Modern Origins (eBook)

Jean-Jacques, Hublin, Ph.D. is the founder of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). He is a leading researcher in paleoanthropology and is renowned worldwide for his work on the origin and evolution of the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. He extensively developed the use of virtual imaging in the study of fossil hominids and has led field operations in North Africa and Europe. Shannon P. McPherron is an archaeologist in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He has published extensively on stone tool technologies and on methods of excavation and analysis in archaeology. McPherron has excavated a number of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in France, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Currently the authors are excavating two sites in Morocco together.

SECTION 1. PALEOENVIRONMENT AND CHRONOLOGY1. A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: the Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea.2. A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental Variability in North Africa and its Implications for Modern Human Origins.3. Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North Africa.4. The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa.5. New Data from the Site of Ifri n’Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb.6. Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan Aterian.SECTION 2. ARCHAEOLOGY7. The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco.8. Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: the State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental Context.9. Modern Human Desert Adaptations: a Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex.10. Middle Stone Age in Tunisia: Present Status of Knowledge and Recent Advances.11. The Aterian of the Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Adaptation to Changing Climatic Conditions?.SECTION 3. THE FOSSIL HOMININS12. Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa – a 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis.13. Dental Evidence from the Aterian Human Populations of Morocco.14. The Upper Paleolithic Human Remains of Nazlet Khater 2 (Egypt) and Past Modern Human Diversity.15. Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin of Modern Humans.​