A search for origins
Subtitle: science, history and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind
By: edited by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Trefor Jenkins.
Contributors: Bonner, P. L.; Esterhuysen, A.; Jenkins, Trefor, M.D.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781868144181
Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology -- South Africa.; Prehistoric peoples -- South Africa.; Fossil hominids -- South Africa.; Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (South Africa); South Africa -- History.; South Africa -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (279-293) and index.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: 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; value: 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; value: 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; value: 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; value: Epilogue. Voice of politics, voice of science : politics and science after 1945 / Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins.