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Cultural beginnings : approaches to understanding early hominid life-ways in the African savanna
- Title
- Cultural beginnings : approaches to understanding early hominid life-ways in the African savanna / J. Desmond Clark (ed.).
- Publication
- Bonn : R. Habelt, 1991.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002.
- Description
- xi, 208 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- Monographien, 0171-1474 ; Bd. 19
- Uniform Title
- Monographien (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz) ; Bd. 19.
- Subject
- Prehistoric peoples > Africa > Congresses
- Fossil hominids > Africa > Congresses
- Language and languages > Origin > Congresses
- Antiquities
- Fossil hominids
- Language and languages > Origin
- Prehistoric peoples
- Hominidae
- Kultur
- Savanne
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- Kongress
- Origine de l'homme
- Évolution
- Hominidés fossiles > Afrique orientale
- Africa > Antiquities > Congresses
- Africa
- Afrika
- Subsaharisches Afrika
- Afrique orientale > Antiquités préhistoriques
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- At head of title: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Verbindung mit der Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques, 11. Kongress, Mainz, 31. August - 5. September 1987.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- pt. A. Early hominid diet and analogues, models and ways of distinguishing the evidences of hominid activity from that of other animal agencies. Ecobotanical contexts for African hominids / M. O'Brien, R. Peters. On the marks of marrow bone processing by hammerstones and hyaenas: their anatomical patterning and archaeological implications / J. Blumenschine, M. Selvaggio. Bone distribution on a modern East African landscape and its archaeological implications / H.T. Bunn, E.M. Kroll, L.E. Bertram -- pt. B. Proto-language. The origin of speech / J. Wind. The emergence of spoken language in hominid evolution / Ph. V. Tobias -- pt. C. Earlier Stone Age assemblages from East and South Africa. On making behavioral inferences for early archaeological sites / K.D. Schick. The importance of experimental replicative and functional studies in Palaeolithic archaeology / N. Toth. The culture-stratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Acheulian sites of Lake Natron, Tanzania / A.A. Mturi. Kilombe: review of an Acheulian site complex / J.A.J. Gowlett. Stone artifact assemblages from Swartkrans, Transvaal, South Africa / J. Desmond Clark -- pt. D. Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age industries and the origins of modern humans. Recent research in western Kenya and its implications for the status of the Sangoan industry / S. McBrearty. Context for the emergence of modern man in eastern Africa: some new Tanzanian evidence / M.J. Mehlman. Chronology and stratigraphy of the Middle Palaeolithic at Bir Tarfawi, Egypt / F. Wendorf [and others].
- ISBN
- 3774924848
- 9783774924840
- LCCN
- 92136693
- OCLC
- ocm25083872
- 25083872
- SCSB-1955231
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library