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Author : Mary Douglas Leakey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge written by Mary Douglas Leakey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521334037
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 5, Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds written by Mary Leakey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Olduvai Gorge natural erosion exposed a deep series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artefact and fossil assemblages spanning the last 1.8 million years. The sire ot famous as a rsult of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This volume, written largely by Mary Leakey herself, is the last of the reports and records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai sequence from excavations carried out from the end of 1968 until 1971. The period covered here is from about 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago and th efinds include artefacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in beds II, IV na the Masek beds. The volume follows on from the archaeological record in beds I and II published in volume 3 of the series.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The African Experience written by Roland Oliver and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061528
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites written by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.
Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135132926X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai written by Richard Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest sites at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania are among the best documented and most important for studies of human evolution. This book investigates the behavior of hominids at Olduvai using data of stone tools and animal bones, as well as the results of work in taphonomy (how animals become fossils), the behavior of mammals, and a wide range of ecological theory and data. By illustrating the ways in which modern and prehistoric evidence is used in making interpretations, the author guides the reader through the geological, ecological, and archeological areas involved in the study of humans.Based on his study of the Olduvai excavations, animal life, and stone tools, the author carefully examines conventional views and proposals about the early Olduvai sites. First, the evidence of site geology, tool cut marks, and other clues to the formation of the Olduvai sites are explored. On this basis, the large mammal communities in which early hominids lived are investigated, using methods which compare sites produced mainly by hominids with others made by carnivores. Questions about hominid hunting, scavenging, and the importance of eating meat are then scrutinized. The leading alternative positions on each issue are discussed, providing a basis for understanding some of the most contentious debates in paleo-anthropology today.The dominant interpretive model for the artifact and bone accumulations at Olduvai and other Plio-Pleistocene sites has been that they represent home bases, social foci similar to the campsites of hunter-gatherers. Based on paleo-ecological evidence and ecological models, the author critically analyzes the home base interpretation and proposes alternative views. A new view of the Olduvai sites - that they represent stone caches where hominids processed carcasses for food - is shown to have important implications for our understanding of hominid social behavior and evolution.
Author : L. S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052105527X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 1 written by L. S. B. Leakey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating. The purpose of this volume is to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
Author : Todd K. Shackelford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319196497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science written by Todd K. Shackelford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, twelve volume reference work reflects the interdisciplinary influences on evolutionary psychology and serves as a major resource for its history, scientific contributors and theories. It draws on biology, cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, economics, computer science and paleoarchaeology to provide a multifaceted picture of behavioral adaptation in humans and how it adds to our academic and clinical understanding. Edited by a noted figure in evolutionary psychology, with many seminal and renowned contributors, this encyclopedia offers the full breadth of an area that is the forefront of behavioral thinking and investigation.
Author : M. D. Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521077230
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963 written by M. D. Leakey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-11-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of the definitive publication of the remains of early man found at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.
Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
ISBN 13 : 9781612421179
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - Hugo and Nebula Winner written by Mike Resnick and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is one of the most celebrated novellas ever written. It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the HOMer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was also nominated for a number of international awards, winning the Ignotus and the Universitat Polytechnica Awards in Spain, the Prix Ozone Award in France and the Futura Award in Croatia. **** In the far future, eons after the demise of Humanity and its far-flung galactic empire, a group of alien archeologists visits Earth to uncover the secret of the dead race's initial overwhelming success and its ultimate death. **** Digging through layers of archeological strata at Olduvai Gorge, they discover seven unique artifacts, each related to a different era of humanity's history and each telling a unique story about humankind's strengths and weaknesses. **** But are they prepared for their final discovery, which will change their worlds forever?
Author : P. V. Tobias
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521069017
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge: Volume 2 written by P. V. Tobias and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1967-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this second volume of the definitive publication of the Olduvai findings, Professor Tobias has undertaken a definitive analysis of the cranium.
Author : Richard LeRoy Hay
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5885053340
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Geology of the Olduvai Gorge written by Richard LeRoy Hay and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1976 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Hay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520334221
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Geology of the Olduvai Gorge written by Richard Hay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022924
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Stone Tools and Fossil Bones written by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.
Author : Virginia Morell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439143870
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Ancestral Passions written by Virginia Morell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. In this fascinating and authoritative work, acclaimed science writer Virginia Morell brings to vivid life the famous and infamous Leakey family, pioneers in the field of paleoanthropology: Louis Leakey, the patriarch, who persisted through initial scientific failures and scandal-ridden divorce to achieve spectacular success in digs throughout East Africa; Mary, his second wife, who worked alongside Louis as they made their outstanding discoveries at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere; and Richard, their son, who ascended to the top of the field in his parents’ wake, only to be threatened with both near-fatal illness and fierce professional rivalry. Morell transports us into the world of these compelling personalities, demonstrating how a small clan of highly talented and fiercely competitive people came to dominate an entire field of science and to contribute immeasurably to our understanding of the origins of humanity.
Author : Steve Bull
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460206894
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Olduvai written by Steve Bull and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a global economic, social, and political collapse imminent? Flowing from actual world events, a damaged environment, dwindling energy resources, and a manipulated market-economy all come crashing together in this tale about the social and individual impact of stresses that overwhelm a precarious and complex global system. Supply chain interruptions, border disputes, increased fascism, growing protest movements, and mass migration out of rural areas and into cities dominate the new normal. Follow the struggles of several Canadians amidst the chaos. Marissa, a young university student, confronting the end of her prescription for a mental health issue, and her eight year old sister, Kat, who are stranded in a remote part of Ontario when their parents are caught up in a massive riot in Toronto; Mac, a mature student at Lethbridge College, Alberta, who uncovers a Canadian military secret; Ranjeet, a recently promoted Toronto banker who has his faith in the banking system turned upside down when a colleague shares some startling information; and Sam, an activist who has predicted the collapse for years, but has his preparations challenged by an unexpected Black Swan event. Is this the world's future'...
Author : Mary Leakey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521105200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Olduvai Gorge written by Mary Leakey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, natural erosion exposed a series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artifacts and fossil assemblages spanning the past 1.8 million years. The site is famous as a result of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This book records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai Gorge sequence, covering the period 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago, and includes artifacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds.
Author : V. Paul Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144430450X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Calcretes written by V. Paul Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calcretes are an important component of many ancient fluvial, lacustrine and shallow-marine carbonate sequences, and they are widely developed in many parts of the world at the present time. Calcretes are useful to the earth scientist involved in reconstructing ancient environments, palaeoclimates and palaeographics, and they may also reveal details of soil biota and chemistry. Over the last two decades the journal Sedimentology has published a number of articles on this subject and a compilation of them is presented here. In addition to the five main sections, this volume also includes an introduction to the subject that offers a review of recent work on calcretes. The collection of papers illustrates the range of calcrete occurrences and the great variety of textures and fabrics. This volume is authored and edited by experts and will serve as more than an introduction to the subject for geologists, soil scientists and geographers. If you are a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see: http://www.iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=RP2
