Title The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers / Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 601 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cambridge world archaeology Cambridge world archaeology. 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 Summary This is a synthesis of the known 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-585) and index Notes Print version record Subject Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Africa Prehistoric peoples -- Africa Tools, Prehistoric -- Africa Hunting and gathering societies -- Africa Black People -- history Archaeology -- methods Diet -- history Hominidae -- anatomy & histology Humans -- anatomy & histology HISTORY -- General. Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Hunting and gathering societies Prehistoric peoples Tools, Prehistoric Siedlung Archäologie Frühmensch SUBJECT Africa -- Antiquities Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 Africa Subject Africa Afrika Form Electronic book Author Mitchell, Peter, 1962- ISBN 9780511457340 0511457340 9780521847964 0521847966 9780521612654 0521612659 9780511455315 0511455313 9780511817830 0511817835

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