Modern origins : a North African perspective / edited by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Shannon P. McPherron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hublin, Jean-Jacques.

McPherron, Shannon P.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Max Planck Institute subseries in human evolution

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology, 1877-9077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Africa, North--Origin.

Human beings.

Human evolution--Africa, North.

Human evolution.

North Africa.

Physical Description:

xxi, 244 pages : illustrations, maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]

Contents:

Pt. 1. Paleoenvironment and Chronology

A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea / A. Moreno

A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental Variability in North Africa and its Implications for Modern Human Origins / J. C. Larrasoaña

Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North Africa / J. R. Smith

The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa / D. Geraads

New Data from the Site of Ifri n'Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb / D. Richter, J. Moser and M. Nami

Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan Aterian / J.-P. Raynal and S. Occhietti.

Pt. 2. Archaeology

The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco / A. Bouzouggar and R. N. E. Barton

Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: The State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental Context / T. E. Steele

Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex / E. A. A. Garcea

Middle Stone Age in Tunisia: Present Status of Knowledge and Recent Advances / N. Aouadi-Abdeljaouad and L. Belhouchet

The Aterian of the Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Adaptation to Changing Climatic Conditions? / A. L. Hawkins.

Pt. 3. The Fossil Hominins

Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis / K. Harvati and J.-J. Hublin

Dental Evidence from the Aterian Human Populations of Morocco / J.-J. Hublin, C. Verna, S. Bailey, T. Smith and A. Olejniczak, et al.

The Upper Paleolithic Human Remains of Nazlet Khater 2 (Egypt) and Past Modern Human Diversity / I. Crevecoeur

Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin of Modern Humans / G. Bräuer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9400729286

9789400729285

OCLC:

759177544

Publisher Number:

99948847924