Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Paleolithic Settlement of Rain Forests - Julio Mercader
PART I - African Pioneers
The Archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene - Joanna Casey
The Middle Stone Age Occupation of Atlantic Central Africa: New Evidence from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon - Julio Mercader and Raquel Martí
Foragers of the Congo: The Early Settlement of the Ituri Forest - Julio Mercader
PART II - Australasian Settlers
Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age - F. David Bulbeck
More Than a Million Years of Human Occupation in Insular Southeast Asia: The Early Archaeology of Eastern and Central Java - François Sémah, Anne-Marie Sémah, and Truman Simanjuntak
An Archaeological Assessment of Rain Forest Occupation in Northeast Queensland, Australia - Brit Asmussen
PART III - The Last Frontier: Newcomers in a New World
Late Glacial and Early Holocene Occupation of Central American Tropical Forests - Anthony J. Ranere and Richard G. Cooke
Holocene Climate and Human Occupation in the Orinoco - William P. Barse
Archaeological Hunter-Gatherers in Tropical Forests: A View from Colombia - Santiago Mora and Cristóbal Gnecco
Hunter-Gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition - Betty J. Meggers and Eurico Th. Miller
Contributors
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