Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa (eBook, PDF)

Physical and Human Dimensions
Redaktion: Knight, Jasper

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316572900
• Artikelnr.: 45146010

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 1. The context of Quaternary environmental change in
southern Africa Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 2. A brief geological
history of southern Africa Steve McCourt; 3. A continental-scale
perspective on landscape evolution in southern Africa during the Cenozoic
Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 4. Hominin origins and evolution during
the Neogene Jason L. Heaton; 5. Hominin evolution during the Quaternary
Kristian J. Carlson and Sarah Edlund; 6. Quaternary environmental change on
the southern African coastal plain John S. Compton; 7. Dating the southern
African landscape Stephan Woodborne; 8. Glacial and periglacial
geomorphology Stefan W. Grab and Jasper Knight; 9. Colluvial deposits and
slope instability Greg A. Botha, Arnaud J. A. M. Temme and Rebekah G.
Singh; 10. Desert dune environments David S. G. Thomas; 11. Changes in
fluvial systems during the Quaternary Stephen Tooth; 12. Wetlands in
southern Africa William N. Ellery, Suzanne E. Grenfell, Michael C.
Grenfell, Rebecca Powell, Donovan C. Kotze, Philip M. Marren and Jasper
Knight; 13. Sandy coasts Hayley C. Cawthra and Mark D. Bateman; 14.
Environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene: estuaries and
lagoons of southern Africa Ander M. de Lecea, Andrew N. Green and J. Andrew
G. Cooper; 15. Soils and duricrusts Jürgen Runge; 16. Karstic systems Karin
Holmgren and Paul Shaw; 17. Terrestrial ecosystem changes in the late
Quaternary Michael E. Meadows and Lynne J. Quick; 18. Faunal evidence for
mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa James S.
Brink; 19. Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and
Quaternary environments in southern Africa Marion K. Bamford, Frank H.
Neumann and Louis Scott; 20. Minerogenic microfossil records of Quaternary
environmental change in southern Africa Jennifer M. Fitchett, Jasper Knight
and Stefan W. Grab; 21. Development of the archaeological record in
southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age Kathleen Kuman; 22.
Development of the archaeological record during the Middle Stone Age of
South Africa Sarah Wurz; 23. Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers and herders
Peter Mitchell; 24. Southernmost Africans, archaeology and the environment
during the Holocene Maria H. Schoeman; 25. Landscape-climate-human
relations in the Quaternary of southern Africa Jasper Knight, Dominic
Stratford and Stefan W. Grab; Index.