Modern origins : a North African perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2012]
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| Series: | Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
Max Planck Institute subseries in human evolution. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Paleoenvironment and chronology. A multiproxy paleoclimate reconstruction over the last 250 kyr from marine sediments : the northwest African margin and the western Mediterranean Sea / A. Moreno ; A northeast Saharan perspective on environmental variability in North Africa and its implications for modern human origins / J.C. Larrasoaña ; Spatial and temporal variation in the nature of Pleistocene pluvial phase environments across North Africa / J.R. Smith ; The faunal context of human evolution in the late middle/late Pleistocene of northwestern Africa / D. Geraads ; New data from the site of Ifri n'Ammar (Morocco) and some remarks on the chronometric status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb / D. Richter, J. Moser and M. Nami ; Amino chronology and an earlier age for the Moroccan Aterian / J.-P. Raynal and S. Occhietti
- pt. 2. Archaeology. The identity and timing of the Aterian in Morocco / A. Bouzouggar and R.N.E. Barton ; Late Pleistocene human subsistence in northern Africa : the state of our knowledge and placement in a continental context / T.E. Steele ; Modern human desert adaptations : a Libyan perspective on the Aterian complex / E.A.A. Garcea ; Middle Stone Age in Tunisia : present status of knowledge and recent advances / N. Aouadi-Abdeljaouad and L. Belhouchet ; The Aterian of the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt : adaptation to changing climatic conditions? / A.L. Hawkins
- pt. 3. The fossil hominins. Morphological continuity of the face in the late middle and late Pleistocene hominins from northwestern Africa : a 3D geometric morphometric analysis / K. Harvati and J.-J. Hublin ; Dental evidence from the Aterian human populations of Morocco / J.-J. Hublin [and others] ; The Upper Paleolithic human remains of Nazlet Khater 2 (Egypt) and past modern human diversity / I. Crevecoeur ; Middle Pleistocene diversity in Africa and the origin of modern humans / G. Bräuer.