Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell

The First Africans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest inhabitants combining archaeology, genetics and palaeo-environmental science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1149g
• ISBN-13: 9780521847964
• ISBN-10: 0521847966
• Artikelnr.: 26183106

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Barham is Professor in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. A scholar of the evolution of symbolic behaviours, he is the author of The Middle Stone Age of Zambia and co-author of Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. Barham serves on the Council of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and is editor of the journal Before Farming: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing the African record
2. Frameworks in space and time
3. First tool users and makers
4. Early Pleistocene foragers
5. Mid-Pleistocene foragers
6. Transitions and origins
7. The Big Dry: the archaeology of marine isotope 4-2
8. Hunting, gathering, intensifying: the mid-Holocene record
9. Foragers in a world of farmers
10. The future of the first Africans' past.

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1. Introducing the African record; 2. Frameworks in space and time; 3. First tool users and makers; 4. Early Pleistocene foragers; 5. Mid-Pleistocene foragers; 6. Transitions and origins; 7. The Big Dry: the archaeology of marine isotope 4-2; 8. Hunting, gathering, intensifying: the mid-Holocene record; 9. Foragers in a world of farmers; 10. The future of the first Africans' past.

Rezensionen

"...probably the best available survey of prehistoric Africa. Recommended." --Choice