Contents

• Introduction: The Paleolithic Settlement of Rain Forests / Julio Mercader
• Pt. I. African Pioneers
• Ch. 1. The Archaeology of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid -Holocene / Joanna Casey
• Ch. 2. The Middle Stone Age Occupation of Atlantic Central Africa: New Evidence from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon / Julio Mercader and Raquel Marti
• Ch. 3. Foragers of the Congo: The Early Settlement of the Ituri Forest / Julio Mercader
• Pt. II. Australasian Settlers
• Ch. 4. Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age / F. David Bulbeck
• Ch. 5. More Than a Million Years of Human Occupation in Insular Southeast Asia: The Early Archaeology of Eastern and Central Java / Francois Semah, Anne-Marie Semah and Truman Simanjuntak
• Ch. 6. An Archaeological Assessment of Rain Forest Occupation in Northeast Queensland, Australia / Brit Asmussen
• Pt. III. The Last Frontier: Newcomers in a New World
• Ch. 7. Late Glacial and Early Holocene Occupation of Central American Tropical Forests / Anthony J. Ranere and Richard G. Cooke
• Ch. 8. Holocene Climate and Human Occupation in the Orinoco / William P. Barse
• Ch. 9. Archaeological Hunter-Gatherers in Tropical Forests: A View from Colombia / Santiago Mora and Cristobal Gnecco
• Ch. 10. Hunter- Gatherers in Amazonia during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition / Betty J. Meggers and Eurico Th. Miller