An edition of A search for origins
(2007)
A search for origins
science, history and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind
by P. L. Bonner and Jenkins, Trefor M.D.
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A Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa's "Cradle of Humankind"
October 31, 2007, Witwatersrand University Press, Wits University Press
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A search for origins: science, history and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind
2007, Wits University Press
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Table of Contents
Part 1. Africa is seldom what it seems. Introduction / Philip Bonner ; White South Africa and the South Africanisation of science : humankind or kinds of humans? / Saul Dubow
Part 2. Fossils and genes : a new anthropology of evolution. Introduction / Trefor Jenkins ; A history of South African palaeoanthropology / Kevin Kuykendall and Goran Štrkalj ; Fossil hominids of the 'Cradle of Humankind' / Kevin Kuykendall ; Unravelling the history of modern humans in Southern Africa : the contribution of genetic studies / Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins ; Fossil plants from the 'Cradle of Humankind' / Marion Bamford
Part 3. The emerging Stone Age. Introduction / Amanda Esterhuysen ; The earlier Stone Age / Amanda Esterhuysen ; The middle Stone Age and later Stone Age / Lyn Wadley ; Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley / David Pearce
Part 4. The myth of the vacant land. Introduction / Philip Bonner ; The early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the 'Cradle of Humankind' / Thomas N. Huffman ; Tswana history in the Bankenveld / Simon Hall ; The early Boer Republics : changing political forces in the 'Cradle of Humankind', 1830s to 1890s / Jane Carruthers
Part 5. The racial paradox : Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation. Introduction / Philip Bonner ; The legacy of gold / Philip Bonner ; The story of Sterkfontein since 1895 / Phillip V. Tobias ; The South African War of 1899-1902 in the 'Cradle of Humankind' / Vincent Carruthers ; White South Africa's 'weak sons' : poor whites and the Hartebeespoort Dam / Tim Clynick
Epilogue. Voice of politics, voice of science : politics and science after 1945 / Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins.
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Includes bibliographical references (279-293) and index.
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