Africa from MIS 6-2. : population dynamics and paleoenvironments
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Africa from Marine Isotope Stages 6 to 2 |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Jones, Sacha C.
Stewart, Brian A. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Science+Business Media,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 424 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology
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| ISBN: | 94-017-7519-2 9789401775199 |
| ISSN: | 1877-9077 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Africa from MIS 6-2 : Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments (Online version) |
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Africa from MIS 6-2 : the florescence of modern humans / Brian A. Stewart and Sacha C. Jones
- Part I. Coasts. 2. Mid to late Quaternary landscape and environmental dynamics in the Middle Stone Age of southern South Africa / Andrew S. Carr, Brian M. Chase, and Alex Mackay ; 3. Technological change and the importance of variability : the Western Cape of South Africa from MIS 6-2 / Alex Mackay ; 4. Cultural change, demography, and the archaeology of the last 100 kyr in southern Africa / Judith Sealy ; 5. Patterns of hominin occupation and cultural diversity across the Gebel Akhdar of northern Libya over the last ~200 kyr / Sacha Jones, Annita Antoniadou, Huw Barton, Nick Drake, Lucy Farr, Chris Hunt, Robyn Inglis, Tim Reynolds, Kevin White, and Graeme Barker
- Part II. Deserts. 6. Climate change and modern human occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2 / Nick Drake and Paul Breeze ; 7. Climate, environment, and population dynamics in Pleistocene Sahara / Emanuele Cancellieri, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni, and Savino di Lernia ; 8. Technological systems, population dynamics, and historical process in the MSA of northern Africa / Philip Van Peer ; 9. Late Quaternary environmental change and human occupation of the southern African interior / Sallie L. Burrough ; 10. The Kalahari during MIS 6-2 (190-12 ka) : archaeology, paleoenvironment, and population dynamics / Lawrence H. Robbins, George A. Brook, Michael L. Murphy, Andrew H. Ivester, and Alec C. Campbell ; 11. Paleoenvironments, sea levels, and land use in Namaqualand, South Africa, during MIS 6-2 / Genevieve Dewar and Brian A. Stewart
- Part III. Grasslands, woodlands and rainforests. 12. Human evolution in late Quaternary eastern Africa / Marta Mirazón Lahr and Robert A. Foley ; 13. Environmental change, ungulate biogeography, and their implications for early human dispersals in equatorial East Africa / J. Tyler Faith, Christian A. Tryon, and Daniel J. Peppe ;
- 14. Follow the Senqu : Maloti-Drakensberg paleoenvironments and implications for early human dispersals into mountain systems / Brian A. Stewart, Adrian G. Parker, Genevieve Dewar, Mike W. Morley, and Lucy F. Allott ; 15. Across rainforests and woodlands : a systematic reappraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa / Nicholas Taylor ; 16. The later Pleistocene in the northeastern Central African rainforest / Els Cornelissen
- Part IV. Broader perspectives. 17. The late Quaternary hominins of Africa : the skeletal evidence from MIS 6-2 / Frederick E. Grine ; 18. A genetic perspective on African prehistory / Pedro Soares, Teresa Rito, Luísa Pereira, and Martin B. Richards ; 19. Africa from MIS 6-2 : where do we go from here? / Peter Mitchell.
