Modern Origins

A North African Perspective
2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-9924-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

Reihe: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcpherron, Shannon P.

Hublin, Jean-Jacques

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1. Paleoenvironment and Chronology.- Section 2. Archaeology.- Section 3. The Fossil Hominins.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Jacques, Hublin, Ph.D. is the founder of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). He is a leading researcher in paleoanthropology and is renowned worldwide for his work on the origin and evolution of the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. He extensively developed the use of virtual imaging in the study of fossil hominids and has led field operations in North Africa and Europe. Shannon P. McPherron is an archaeologist in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He has published extensively on stone tool technologies and on methods of excavation and analysis in archaeology. McPherron has excavated a number of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in France, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Currently the authors are excavating two sites in Morocco together.