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  title info:
    title: Adventures in the bone trade
    sub title: the race to discover human ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression
  name:
    name part: Kalb, Jon E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: "In the fall of 1971, Jon Kalb, a young geologist from Texas, was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to explore Ethiopia's forbidding Afar Depression, long considered a kind of hell on earth." "Although it was geology that initially drew Kalb to the region, it was astounding archeological finds that became the reason to stay. The Afar yielded Lucy, the First Family, Bodo Man, the Aramis Skeleton, the Buri Skull, and some of the oldest and most extensive stone tool discoveries ever made." "Kalb recounts not just the turf battles of scientists but the armed conflict that overthrew Emperor Haile Sellassie in 1974, and the subsequent revolution that steered Ethiopia toward famine, tribal warfare, invasion, and chaos."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Part I: geological formation of the Afar, earth sciences revolution and its focus on the Afar, the authors interest in the region -- Part II: the author's first trip to the Afar, geographical setting and formation of team to explore, further explorations and Lucy -- Part III: early geologists exploration, first rivalries, famine, and life of the Afar nomads -- Part IV: political upheaval, treasure map to fossils, further political upheaval and effect on research, discovery of Bodo Skull -- Part V: Somali invasion, conflicts between research and politics, colonization of Ethiopia -- Epilogue: recent discoveries, return to Ethiopia, the next generation of explorers.
  note: Jon Kalb.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-374) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-et---
  subject:
    topic: Fossil hominids
    geographic: Ethiopia
    geographic: Awash River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Human remains (Archaeology)
    geographic: Ethiopia
    geographic: Awash River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Physical anthropology
    geographic: Ethiopia
    geographic: Awash River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Ethiopia
    geographic: Awash River Valley
  subject:
    geographic: Awash River Valley (Ethiopia)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Fossils
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Commerce
  subject:
    geographic: Ethiopia
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Physical
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
  subject:
    topic: Fossil hominids
  subject:
    topic: Human remains (Archaeology)
  subject:
    topic: Physical anthropology
  subject:
    geographic: Ethiopia
    geographic: Awash River Valley
  classification: GN282 .K35 2001eb
  classification: 599.9/0963/3
  classification: 2000 N-799
  classification: GN 282 K14a 2001
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    title info:
      title: Adventures in the bone trade
    name:
      name part: Kalb, Jon E.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Copernicus Books, ©2001
    identifier: (DLC) 00030837
    identifier: (OCoLC)43903552
  identifier: 0387216189 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780387216188 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0387987428
  identifier: 9780387987422
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040818
    record change date: 20220105142514.0
    record identifier: in00002036477
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng