| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 581 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Modern Africa and overview of late Cenozoic paleoenvironments. Introduction : African paleoecology and human evolution / René Bobe and Sally C. Reynolds -- Approaches to the study of past environments / Peter Andrews, Sally C. Reynolds, and René Bobe -- Environmental and stratigraphic bias in the hominin fossil record : implications for theories of the climatic forcing of human evolution / Philip J. Hopley and Simon J. Maxwell -- Late Miocene and earliest Pliocene paleoecology of Africa : a synthesis / Jessamy H. Doman and Emily Goble Early -- The middle Pleistocene through the Holocene of Africa : a synthesis / J. Tyler Faith -- Southern Africa. The southern Africa sites : paleoenvironmental syntheses and future research prospects / Sally C. Reynolds -- Geology, fauna, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Makapansgat Limeworks Australopithecus africanus-bearing paleo-cave / Kaye E. Reed [and five others] -- Paleoenvironments and the context of Plio-Pleistocene hominins at Kromdraai, South Africa / Jean-Baptiste Fourvel and J. Francis Thackeray -- Using the faunal community to determine the local ecology for early hominins at Cooper's Cave at 1.5 Ma / Darryl de Ruiter -- The paleoenvironments of Sterkfontein : old questions, new approaches / Lauren C. Sewell, Job M. Kibii, and Sally C. Reynolds -- Swartkrans : a record of paleoenvironmental change in the cradle of humankind / Darryl de Ruiter -- Cornelia-Uitzoek : paleoecology, archeology and geochronology / James S. Brink [and eleven others] -- The paleoecology of the Australopithecus africanus type site at Taung, South Africa / Philip J. Hopley and Brian F. Kuhn -- Wonderwerk Cave, northern Cape Province : an early-middle Pleistocene paleoenvironmental sequence for the interior of South Africa / Liora Kolska Horwitz [and sixteen others] -- Eastern and central Africa. Hominid paleoenvironments in tropical Africa from the late Miocene to the early Pleistocene / René Bobe and Sally C. Reynolds -- Mammal paleoecology from the late early Pleistocene sites of the Dandiero Basin (Eritrea), with emphasis on the Suid record / Tsegai Medin [and six others] -- The 6-million-year record of ecological and environmental change at Gona, Afar Region, Ethiopia / Naomi E. Levin [and six others] -- The Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia : geology, fauna, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions / Christopher J. Campisano, John Rowan, and Kaye E. Reed -- Fossil vertebrates and paleoenvironments of the Pliocene Hadar Formation at Dikika, Ethiopia / René Bobe [and five others] -- Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphy and paleoecology of Galili, Ethiopia / Ottmar Kullmer [and ten others] -- Melka Kunture, Ethiopia : early Pleistocene faunas of the Ethiopian highlands / Denis Geraads [and four others] - Early Pleistocene fauna and paleoenvironments at Konso, Ethiopia / Gen Suwa [and four others] -- Paleontology and geology of the Mursi Formation / Michelle S.M. Drapeau [and five others] -- Mammalian diversity patterns and paleoecology in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia / Enquye W. Negash [and three others] -- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of early Quaternary faunal assemblages from the Nachukui Formation in Kenya : insights from the West Turkana Archeological Project / Jean-Philip Brugal and Hélène Roche -- Early hominins and paleoecology of the Koobi Fora Formation, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya / René Bobe [and three others] -- Early Pliocene faunal assemblages from the Tugen Hills, Kenya : a comparison of field collection methods and some implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Katie M. Binetti, Andrew Hill, and Joseph V. Ferraro -- The Southern Chemeron Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya : a review and a paleoecological analysis of the bovid fauna / Emily Goble Early -- Fauna and paleoenvironments of the Homa Peninsula, western Kenya / Laura C. Bishop [and eleven others] -- Mammalian fauna of the Olorgesailie Basin and Southern Kenya Rift / Richard Potts and J. Tyler Faith -- Context and environments of the lower Pleistocene hominins of Peninj, Tanzania / Denis Geraads, Ignacio de la Torre, and Christiane Denys -- Paleoecology and vertebrate taphonomy of DK Site (bed I), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania / Paul Farrugia and Jackson K. Njau -- Lower bed II Olduvai Basin, Tanzania : wetland sedge taphonomy, seasonal pasture, and implications for hominin scavenging / Charles R. Peters, Marion K. Bamford, and John P. Shields -- Paleoecology of Laetoli, Tanzania / Terry Harrison, Amandus Kwekason, and Denise F. Su -- The paleoenvironment of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo beds of Northern Malawi / Ottmar Kullmer [and four others] -- Northern Africa. The northern African sites : paleoenvironmental syntheses / Denis Geraads -- Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco : the richest fossil site in North Africa at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary / Denis Geraads, David Lefèvre, and Jean-Paul Raynal -- Tighennif (Ternifine), Algeria : environments of the earliest human fossils of North Africa in the late early Pleistocene / Denis Geraads -- Early Homo on the Atlantic shore : the Thomas I and Oulad Hamida 1 quarries, Morocco / Denis Geraads [and five others] |
| Summary |
"Early hominins were not limited to particular sites or localities in a paleontological or archeological sense but lived and died in complex and dynamic landscapes and ecosystems of which we have partial, incomplete records. The fossil evidence of early hominin paleoenvironments is always limited, sometimes providing brief snapshots of small areas, other times affording very coarse chronological and spatial resolution over large distances. Taphonomic conditions typically vary within any one locality over time, and from one locality to another. And yet, it is these partial and biased records that we use to build an understanding of the forces that have shaped our evolution"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Cambridge Core, viewed September 1, 2022) |
| Subject |
Evolutionary paleoecology.
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Human evolution -- Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical.
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Evolutionary paleoecology
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Human evolution
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reynolds, Sally C., editor
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Bobe, René, 1960- editor
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| LC no. |
2021050166 |
| ISBN |
9781139696470 |
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1139696475 |
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1107074037 |
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9781107074033 |
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