Africa from MIS 6-2 Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jones, Sacha C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stewart, Brian A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Africa from MIS 6-2: The Florescence of Modern Humans
• Part I Coasts
• Chapter 2 Mid to Late Quaternary Landscape and Environmental Dynamics in the Middle Stone Age of Southern South Africa
• 3 Chapter Technological Change and the Importance of Variability: the Western Cape of South Africa from MIS 5-2
• Chapter 4 Cultural Change, Demography, and the Archaeology of the Last 100 kyr in Southern Africa
• Chapter 5 Patterns of Hominin Occupation and Cultural Diversity Across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya over the Last ~200 kyr
• Part II Deserts
• Chapter 6 Climate Change and Modern Human Occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2
• Chapter 7 Climate, Environment and Population Dynamics in Pleistocene Sahara
• Chapter 8 Technological Systems, Population Dynamics and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa
• Chapter 9 Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Occupation of the Southern African Interior
• Chapter 10 The Kalahari During MIS 6-2 (190-12 ka): Archaeology, Paleoenvironment and Population Dynamics
• Chapter 11 Paleoenvironments, Sea Levels and Land Use in Namaqualand, South Africa, During MIS 6-2
• Part III Grasslands, Woodlands and Rainforests
• Chapter 12 Human Evolution in Late Quaternary Eastern Africa
• Chapter 13 Environmental Change, Ungulate Biogeography, and their Implications for Early Human Dispersals in Equatorial East Africa
• Chapter 14 Follow the Senqu: Maloti-Drakensberg Paleoenvironments and Implications for Early Human Dispersals into Mountain Systems
• Chapter 15 Across Rainforests and Woodlands: A Systematic Re-appraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa
• Chapter 16 The Later Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African Rainforest
• Part IV Broader Perspectives
• Chapter 17 The Late Quaternary Hominins of Africa: The Skeletal Evidence from MIS 6-2
• Chapter 18 A Genetic Perspective on African Prehistory
• Chapter 19 Africa From MIS 6-2: Where Do We Go From Here?.