
Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 5
Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology
Clarendon Press
Published on 12. June 1997
Book
Hardback
632 pages
978-0-19-857501-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is the fifth volume in the important Koobi Fora series on human origins, covering archaeological finds from excavations at East Turkana in northern Kenya. Volume 5 concentrates on the evidence from the period between 1.9 and 0.7 million years ago and reconstructs the behaviour of early human ancestors. The book answers such questions as: How were the stone tools made and utilized? How large were the groups of hominids, and how mobile? Do animal bones really give us a true impression of what food they ate? The stone artefacts, bones, and features of the ancient landscape recorded in this book provide a solid basis for further work on human evolution.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous halftones, line figures, and tables
Dimensions
Height: 314 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
2389 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-857501-6 (9780198575016)
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Editor
late Professor of Anthropologylate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Assistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyAssistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Content
List of contributors ; List of appendices ; List of plates ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Introduction ; Geological context and environment ; Sites stratified within the KBS tuff ; Sites in the Upper KBS, Okote, and Chari members ; Site formation processes crania ; The stone artefact assemblages: a comparative study ; The artefact assemblages in the light of experimental studies ; Bone assemblages from the excavated sites ; Three-dimensional distributions of stones and bones at selected archaeological sites ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; References