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The First Africans

Name: The First Africans
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521847964
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1ST AFRICANS

Contributor(s): Barham, Lawrence Author , Mitchell, Peter Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9780521847964
Subtitle	1ST AFRICANS
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	October 2008
Language	English
MRP	£74.00 GBP
Page count	622
Item weight	238 g

Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers. It combines the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeoenvironmental science. African evidence is critical to important debates, such as the origins of stone toolmaking, the emergence of recognisably modern forms of cognition and behaviour, and the expansion of successive hominins from Africa to other parts of the world. Africa's enormous ecological diversity and exceptionally long history also provide an unparalleled opportunity to examine the impact of environment change on human populations. African foragers have also long been viewed as archetypes of the hunter-gatherer way of life, a view that is debated in this volume. Also examined is their relevance for understanding the development and spread of food production and the social and ideological significance of the rock art that many of them have produced.

The First Africans

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Barham, Lawrence Author

Mitchell, Peter Author

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