Out of Africa I

The African Background.- Early Pleistocene Mammals of Africa: Background to Dispersal.- Carnivoran Dispersal Out of Africa During the Early Pleistocene: Relevance for Hominins?.- Saharan Corridors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Geography of ‘Out of Africa I’.- Stone Age Visiting Cards Revisited: A Strategic Perspective on the Lithic Technology of Early Hominin Dispersal.- Eastern Asia.- Behavioral and Environmental Background to ‘Out-of-Africa I’ and the Arrival of Homo erectus in East Asia.- New Archeological Evidence for the Earliest Hominin Presence in China.- Geological Evidence for the Earliest Appearance of Hominins in Indonesia.- Divorcing Hominins from the Stegodon-Ailuropoda Fauna: New Views on the Antiquity of Hominins in Asia.- South Asia.- Early Pleistocene Mammalian Faunas of India and Evidence of Connections with Other Parts of the World.- The Indian Subcontinent and ‘Out of Africa I’.- The Early Paleolithic of the Indian Subcontinent: Hominin Colonization, Dispersals and Occupation History.- Europe and Western Asia.- Early Pleistocene Faunal Connections Between Africa and Eurasia: An Ecological Perspective.- Early Pleistocene Faunas of Eurasia and Hominin Dispersals.- Fossil Skulls from Dmanisi: A Paleodeme Representing Earliest Homo in Eurasia.- Summary, Synthesis and Future Directions.- “Out of Africa I”: Current Problems and Future Prospects.- Summary and Prospectus.