Hominid dispersals and Asian biogeography during the Lower and early Middle Pleistocene, c. 2.0-0.5 mya. From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Dennell, Robin W. | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN RECENT YEARS, MUCH INTEREST HAS BEEN AROUSED, both publicly and academically, by the possibility that hominids may have occupied large parts of Asia by a little under two million years ago, rather than the substantially later date of around one million years ago, as was previously and commonly believed. The doubling of the antiquity of hominids in Asia has been brought about by a handful of new discoveries and the re-dating of older ones. New discoveries include the superb homin...