Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 5 -

Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 5

Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology
Buch | Hardcover
632 Seiten
1997
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-857501-6 (ISBN)
174,55 inkl. MwSt
This volume, the fifth in the important Koobi Fora series on human origins, reports archaeological finds from excavations at East Turkana in northern Kenya. Volume 5 concentrates on the evidence from the period between 1.9 and 0.7 million years ago for reconstructing the behaviour of early human ancestors. This work is a benchmark in the field of human evolution.
This is the fifth volume in the important Koobi Fora series on human origins, covering archaeological finds from excavations at East Turkana in northern Kenya. Volume 5 concentrates on the evidence from the period between 1.9 and 0.7 million years ago and reconstructs the behaviour of early human ancestors. The book answers such questions as: How were the stone tools made and utilized? How large were the groups of hominids, and how mobile? Do animal bones really give us a true impression of what food they ate? The stone artefacts, bones, and features of the ancient landscape recorded in this book provide a solid basis for further work on human evolution.

List of contributors ; List of appendices ; List of plates ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Introduction ; Geological context and environment ; Sites stratified within the KBS tuff ; Sites in the Upper KBS, Okote, and Chari members ; Site formation processes crania ; The stone artefact assemblages: a comparative study ; The artefact assemblages in the light of experimental studies ; Bone assemblages from the excavated sites ; Three-dimensional distributions of stones and bones at selected archaeological sites ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; References

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.6.1997
Reihe/Serie Koobi Fora Research Project
Zusatzinfo numerous halftones, line figures, and tables
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 228 x 314 mm
Gewicht 2389 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-857501-7 / 0198575017
ISBN-13 978-0-19-857501-6 / 9780198575016
Zustand Neuware
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