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Author : Mary Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 1995-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521334037

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At Olduvai Gorge natural erosion exposed a deep series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artefact and fossil assemblages spanning the last 1.8 million years. The sire ot famous as a rsult of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This volume, written largely by Mary Leakey herself, is the last of the reports and records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai sequence from excavations carried out from the end of 1968 until 1971. The period covered here is from about 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago and th efinds include artefacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in beds II, IV na the Masek beds. The volume follows on from the archaeological record in beds I and II published in volume 3 of the series.

Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.

Author : L. S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : 052105527X

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Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating. The purpose of this volume is to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.

Author : M. D. Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 1971-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521077230

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The third volume of the definitive publication of the remains of early man found at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.

Author : P. V. Tobias
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1967-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521069017

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For this second volume of the definitive publication of the Olduvai findings, Professor Tobias has undertaken a definitive analysis of the cranium.

Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1402061528

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The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.

Author : Todd K. Shackelford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2021-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319196497

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This comprehensive, twelve volume reference work reflects the interdisciplinary influences on evolutionary psychology and serves as a major resource for its history, scientific contributors and theories. It draws on biology, cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, economics, computer science and paleoarchaeology to provide a multifaceted picture of behavioral adaptation in humans and how it adds to our academic and clinical understanding. Edited by a noted figure in evolutionary psychology, with many seminal and renowned contributors, this encyclopedia offers the full breadth of an area that is the forefront of behavioral thinking and investigation.