Papers In The Prehistory Of The Western Cape South Africa
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Author | : John Parkington |
Publisher | : British Archaeological Association |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388397 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388403 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544258 (Volume set).
Author | : John Parkington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
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Author | : John Parkington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Amanuel Beyin |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 2194 |
Release | : 2023-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3031202902 |
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.
Author | : Martin Hall |
Publisher | : BAR International Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781407388397 |
Author | : Martin Hall |
Publisher | : BAR International Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781407388403 |
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388397 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388403 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544258 (Volume set).
Author | : Siyakha Mguni |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2016-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784914479 |
This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations.
Author | : Olga Soffer |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461318173 |
Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state, have found this approach suitable for comprehension of both ecological and social aspects of human behavior. This research focus has, however, until recently left virtually un touched a major spatial and temporaI segment of prehistory-the Old World during the Pleistocene. Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so ciocuhural entities. This volume presents our current state of knowledge about a variety of regional adaptations that charaeterized prehistoric groups in the Old World before 10,000 B. P. The authors of the chapters consider the behavior of humans rather than that of objects or features and present data and models for variaus aspects of past cultures and for culture change. These presentations integrate findings and understandings derived from a number of related disciplines actively involved in researching the past. Data and interpretations are offered on a range of Old \yorld regions during the PaIeolithic, induding Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and chronological coverage spans from the Early to Late PIeisto cene.
Author | : Christopher Stuart Henshilwood |
Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 75 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll
Author | : Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2024-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1009324764 |
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.