Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 1First Peoples: Populating the Planet

To 10,000 B.C.E.

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

Out of Africa to the Ends of the Earth:

First Migrations• Into Eurasia• Into Australia• Into the Americas• Into the Pacific

The Ways We Were• The First Human Societies• Economy and the Environment• The Realm of the Spirit• Settling Down: “The Great Transition”

Comparing Paleolithic Societies• The San of Southern Africa• The Chumash of Southern California

Chapter 1 First Peoples: Populating the Planet

To 10,000 B.C.E.

• Map 1.1 The Global Dispersion of Humankind (p. 14)• Map 1.2 Migration of Austronesian-Speaking People (p. 19)• Spot Map 1.1 The San of Southern Africa (p. 25)• Spot Map 1.2 The Chumash of Southern California (p. 29)• Paleolithic Art (p. 10)• The Lascaux Caves (p. 16)• Native Australians (p. 21)• The Willendorf Venus (p. 22)• Jomon Figurines (p. 24)• A Chumash Tomol (p. 30)