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Author : Mary Douglas Leakey
Release : 1979
Genre : Anthropologists
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Book Synopsis Olduvai Gorge by : Mary Douglas Leakey
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge written by Mary Douglas Leakey. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Leakey
Release : 1995-01-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Olduvai Gorge: Volume 5, Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds by : Mary Leakey
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 5, Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds written by Mary Leakey. This book was released on 1995-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Olduvai Gorge natural erosion exposed a deep series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artefact and fossil assemblages spanning the last 1.8 million years. The sire ot famous as a rsult of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This volume, written largely by Mary Leakey herself, is the last of the reports and records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai sequence from excavations carried out from the end of 1968 until 1971. The period covered here is from about 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago and th efinds include artefacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in beds II, IV na the Masek beds. The volume follows on from the archaeological record in beds I and II published in volume 3 of the series.
Author : Roland Oliver
Release : 1992
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The African Experience by : Roland Oliver
Download or read book The African Experience written by Roland Oliver. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Release : 2007-07-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites by : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Download or read book Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites written by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo. This book was released on 2007-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.
Author : L. S. B. Leakey
Release : 1965
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Olduvai Gorge: Volume 1 by : L. S. B. Leakey
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 1 written by L. S. B. Leakey. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating. The purpose of this volume is to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
