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The first Africans : African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers / Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell.

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This is a synthesis of the known record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers, combining the insights of archaeology with those of other disciplines, such as genetics and palaeo-environmental science.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Barham, Lawrence
Other Authors: Mitchell, Peter, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge world archaeology.
Subjects:
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Africa.
Prehistoric peoples > Africa.
Tools, Prehistoric > Africa.
Hunting and gathering societies > Africa.
Africa > Antiquities.
Africa
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Prehistoric peoples.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the African record
  • Frameworks in space and time
  • First tool-users and -makers
  • Early Pleistocene technologies and societies
  • Mid-Pleistocene foragers
  • Transitions and origins
  • The big dry : the archaeology of marine isotope stages 4-2
  • Transitions : from the Pleistocene into the Holocene
  • Hunting, gathering, intensifying : the Mid-Holocene record
  • Foragers in a world of farmers
  • The future of the first Africans' past.

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