Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology

Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa

Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
 
Kiadás sorszáma: 1st ed. 2023
Kiadó: Springer
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ISBN13:9783031202896
ISBN10:3031202899
Kötéstípus:Keménykötés
Terjedelem:2146 oldal
Méret:235x155 mm
Súly:4277 g
Nyelv:angol
Illusztrációk: 18 Illustrations, black & white; 132 Illustrations, color; 20 Tables, color
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This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million?11,700 years ago) during which important human traits, such as obligate bipedalism that freed the hands to engage in creative activities, a large brain relative to body size, language, and social complexity, developed in the general forms that they are found today. The handbook is the first of its kind, and it is expected to play a significant role in human evolutionary research by:

? Collating the African Stone Age record, which exists in a fragmented state along the lines of national boundaries and colonial experiences.

? Showcasing emerging conceptual and methodological advances in African Pleistocene archaeology.

? Providing reference datasets for teaching and researching African prehistory.

? Making Africa?s Stone Age record accessible to researchers and students based in Africa who may not have access to journal publications where most new field discoveries are published.

The Handbook features 128 chapters, of which 116 are site entries grouped by the host countries and presented in an alphabetical order. A number of those site-related entries examine multiple archaeological localities lumped under specific projects or study areas. The rest of the contributions deal with methodological topics, such as luminescence and radiocarbon dating, field data recovery, lithic analysis, micromorphology, and hominin fossil and zooarchaeological records of Pleistocene Africa. The introductory chapter provides an historical overview of the development of Stone Age (Paleolithic) archaeology in Africa beginning in the mid-19th century, and paleoenvironmental and chronological frameworks commonly used to structure the continent?s Pleistocene record. By making a good amount of African Stone Age literature accessible to researchers and the public, we wish to promote interest in human evolutionary research in the continent and elsewhere.

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This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million?11,700 years ago) during which important human traits, such as obligate bipedalism that freed the hands to engage in creative activities, a large brain relative to body size, language, and social complexity, developed in the general forms that they are found today. The handbook is the first of its kind, and it is expected to play a significant role in human evolutionary research by:

? Collating the African Stone Age record, which exists in a fragmented state along the lines of national boundaries and colonial experiences.

? Showcasing emerging conceptual and methodological advances in African Pleistocene archaeology.

? Providing reference datasets for teaching and researching African prehistory.

? Making Africa?s Stone Age record accessible to researchers and students based in Africa who may not have access to journal publications where most new field discoveries are published.

The Handbook features 128 chapters, of which 116 are site entries grouped by the host countries and presented in an alphabetical order. A number of those site-related entries examine multiple archaeological localities lumped under specific projects or study areas. The rest of the contributions deal with methodological topics, such as luminescence and radiocarbon dating, field data recovery, lithic analysis, micromorphology, and hominin fossil and zooarchaeological records of Pleistocene Africa. The introductory chapter provides an historical overview of the development of Stone Age (Paleolithic) archaeology in Africa beginning in the mid-19th century, and paleoenvironmental and chronological frameworks commonly used to structure the continent?s Pleistocene record. By making a good amount of African Stone Age literature accessible to researchers and the public, we wish to promote interest in human evolutionary research in the continent and elsewhere.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Section 1: Recent methodological advances.- 1.1. Data recovery.- 1.2. Chronometric techniques.- 1.3. Geoarchaeology and isotope geochemistry.- 1.4. Stone tool typology and terminologies.- Section 2: North-West Africa.- 2.1.   Geography and Environment.- 2.2 ? 2.x. Site summaries (20-25 entries expected).- Section 3: Northeast Africa.- 3.1. Geography and Environment.- 3.2 ? 3.xx. Site summaries (20-25 entries expected).- Section 4: Central-East Africa.- 4.1. Geography and Environment.- 4.2 ? 4.x. Site summaries (20-25 entries expected).- Section 5: Southern Africa.- 5.1. Geography and Environment.- 5.2 ? 5.x. Site summaries (20-25 entries expected).- Section 6: What does the future hold for Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa.- Concluding thoughts by editors.