Stephen G. Webb

This book offers comprehensive coverage and preparation for module T1 and provides: an exam-style practice paper, a clear match to each syllabus topic, straightforward explanations of the key ideas for each topic, comprehensive exercises to develop and reinforce concepts and techniques, detailed worked examples, examination practice questions, and review exercises.

Precontact Aboriginal health, disease, physiology and adaptation; based on data from skeletal collections; stress indicators - cribra orbitalia, dental hypoplasia and Harris lines; secondary stress indicators - non specific and treponemal, infection, osteoarthritis and trauma; nutritional, metabolic and/or physiological disorders; anaemia; behavioural and cultural factors; bone infection; palaeopathology.

The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia, in the Pleistocene era. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at the time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna, using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians.

1 volume ; 20 cm