence

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Chapter 3. Who Are These People?

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Chapter 4. How Did They Get Here?

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Chapter 5. Ancient Africans

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Chapter 6. Going East: Southern Asians

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Chapter 7. Down Under: Early Southeast Asians and Sahulians

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Chapter 8. Neanderthal Country

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Chapter 9. Going North: Early Eurasians

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Chapter 10. A Brave New World: Pleistocene Americans

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Chapter 11. Movable Feasts: Food Producers and Migrations

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Chapter 12. Distant Horizons and Stars Beckon: Oceanic Islands and Beyond

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Chapter 13. Unstoppable? Human Extinction

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  • Appendices
  • John J. Shea, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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