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

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 int...

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Beteiligte Personen: Barham, Lawrence (VerfasserIn), Mitchell, Peter 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge world archaeology
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:XVII, 601 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9780521847964
9780521612654