Beachcombing and Coastal Settlement: The Long Migration from South Africa to Patagonia — The Greatest Journey Ever Made

Wood, Barry

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“…This literature has concentrated on the timing and route of dispersals from individual starting points, the genetic composition of the populations, and their correlation with ecological conditions and languages. Wood (2019) traces a narrative of the migration routes from South Africa to Patagonia, focusing on coastal migration routes.…”

Section: The Global Diaspora and Population Growthmentioning

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Lloyd

2020

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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This paper reviews the history of human economic activity from the time Homo sapiens appeared to the present. The first aim is to provide a coherent narrative of the economic history of this period. The second aim is to quantify economic activities where time series data is available and to use economic theory to explain the trends and turning points. It examines the history of three central time series – the aggregate human population, output per capita and human‐induced species extinctions. It concludes with some brief observations on the contribution of Big Economic History to Big Human History.

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Section: The Global Diaspora and Population Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lloyd

2020

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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“…A growing list of sites and artifacts has shown us that the primary migration route out of Africa was across the Gate of Grief at the south end of the Red Sea to the southern coast of Arabia (Armitage 2011)now called the Southern Route. In fact, an extensive sequence of artifacts, human remains, and relict settlements along oceanic margins indicates that the primary route that peopled the world was coastal-following the shorelines of South Asia, then beachcombing around the entire Pacific Ocean from Philippines to Patagonia (Wood 2019b). Genetic markers coastal migrants into India, or what Reich et al (2009) call Ancestral South Indians, provided one of the two major gene pools of India today.…”

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“…From the various parts of his body, too, the gods are born-the supreme deities, Indra and Agni, from his mouth-a remarkable detail that suggests that the gods themselves come from the mind and words of man himself. The symbolism of this hymn and its connection to other Hindu writings deserves the attention of anyone seeking to understand the roots of Indian culture (Wood 2017). The overall structure of this narrative says that the multiple heads and limbs of the Cosmic Man are in fact the heads and limbs of all humankind, 7+ billion heads and double that number of arms and legs, though they cohere as a spiritual unity originating in the creative event itself and evident in the history of Indian society for the past thirty centuries.…”

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“…Amid this tragedy, however, the underlying unity of life remains, and there are many paths to that realization. Our understanding of Hindu culture is too small; seen in its entirely, it is a final episode in an epic journey "from atoms to atman," a grand narrative tracing out the emergence of infinite spirit (Wood 2017). The multiple paths confirm that all of human life-every path, every practice, every task, every human endeavor-is central to the task of finding one's way within the vast panorama of the universe even as this journey may occur amidst the tragedy of conflict and war.…”

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“…Hutton's conclu-sion was that this cycle went on "without end"; he could not define a beginning. Hutton was the first to recognize what we call "deep time" (Wood 2019a). To this, the eminent geologist, Charles Lyell (1830-1832), added regional specificity.…”

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