Africa from MIS 6-2 Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jones, Sacha C. (Editor), Stewart, Brian A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Ethnology.; Africa > History.; Paleontology.; Biomathematics.; Archaeology.; Demography.; Earth Sciences.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.; Cultural Anthropology.; African History.

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from our species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the...