The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers
by
Barham, Lawrence.
Title
:
The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers
Author
:
Barham, Lawrence.
ISBN
:
9780521847964
9780521612654
Personal Author
:
Barham, Lawrence.
Publication Information
:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
:
xvii, 601 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series
:
Cambridge world archaeology
Series Title
:
Cambridge world archaeology
General Note
:
Formerly CIP.
Contents
:
Introducing the African record -- Frameworks in space and time -- First tool-users and -makers -- Early Pleistocene technologies and societies -- Mid-Pleistocene foragers -- Transitions and origins -- The big dry : the archaeology of marine isotope stages 4-2 -- Transitions : from the Pleistocene into the Holocene -- Hunting, gathering, intensifying : the Mid-Holocene record -- Foragers in a world of farmers -- The future of the first Africans' past.
Abstract
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"Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent on earth. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers. It combines the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeoenvironmental science."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Term
:
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Africa.
Prehistoric peoples -- Africa.
Tools, Prehistoric -- Africa.
Hunting and gathering societies -- Africa.
Geographic Term
:
Africa -- Antiquities.
Added Author
:
Mitchell, Peter, 1962-
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025409018 | 960.1 B251F 2008 | 1 |