Meet the editors

Dr. Rintaro Ono is an Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. His research is focused on Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology, and specifically: human maritime adaptation process, human migration into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, human maritime exploitation history, and maritime trade history. He has been involved in many research projects in Japan (mainly Okinawa), Indonesia, the Phil-

ippines, Micronesia, and Melanesia. He has been a visiting researcher and research collaborator at several national and international laboratories and universities. He is the author of more than 50 academic papers, two books, and editor of several books including Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions. (ANU E Press, 2013).

Dr. Alfred Pawlik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University and he heads the Anthropological and Sociological Initiatives at the Ateneo (ASIA). His research focuses on the archaeology of Southeast Asia and Europe, the anthropology of hunter-gatherers, and past human behavior. His interests include prehistoric technologies and use-wear analysis. He obtained a doctoral

degree in Prehistory from the Faculty of Geosciences, the University of Tübingen in 1995 and has held academic positions at the Universities of Tübingen and Innsbruck, and the University of the Philippines. He has published numerous articles in international journals and is the author of two books and co-editor of four volumes, including Functional Studies of Prehistoric Artefacts and their Socio-economic Meaning (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102467).

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

and Adaptation

*and Fabrizio Lirer*

*by Parth R. Chauhan*

Primates Revisited

**Section 3**

of the South Asian Paleolithic

*by Halmi Insani and Masanaru Takai*

*by Rintaro Ono, Alfred Pawlik and Riczar Fuentes*

Modern Humans in Wallacea

*by Rintaro Ono and Alfred Pawlik*

Pleistocene Climate Change in Central Europe

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

and South Asia **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 35**

Pleistocene Human Migration and Adaptation in Southeast Asia **61**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 85**

Introductory Chapter: Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology,

Pleistocene Environment Change and Human Evolution in Europe

*by Adriano Banak, Oleg Mandic, Davor Pavelić, Marijan Kovačić* 

Human Evolution in the Center of the Old World: An Updated Review

Mainland versus Island Adaptation: Paleobiogeography of Sunda Shelf

Island Migration, Resource Use, and Lithic Technology by Anatomically
