{"product_id":"first-migrants-ancient-migration-in-global-perspective-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9781394202416","title":"First Migrants; Ancient Migration in Global Perspective, Revised edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9781394202416","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFirst Migrants\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAncient Migration in Global Perspective, Revised edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Bellwood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781394202416, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Our Restless Ancestors Shaped the Interconnected World We Live in Today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how human and hominin migrations over the past five million years shaped the world we inhabit today. Peter Bellwood synthesises insights from archaeology, palaeoanthropology, genetics, and linguistics to trace humanity’s earliest movements — from the first African expansions to the global spread of agriculture. The book reveals how migration redistributed the results of biological and cultural evolution, transforming societies and environments in every corner of the globe. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together decades of scholarship, Bellwood challenges simplistic narratives of ancient migration as random events without cause or consequence, instead positioning it as a powerful mechanism the behind the formation and spread of new patterns in human biology and culture. Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, he shows how the permanent movements of populations created enduring patterns of genetic, linguistic, and cultural diversity that continue to define us. Covering the migrations of early hominins, \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e dispersals across continents, and the global diffusion of agriculture, the book provides a richly interdisciplinary account of humanity’s shared past, drawing clear connections between environmental change, demographic expansion, and the human impulse to explore. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeepening our understanding of migration as one of the most enduring forces in human history, \u003ci\u003eFirst Migrants Revisited:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eReinterprets migration as a dynamic process of redistribution of human biology, culture, and language  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the enduring consequences of prehistoric migration for contemporary human societies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides new insights into the large-scale population movements that shaped the genetic, cultural, and linguistic diversity that still characterizes humanity today\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures accessible summaries of the latest findings on early \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e dispersals and the global spread of agriculture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes comparative discussions of different hominin species and their adaptive strategies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective \u003c\/i\u003eis ideally suited for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in archaeology, anthropology, human evolution, and historical linguistics, as well as for modules in global history, evolutionary biology, and population genetics within BA, BSc, and MA degree programmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTable xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Dating Terminology xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Prehistoric Human Migration and Why It Mattered 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration as a Cyclical Phenomenon – Punctuations and Quiescence 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Ancient Migration 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration Versus Conquest and “Elite Dominance” as Vectors of Human Dispersal 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePotential Reasons for Ancient Migration 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearching Ancient Migration at the Level of the Biological Population 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Families and Historical Linguistics 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen and How Did Language Families Originate and Spread? 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultures in Archaeology – Did They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations? 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Triangulating Opinions from Different Disciplines 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Migrations in History and Anthropology – A Consideration of Outcomes 24\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSettling Uninhabited New Lands – Medieval Iceland, and the Bounty Survivors on Pitcairn Island 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAncient China: Imperial Conquest with Mass Settlement of Previously Inhabited Territory 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Anglo- Saxons in England: Success in Migration Where the Romans Failed 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nuer and Dinka of Sudan: Demic Diffusion Between Neighbors Fueled by Imbalances in Raiding Group Size and Bride Price Demands 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Iban of Sarawak and the Yanomami of Venezuela: Population Growth in Tribal Circumstances and a Constant Need for New Land 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Britain: Imperial Conquest and Major Cultural Change, but No Mass Settler Immigration 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndic- influenced Southeast Asia: Religious and Cultural Influence, but No Mass Settler Immigration 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Helvetii: A Failed Attempt at a Planned Migration 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relevance of Historical and Ethnographic Migrations for Understanding Prehistoric Situations 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Migrating Hominins, Until the Emergence of Homo Sapiens 42\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Did Species Originate and Migrate? 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Hominins 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Issue of Inter- Species Hybridization 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Hominins and Migration in Africa 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut of Africa, But How Often? 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Were the First Hominin Migrants beyond Africa? 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlores, Luzon, and Crossing the Sea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLarge Brained Hominins of the Middle Pleistocene – Out of Africa Again? 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeanderthals and Denisovans 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStone Tools and Hominin Species – Did They Correlate? 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking Stock 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Early Homo sapiens in Africa and Eurasia 74\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere and When Did Homo sapiens Originate? 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Was, and Still Is, Homo sapiens? 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBehavioral Modernity 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEurasia and Africa in Comparative Perspective 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Expansion of Modern Humans Across Africa 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut of Africa – When? 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Environments Behind Homo sapiens Migration into Eurasia 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAncient Genetic Perspectives on Upper Paleolithic Eurasians 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crossings of Asia 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fates of the Neanderthals and Denisovans 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Early Homo sapiens Offshore: Island Southeast Asia, Australia, New Guinea, Japan, and The Americas 101\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Southern Route to the East 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomo sapiens Arrives in Sahul, But When? 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Did People Reach Australia and New Guinea? 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Many Settlers? 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeading North and Offshore Again – Japan 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Americas 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting to and Through Beringia 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Genetic Sources of the First Americans 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaleo- Inuit and Thule Inuit Migrations 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Apache and the Navajo of the US Southwest 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Last Hunter- Gatherers, First Farmers, and the Warming of the Earth 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoodbye to the Last Glacial Maximum, Welcome to the Holocene 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Production, the First Farmers, and Their Fecund Offspring 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, But Not Others? 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop? 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Production and Population Expansion 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Ancient Farming Migrations in Western Eurasia and Northern Africa 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgricultural Beginnings in the Fertile Crescent 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigrations Out of the Fertile Crescent 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeolithic Expansion from Anatolia into Southeastern Europe 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeolithic Migration Through Europe, Beyond Greece and the Balkans 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Eurasian Steppes, Central Asia, and Towards the Indian Subcontinent 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus River 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food- Producing Economy into North Africa 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenomic Perspectives on the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenomic Expansions Out of the Fertile Crescent 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Indo- European Language Family – Origins and Dispersals 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeninsular India and the Dravidian Language Family 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNorthern Africa and the Afro- Asiatic Language Family 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Ancient Farming Migrations in Eastern Asia and Oceania 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEastern Asian Topography and Its Effect on Human Migration 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgricultural Beginnings in East Asia 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Were the First Farmers of East Asia? 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne Beginning, or Two, or More? 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeolithic Migrations from the Central and Northern Chinese Riverine Plains 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSino- Tibetan and Transeurasian Migrations from the Liao and Yellow Rivers 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouthern China and Mainland Southeast Asia 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Key Archaeological Sequence from Northern Vietnam 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Austroasiatic and Kra- Dai (Tai- Kadai, or Daic) Language Families 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsland Southeast Asia and Oceania, and the Role of the New Guinea Highlands 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchaeological and Genetic Migrations Through Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Oceania 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Colonization of Oceania Beyond New Guinea and the Solomons 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHolocene Australia and Its Migration Puzzles 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Ancient Farming Migrations in Sub- Saharan Africa and the Americas 232\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica Before Food Production 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica with Food Production 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSub- Saharan Crop Domestication 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bantu Expansion 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependent Cultural Developments and Migrations in the Americas 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Food Production in the Americas, Especially Maize 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Production and Migration in the Americas 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Farmers in Ecuador and Peru 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Farmers in Amazonia 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Caribbean Islands 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMesoamerica and the US Southwest 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Eastern Woodlands of North America 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 What Happened in (Pre)History(?) 262\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Hominin Prehistory and Migratory Punctuation – A Review 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Further Questions 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 310\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20%5BHD%5D%22\"\u003eHD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460654854424,"sku":"9781394202416","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781394202416.jpg?v=1785456945","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/first-migrants-ancient-migration-in-global-perspective-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9781394202416","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}