The evolution of modern Humans in Africa a comprehensive guide.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Lanham Altamira Press 2007Description: XXI, 439 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0759101183
  • 0759101191
  • 9780759101180
  • 9780759101197
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / by Joseph O. Vogel -- Modern human origins : a people without history -- Historical perspectives : the place of humans in nature -- The palaeoenvironmental context : the origin and dispersal of modern humans -- The chronological framework : dating the appearance and spread of homo sapiens -- Out of Africa : when and how many times : alternative models of modern human origins -- Mitochondrial Eve and the Middle Stone Age : genetics and human variation -- The fossil hominin evidence -- The archaeological evidence from North Africa -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa I -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa II -- Conclusions: What does it mean to be a modern homo sapiens?
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Archaeology & Prehistory 118.848 Pr ; MENS PALEO HUM 238 Available RMCA5049

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-407) and index.

Foreword / by Joseph O. Vogel -- Modern human origins : a people without history -- Historical perspectives : the place of humans in nature -- The palaeoenvironmental context : the origin and dispersal of modern humans -- The chronological framework : dating the appearance and spread of homo sapiens -- Out of Africa : when and how many times : alternative models of modern human origins -- Mitochondrial Eve and the Middle Stone Age : genetics and human variation -- The fossil hominin evidence -- The archaeological evidence from North Africa -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa I -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa II -- Conclusions: What does it mean to be a modern homo sapiens?