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The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond

Rosalia Gallotti , Margherita Mussi

This edited volume presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa, and addresses three main areas of focus; 1) the tempo and mode of technological changes that led to the emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa;...



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Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals

Lawrence J. Flynn , Wen-Yu Wu

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.  These played a role in the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a modern science in that country.This second volume of the sub-series Late...



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Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

Katerina Harvati , Mirjana Roksandic

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose...



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Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry

Radu Iovita , Katsuhiro Sano

The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance. New archaeological...



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Africa from MIS 6-2

Sacha C. Jones , Brian A. Stewart

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2...



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The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis

Yohannes Haile-Selassie , Denise F. Su

This volume describes a 3.6 million-years-old partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis from the Woranso-Mille, central Afar, Ethiopia.This specimen is the first adult partial skeleton to be recovered since Lucy’s (A.L. 288-1) discovery in 1974. It is older than...



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The Central European Magdalenian

Andreas Maier

This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period. It sheds new light on five regional groups between the Rhône valley to the west and the Vistula-valley to the east, which existed...



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Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins

Jamie L. Clark , John D. Speth

Recent genetic data showing that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans have made it clear that deeper insight into the behavioral differences between these populations will be critical to understanding the rapid spread of modern humans and the demise of the...



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The Paleobiology of Australopithecus

John G Fleagle , Richard E Leakey , Kaye E. Reed

Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925. This volume synthesizes the geological and paleontological context of the species in East and South...



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Modern Origins

Jean-Jacques Hublin , Shannon P. Mcpherron

Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search.  In this volume, we bring...



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