The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers

In this comprehensive review, the authors seek first to assess the archaeological and fossil evidence for human origins in Africa, and then to examine the archaeology of more recent hunter-gatherers on the African continent. A growing body of knowledge on African prehistory has demonstrated that the...

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Published in:African Studies Review 2009, Vol.52 (2), p.189-190
Main Author: Johnson, Cara Roure
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Africa
Anthropology and Sociology
Archaeological evidence
Archaeology
Climate change
Evolution
Human development
Human origins
Prehistoric tools
Prehistory
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Summary:In this comprehensive review, the authors seek first to assess the archaeological and fossil evidence for human origins in Africa, and then to examine the archaeology of more recent hunter-gatherers on the African continent. A growing body of knowledge on African prehistory has demonstrated that the three-stage framework of Early, Middle, and Later Stone Ages is a gross oversimplification of emerging hominin behavioral complexity in Africa. [...] the authors reject a three-stage system and instead organize their chronological narrative according to the record of global climate change.
ISSN:0002-0206
1555-2462
DOI:10.1353/arw.0.0190