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Cultural beginnings : approaches to understanding early hominid life-ways in the African savanna

Title
  1. Cultural beginnings : approaches to understanding early hominid life-ways in the African savanna / J. Desmond Clark (ed.).
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  1. Bonn : R. Habelt, 1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002.
Description
  1. xi, 208 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
Series statement
  1. Monographien, 0171-1474 ; Bd. 19
Uniform title
  1. Monographien (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz) ; Bd. 19.
Subject
  1. Prehistoric peoples > Africa > Congresses
  2. Fossil hominids > Africa > Congresses
  3. Language and languages > Origin > Congresses
  4. Antiquities
  5. Fossil hominids
  6. Language and languages > Origin
  7. Prehistoric peoples
  8. Hominidae
  9. Kultur
  10. Savanne
  11. Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  12. Kongress
  13. Origine de l'homme
  14. Évolution
  15. Hominidés fossiles > Afrique orientale
  16. Africa > Antiquities > Congresses
  17. Africa
  18. Afrika
  19. Subsaharisches Afrika
  20. Afrique orientale > Antiquités préhistoriques
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. pt. A. Early hominid diet and analogues, models and ways of distinguishing the evidences of hominid activity from that of other animal agencies. Ecobotanical contexts for African hominids / M. O'Brien, R. Peters. On the marks of marrow bone processing by hammerstones and hyaenas: their anatomical patterning and archaeological implications / J. Blumenschine, M. Selvaggio. Bone distribution on a modern East African landscape and its archaeological implications / H.T. Bunn, E.M. Kroll, L.E. Bertram -- pt. B. Proto-language. The origin of speech / J. Wind. The emergence of spoken language in hominid evolution / Ph. V. Tobias -- pt. C. Earlier Stone Age assemblages from East and South Africa. On making behavioral inferences for early archaeological sites / K.D. Schick. The importance of experimental replicative and functional studies in Palaeolithic archaeology / N. Toth. The culture-stratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Acheulian sites of Lake Natron, Tanzania / A.A. Mturi. Kilombe: review of an Acheulian site complex / J.A.J. Gowlett. Stone artifact assemblages from Swartkrans, Transvaal, South Africa / J. Desmond Clark -- pt. D. Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age industries and the origins of modern humans. Recent research in western Kenya and its implications for the status of the Sangoan industry / S. McBrearty. Context for the emergence of modern man in eastern Africa: some new Tanzanian evidence / M.J. Mehlman. Chronology and stratigraphy of the Middle Palaeolithic at Bir Tarfawi, Egypt / F. Wendorf [and others].
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. At head of title: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Verbindung mit der Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques, 11. Kongress, Mainz, 31. August - 5. September 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.