Plio Pleistocene Archaeology
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Plio Pleistocene Archaeology
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Author : Meave G. Leakey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Plio Pleistocene Archaeology written by Meave G. Leakey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Archaeology categories.
This volume, the fifth in the important Koobi Fora series on human origins, reports archaeological finds from excavations at East Turkana in northern Kenya from 1969-1979. It concentrates on the evidence from the period between 1.9 and 0.7 million years ago for reconstructing the behavior of early human ancestors. During this research study, new interdisciplinary methods of survey, mapping, excavation, experimentation, and analysis were developed. The study investigated the geology, stratigraphy, site formation processes, technology of the stone assemblages, and associated fauna of the region. This book is a unique record for this time period in Kenya, and this work is a benchmark in the field of human evolution.
Koobi Fora Research Project Plio Pleistocene Archaeology
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Author : Meave G. Leakey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Koobi Fora Research Project Plio Pleistocene Archaeology written by Meave G. Leakey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fossil hominids categories.
Growing Up In The Ice Age
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Author : April Nowell
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Growing Up In The Ice Age written by April Nowell and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with History categories.
It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles (however they would have codified these kin relationships) who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, Growing Up in the Ice Age challenges these assumptions. This volume is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering the “invisible” children visible, readers will gain a new understanding not only of the contributions that children have made to the biological and cultural entities we are today but also of the Paleolithic period as whole.
Sangiran Man Culture And Environment In Pleistocene Times
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Author : Truman Simanjuntak
language : en
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Release Date : 2001
Sangiran Man Culture And Environment In Pleistocene Times written by Truman Simanjuntak and has been published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
Asian Paleoanthropology
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Author : Christopher J. Norton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-08-26
Asian Paleoanthropology written by Christopher J. Norton and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-26 with Social Science categories.
This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeological and hominin fossil records of particular regions.
Hominin Environments In The East African Pliocene
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Author : René Bobe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-09-08
Hominin Environments In The East African Pliocene written by René Bobe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-08 with Science categories.
This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.
Pliocene And Pleistocene Archaeology West Of Lake Turkana Kenya
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Author : Mzalendo Kibunjia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Pliocene And Pleistocene Archaeology West Of Lake Turkana Kenya written by Mzalendo Kibunjia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Paleontology categories.
Pleistocene Archaeology
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Author : Rintaro Ono
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-12
Pleistocene Archaeology written by Rintaro Ono and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12 with Geology, Stratigraphic categories.
This book presents an overview of recent research in the field of Pleistocene Archaeology around the world. The main topics of this book are: (1) human migrations, particularly by Homo sapiens who have migrated into most regions of the world and settled in different environments, (2) the development of human technology from early to archaic hominins and Homo sapiens, and (3) human adaptation to new environments and responses to environmental changes caused by climate changes during the Pleistocene. With such perspectives in mind, this book contains a total of nine insightful and stimulating chapters on these topics, in which human history during the time of the Pleistocene is reviewed and discussed.
Patchiness And Prosociality Modeling The Evolution And Archaeology Of Plio Pleistocene Hominin Food Sharing
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Author : Luke Premo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Patchiness And Prosociality Modeling The Evolution And Archaeology Of Plio Pleistocene Hominin Food Sharing written by Luke Premo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
This dissertation begins with a comprehensive review of the evolutionary biological debate over the evolution of altruism and a discussion of how various models of mechanism have influenced the models of circumstance that paleoanthropologists continue to use in reconstructing details about the level of cooperation displayed by early hominin societies. The remainder of the dissertation concerns itself with systematically exposing previously unquestioned assumptions to potential falsification as well as with exploring some new scenarios concerning the evolution and landscape archaeology of Plio-Pleistocene hominin food sharing, all via a null agent-based model called SHARE. This heuristic model was built to address two major questions: (1) What range of ecological and social conditions facilitates the evolution of food sharing in artificial Plio-Pleistocene hominin populations and (2) Is food sharing at central places necessary for the formation of the so-called"scatter and patches"archaeological landscapes that are characteristic of the Plio-Pleistocene record in East Africa? In answer to the first question, population-level genetic results collected from artificial societies of hominin agents demonstrate that the so-called transitional zone of ecological patchiness can facilitate the evolution of altruistic food sharing in mixed starting populations, even if foragers lack the ability to remember past interactions or to avoid social cheaters. In answer to the second question, ecological patchiness can affect the movements of simple foragers such that the artificial archaeological landscapes they create display the same spatial signature that characterizes observed Oldowan landscapes. That is, in ecological conditions marked by fragmented food resources, archaeological landscapes composed of both concentrated patches and diffuse scatters can form as a result of solitary foragers using simple routes that are in no way tethered to culturally-defined and culturally-maintained central places. In the end, SHARE provides new hypotheses about how ecological patchiness could have influenced both the evolution of altruistic food sharing and the structure of Lower Paleolithic archaeological landscapes. The latter can be tested in the field by looking at the relationship between artifact density and the paleoenvironmental characteristics of locales both in which artifacts are abundant and from which they are conspicuously absent.
Handbook Of Pleistocene Archaeology Of Africa
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Author : Amanuel Beyin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-17
Handbook Of Pleistocene Archaeology Of Africa written by Amanuel Beyin and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-17 with Social Science categories.
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million–11,700 years ago) during which important human traits, such as obligate bipedalism that freed the hands to engage in creative activities, a large brain relative to body size, language, and social complexity, developed in the general forms that they are found today. The handbook is the first of its kind, and it is expected to play a significant role in human evolutionary research by: ❖ Collating the African Stone Age record, which exists in a fragmented state along the lines of national boundaries and colonial experiences. ❖ Showcasing emerging conceptual and methodological advances in African Pleistocene archaeology. ❖ Providing reference datasets for teaching and researching African prehistory. ❖ Making Africa’s Stone Age record accessible to researchers and students based in Africa who may not have access to journal publications where most new field discoveries are published. The Handbook features 128 chapters, of which 116 are site entries grouped by the host countries and presented in an alphabetical order. A number of those site-related entries examine multiple archaeological localities lumped under specific projects or study areas. The rest of the contributions deal with methodological topics, such as luminescence and radiocarbon dating, field data recovery, lithic analysis, micromorphology, and hominin fossil and zooarchaeological records of Pleistocene Africa. The introductory chapter provides an historical overview of the development of Stone Age (Paleolithic) archaeology in Africa beginning in the mid-19th century, and paleoenvironmental and chronological frameworks commonly used to structure the continent’s Pleistocene record. By making a good amount of African Stone Age literature accessible to researchers and the public, we wish to promote interest in human evolutionary research in the continent and elsewhere.