Author: Mary Douglas LeakeyPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Anthropologists
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Olduvai Gorge
Author: Mary Douglas LeakeyPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Anthropologists
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The African Experience
Author: Roland OliverPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.
Olduvai Gorge: Volume 1
Author: L. S. B. LeakeyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052105527X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating. The purpose of this volume is to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
Author: Manuel Domínguez-RodrigoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402061528
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.
Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963
Author: M. D. LeakeyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521077230
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The third volume of the definitive publication of the remains of early man found at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.
Geology of the Olduvai Gorge
Author: Richard LeRoy HayPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5885053340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Geology of the Olduvai Gorge
Author: Richard HayPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520334221
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Olduvai Gorge: Volume 2
Author: P. V. TobiasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521069017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
For this second volume of the definitive publication of the Olduvai findings, Professor Tobias has undertaken a definitive analysis of the cranium.
Olduvai Gorge: Volume 5, Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds
Author: Mary LeakeyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521334037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
At Olduvai Gorge natural erosion exposed a deep series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artefact and fossil assemblages spanning the last 1.8 million years. The sire ot famous as a rsult of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This volume, written largely by Mary Leakey herself, is the last of the reports and records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai sequence from excavations carried out from the end of 1968 until 1971. The period covered here is from about 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago and th efinds include artefacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in beds II, IV na the Masek beds. The volume follows on from the archaeological record in beds I and II published in volume 3 of the series.
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Author: Manuel Domínguez-RodrigoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.