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The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers /

Barham, Lawrence.

The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers / Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xvii, 601 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Cambridge world archaeology .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-585) and index.

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.

9780521847964 (hardback) 0521847966 (hardback) 9780521612654 (pbk.) 0521612659 (pbk.)

2007035552


Antiquities, Prehistoric--Africa.
Prehistoric peoples--Africa.
Tools, Prehistoric--Africa.
Hunting and gathering societies--Africa.


Africa--Antiquities.

GN861 / BAR 2008

960/.1