The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers

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Title:

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:

"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:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007035552-t.html
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Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book is a synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers, combining the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeo-environmental science. African evidence is critical to important debates, such as the origins of stone tool making, the emergence of recognisably modern forms of cognition and behaviour, and the expansion of successive hominins from Africa to other parts of the world.