M. D. Leakey

Olduvai Gorge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The formations discussed in this volume, Beds I and II, were deposited in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene and have yielded large quantities of the remains of early man, in the form of bones and stone tools and evidence of the environment in which they lived.

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Produktdetails

• Olduvai Gorge 5 Volume Paperback Set
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9780521105187
• ISBN-10: 0521105188
• Artikelnr.: 26572671

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of plates
Introductory note
Foreword Professor J. D. Clark
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Geologic background of Beds I and II: Stratigraphic summary Professor R. L. Hay
Part I: 1. Lower bed I. Site DK and site FLK NN: Level 4
2. Middle bed I. Site FLK NN: Levels 1-3. Site FLK: the 'zinjanthropus' level and the upper levels
3. Upper bed I and lower bed II. Site FLK north: Levels 1-6, the clay with root casts and the Deinotherium level. Site HWK east: Levels 1 and 2
4. The lower part of middle bed II. Site HWK east: the sandy conglomerate: Levels 3-5
5. The upper part of middle bed II. Site EF-HR. The main occupation site at MNK. Sites FC west and FC. Site SHK
6. Upper bed II. Sites TK and BK
Part II. 7. The discoveries of hominid remains
8. Mammalian bones from Beds I and II with evidence of hominid modification
9. The faunal remains from the living sites in Beds I and II
10. Summary and discussion
Appendices
References
Index.