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Title Modern origins : a North African perspective / edited by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Shannon P. McPherron
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
Series Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology, 1877-9077
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
Contents pt. 1. Paleoenvironment and Chronology -- A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea / A. Moreno -- A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental Variability in North Africa and its Implications for Modern Human Origins / J.C. Larrasoaña -- Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North Africa / J.R. Smith -- The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa / D. Geraads -- New Data from the Site of Ifri n'Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb / D. Richter, J. Moser and M. Nami -- Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan Aterian / J.-P. Raynal and S. Occhietti
pt. 2. Archaeology -- The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco / A. Bouzouggar and R.N.E. Barton -- Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: The State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental Context / T.E. Steele -- Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex / E.A.A. Garcea -- Middle Stone Age in Tunisia: Present Status of Knowledge and Recent Advances / N. Aouadi-Abdeljaouad and L. Belhouchet -- The Aterian of the Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Adaptation to Changing Climatic Conditions? / A.L. Hawkins
pt. 3. The Fossil Hominins -- Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis / K. Harvati and J.-J. Hublin -- Dental Evidence from the Aterian Human Populations of Morocco / J.-J. Hublin, C. Verna, S. Bailey, T. Smith and A. Olejniczak, et al. -- The Upper Paleolithic Human Remains of Nazlet Khater 2 (Egypt) and Past Modern Human Diversity / I. Crevecoeur -- Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin of Modern Humans / G. Bräuer
Summary Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search. In this volume, we bring together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa. The result is a volume that better integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate and at the same time highlights the research questions that are currently the focus of continued work in the area
Analysis Social sciences
Evolution (Biology)
Anthropology
Archaeology
Migration
Human Geography
Evolutionary Biology
archeologie
antropologie
migratie
sociale wetenschappen
geografie
geography
evolutie
evolution
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human beings -- Africa, North -- Origin
Human evolution -- Africa, North
Human beings.
Humans
Homo sapiens (species)
NATURE -- Fossils.
Human beings -- Origin
Human evolution
SUBJECT Africa, North. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001631
Africa, Northern
Subject North Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Hublin, Jean-Jacques.
McPherron, Shannon P.
ISBN 9789400729292
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9400729286
9789400729285