Africa from MIS 6-2 : population dynamics and paleoenvironments / edited by Sacha C. Jones, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK, Brian A. Stewart, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Sacha C., editor.

Stewart, Brian A., editor.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, 1877-9077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Africa.

Paleolithic period.

Mesolithic period--Africa.

Mesolithic period.

Prehistoric peoples--Africa--Population.

Prehistoric peoples.

Demographic archaeology--Africa.

Demographic archaeology.

Evolutionary paleoecology--Africa.

Evolutionary paleoecology.

Paleoecology--Pleistocene.

Paleoecology.

Paleoecology--Africa.

Human beings--Africa--Migrations.

Human beings.

Human population genetics--Africa--History.

Human population genetics.

Human evolution--Africa.

Human evolution.

Fossil hominids--Africa.

Fossil hominids.

Human beings--Migrations.

Prehistoric peoples--Population.

History.

Population.

Africa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 424 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Africa from Marine Isotope Stages 6 to 2

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2016]

Contents:

1. Africa from MIS 6-2 : the florescence of modern humans / Brian A. Stewart and Sacha C. Jones

Part I. Coasts. 2. Mid to late Quaternary landscape and environmental dynamics in the Middle Stone Age of southern South Africa / Andrew S. Carr, Brian M. Chase, and Alex Mackay ; 3. Technological change and the importance of variability : the Western Cape of South Africa from MIS 6-2 / Alex Mackay ; 4. Cultural change, demography, and the archaeology of the last 100 kyr in southern Africa / Judith Sealy ; 5. Patterns of hominin occupation and cultural diversity across the Gebel Akhdar of northern Libya over the last ~200 kyr / Sacha Jones, Annita Antoniadou, Huw Barton, Nick Drake, Lucy Farr, Chris Hunt, Robyn Inglis, Tim Reynolds, Kevin White, and Graeme Barker

Part II. Deserts. 6. Climate change and modern human occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2 / Nick Drake and Paul Breeze ; 7. Climate, environment, and population dynamics in Pleistocene Sahara / Emanuele Cancellieri, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni, and Savino di Lernia ; 8. Technological systems, population dynamics, and historical process in the MSA of northern Africa / Philip Van Peer ; 9. Late Quaternary environmental change and human occupation of the southern African interior / Sallie L. Burrough ; 10. The Kalahari during MIS 6-2 (190-12 ka) : archaeology, paleoenvironment, and population dynamics / Lawrence H. Robbins, George A. Brook, Michael L. Murphy, Andrew H. Ivester, and Alec C. Campbell ; 11. Paleoenvironments, sea levels, and land use in Namaqualand, South Africa, during MIS 6-2 / Genevieve Dewar and Brian A. Stewart

Part III. Grasslands, woodlands and rainforests. 12. Human evolution in late Quaternary eastern Africa / Marta Mirazón Lahr and Robert A. Foley ; 13. Environmental change, ungulate biogeography, and their implications for early human dispersals in equatorial East Africa / J. Tyler Faith, Christian A. Tryon, and Daniel J. Peppe ; 14. Follow the Senqu : Maloti-Drakensberg paleoenvironments and implications for early human dispersals into mountain systems / Brian A. Stewart, Adrian G. Parker, Genevieve Dewar, Mike W. Morley, and Lucy F. Allott ; 15. Across rainforests and woodlands : a systematic reappraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa / Nicholas Taylor ; 16. The later Pleistocene in the northeastern Central African rainforest / Els Cornelissen

Part IV. Broader perspectives. 17. The late Quaternary hominins of Africa : the skeletal evidence from MIS 6-2 / Frederick E. Grine ; 18. A genetic perspective on African prehistory / Pedro Soares, Teresa Rito, Luísa Pereira, and Martin B. Richards ; 19. Africa from MIS 6-2 : where do we go from here? / Peter Mitchell.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference entitled Africa from Stages 6 to 2 : population dynamics and paleoenvironments, held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, in July 2010. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789401775199

9401775192

OCLC:

928614993