An edition of The first Africans
(2008)
The first Africans
African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers
by Lawrence Barham
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This is a synthesis of the known record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers, combining the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeo-environmental science.
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Introducing the African record
Frameworks in space and time
First tool-users and -makers
Early Pleistocene technologies and societies
Mid-Pleistocene foragers
Transitions and origins
The big dry : the archaeology of marine isotope stages 4-2
Transitions : from the Pleistocene into the Holocene
Hunting, gathering, intensifying : the Mid-Holocene record
Foragers in a world of farmers
The future of the first Africans' past.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-585) and index.
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