Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence

Made in Australia: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes the largest collection of Australian fossils, representing modern humans at the end of their 20,000 km journey from Africa, and also documenting this great find before they are reburied on the request of the Aboriginal community. Part One provides an overview of modern humans, and how we see the construct of human evolution over the last two and half million years. Parts Two and Three focus on Australia and the evidence of its earliest people from the late Pleistocene and the Willandra Lake Collection from a photographic and descriptive perspective.

Provides perspective for dispersal, from origins to the final stages of modern human migrationPresents full coverage of the Willandra Lakes skeletal collectionIncludes genomic findings along the migration path

PART 1 THE LONGEST WALK 1. A View from Kakadu 2. Ancestors of the Ancestors 3. Leaving Africa 4. AE3: On the Road Again

PART 2 PEOPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD 5. History and Geography of the Willandra Lakes Collection 6. Osteological Features of WLH 1, 2 and 3 7. One of a Kind: WLH 50 8. Impenetrable Obscurity

PART 3 THE WILLANDRA LAKE COLLECTION: A RECORD 9. A Descriptive Overview of the First Australians 10. Photographic and Descriptive Catalogue of the WLC

Postscript: The Legacy of Modern Humans