Africa from MIS 6-2 Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments / edited by Sacha C. Jones, Brian A. Stewart.

• Africa from MIS 6-2: The Florescence of Modern Humans / Brian A. Stewart, Sacha C. Jones -- PART 1: Coasts -- Mid to Late Quaternary Landscape and Environmental Dynamics in the Middle Stone Age of Southern South Africa / Andrew S. Carr, Brian M. Chase, Alex Mackay -- Technological Change and the Importance of Variability: The Western Cape of South Africa from MIS 6-2 / Alex Mackay -- Cultural Change, Demography, and the Archaeology of the Last 100 kyr in Southern Africa / Judith Sealy -- Patterns of Hominin Occupation and Cultural Diversity Across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya Over the Last ~200 kyr / Sacha Jones, Annita Antoniadou, Huw Barton, Nick Drake, Lucy Farr, Chris Hunt, Robyn Inglis, Tim Reynolds, Kevin White, and Graeme Barker -- PART 2: Deserts -- Climate Change and Modern Human Occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2 / Nick Drake, Paul Breeze -- Climate, Environment, and Population Dynamics in Pleistocene Sahara / Emanuele Cancellieri, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni, Savino di Lernia -- Technological Systems, Population Dynamics, and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa / Philip Van Peer -- Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Occupation of the Southern African Interior / Sallie L. Burrough -- The Kalahari During MIS 6-2 (190–12 ka): Archaeology, Paleoenvironment, and Population Dynamics / Lawrence H. Robbins, George A. Brook, Michael L. Murphy, Andrew H. Ivester, Alec C. Campbell -- Paleoenvironments, Sea Levels, and Land Use in Namaqualand, South Africa, During MIS 6-2 / Genevieve Dewar, Brian A. Stewart -- PART 3: Grasslands, Woodlands and Rainforests -- Human Evolution in Late Quaternary Eastern Africa / Marta Mirazón Lahr, Robert A. Foley -- Environmental Change, Ungulate Biogeography, and Their Implications for Early Human Dispersals in Equatorial East Africa / J. Tyler Faith, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe -- Follow the Senqu: Maloti-Drakensberg Paleoenvironments and Implications for Early Human Dispersals into Mountain Systems / Brian A. Stewart, Adrian G. Parker, Genevieve Dewar, Mike W. Morley, Lucy F. Allott -- Across Rainforests and Woodlands: A Systematic Reappraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa / Nicholas Taylor -- The Later Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African Rainforest / Els Cornelissen -- PART 4: Broader Perspectives -- The Late Quaternary Hominins of Africa: The Skeletal Evidence from MIS 6-2 / Frederick E. Grine / A Genetic Perspective on African Prehistory / Pedro Soares, Teresa Rito, Luísa Pereira, Martin B. Richards -- Africa from MIS 6-2: Where Do We Go from Here? / Peter Mitchell. 

• Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from our species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the biological development and behavioral florescence of our species. Modern human population dynamics, which involved multiple population expansions, dispersals, contractions and extinctions, played a central role in our species’ evolutionary trajectory. So far, the demographic processes – modern human population sizes, distributions and movements – that occurred within Africa during this critical period have been consistently under-addressed. The authors of this volume aim at: (1) examining the impact of this period of extreme climatic changes on human group sizes, movements and distributions throughout Africa; (2) investigating the macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underpinning our species’ anatomical and behavioral evolution; and (3) evaluating the state of knowledge of prehistoric population dynamics in Africa so that the continent can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological paleodemographic frameworks developed elsewhere. . 

Ämnesord

Earth sciences.  (LCSH)

Ethnology.  (LCSH)

Paleontology.  (LCSH)

Biomathematics.  (LCSH)

Archaeology.  (LCSH)

Demography.  (LCSH)

Paleoecology.  (LCSH)

Africa  -- History. (LCSH)

Genetics and Population Dynamics. 

Cultural Anthropology. 

African History. 

Africa  -- Population. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

QE701-760 (LCC)

SCI054000 (ämneskategori)

304.6096 (DDC)

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