The first Africans
Subtitle: African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers
By: Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, Peter, 1962-
Series: Cambridge world archaeology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 601
ISBN-13: 9780521847964; 9780521612654
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Africa; Prehistoric peoples -- Africa; Tools, Prehistoric -- Africa; Hunting and gathering societies -- Africa; Africa -- Antiquities
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-585) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the African record; title: Frameworks in space and time; title: First tool-users and -makers; title: Early Pleistocene technologies and societies; title: Mid-Pleistocene foragers; title: Transitions and origins; title: The big dry : the archaeology of marine isotope stages 4-2; title: Transitions : from the Pleistocene into the Holocene; title: Hunting, gathering, intensifying : the Mid-Holocene record; title: Foragers in a world of farmers; title: The future of the first Africans' past.