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
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