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1 online resource (xxxii, 574 pages) : illustrations |
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Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics / Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell -- The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the French and South African research traditions / Nathan Schlanger -- Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal / Charles K. Brain -- Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids / Frederic Joulian -- Tools and brains: which came first? / Phillip V. Tobias -- Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us / Marion K. Bamford -- Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the miocene of Kenya / Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut -- Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy / Brigitte Senut -- The impact of new excavations from the cradle of humankind on our understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures / Lee R. Berger -- Stone age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park vicinity / Kathleen Kuman -- Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands / Dominque Gommery -- Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio-Pleistocene specimen / Sandrine Prat -- Early Homo, 'robust' australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa / Francis Thackeray and Jose Braga |
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The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions / Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d'Errico -- Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins / Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins -- An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the middle and late pleistocene / Nichals J. Conard -- From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern humans and Neanderthals / Curtis W. Marean -- New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the west European middle to upper Palaeolithic transition / David Lewis-Williams -- Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity / Marie Soressi -- Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson's Poort at Klasies River / Sarah Wurz -- Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave / Christopher Henshilwood -- Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts of MSA deposits at Blomobs Cave, South Africa / Zenobia Jacobs -- From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape / John Parkington -- Chronology of the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from luminescence / Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Helen Vallada -- Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone tool residues / Bonny S. Williamson -- Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments / Marian Vanhaeren |
| Summary |
This collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of collaborative research of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tobias, Phillip V. -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Tobias, Phillip V. fast |
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Hominids -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Paleoclimatology -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Hominids
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Paleoclimatology
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
D'Errico, Francesco.
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Backwell, Lucinda.
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| ISBN |
9781868146376 |
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1868146375 |
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9781776142293 |
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1776142292 |
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