Adventures in the Bone Trade The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kalb, Jon (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. Many of the fossils found in this region are the missing links leading to modern humans. This book chronicles the exploration...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• An Oceanic Desert
• Afar Gold
• The Awash Valley
• Louis and Mary Leakey
• Looking for Leadu Man
• Hadar
• Transition
• Famine and Fame
• Storm Clouds
• Desert Origins
• Dawn of Humanity
• A New Mission
• An Acheulean “City”
• Rebellion
• The Oldowan
• The “First Movie”
• The Miocene
• Crossing the Talalak
• The Central Awash
• Baboons and Pigs
• The Artifact Trail
• Human Origins
• Espionage Science
• Big-Game Feeders
• National Security
• African Cake
• The CIA Lives
• Prehistoric Feast.