Download or read book The Geological Context of Some Early Archaeological Sites in Kenya Malawi and Tanzania written by Zefe Moses Kaufulu and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geological Context of Some Early Archaeological Sites in Kenya Malawi and Tanzania written by Zefe Moses Kaufulu and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi written by Yusuf M. Juwayeyi and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Human Origins written by Glynn Llywelyn Isaac and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the most influential papers of the late Glynn Isaac.
Download or read book Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory written by Michael B Schiffer and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 9 is a collection of papers that describes protohuman culture, pastoralism, artifact classification, and the use of materials science techniques to study the construction of pottery. Some papers discuss contingency tables, geophysical methods of archaeological site surveying, and predictive models for archaeological resource location. One paper reviews the methodological and theoretical advances in the archaeological studies of human origins, particularly covering the Plio-Pleistocene period. Another paper explains the historic and prehistoric development of pastoralism through archaeological investigation. One paper traces the three phases of artifact classification, each being a representation of a different attitude and approach. Another paper evaluates pottery artifacts using a number of basic materials-science concepts and analytic approaches, toward the study of their mechanical strength; and also reviews their use in archaeological studies of pottery production and organization. To investigate archaeological intrasites, the archaeologist can use different specialized methods such as seismic, electromagnetic, resistivity, magnetometry, and radar. Another paper describes various empiric correlative models for locational prediction developed in both contexts of cultural resource management and academic research. Sociologists, anthropologist, ethnographers, museum curators, professional or amateur archaeologists will find the collection immensely valuable.
Download or read book Archaeological Site Formation written by Allan Gavin Thayer Morton and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s archaeologists have realised the importance of understanding the effects of natural site formation processes on archaeological sites and material. Of the many processes that exist, this study looks at sedimentation with regard to lake margins and its impact on the archaeological record.
Download or read book Meat Eating and Human Evolution written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that meat was eaten in increasing quantities, but whether it was obtained through hunting or scavenging remains a topic of intense debate. This book takes a novel and strongly interdisciplinary approach to the role of meat in the early hominid diet, inviting well-known researchers who study the human fossil record, modern hunter-gatherers, and nonhuman primates to contribute chapters to a volume that integrates these three perspectives. Stanford's research has been on the ecology of hunting by wild chimpanzees. Bunn is an archaeologist who has worked on both the fossil record and modern foraging people. This will be a reconsideration of the role of hunting, scavenging, and the uses of meat in light of recent data and modern evolutionary theory. There is currently no other book, nor has there ever been, that occupies the niche this book will create for itself.
Download or read book Towards an Understanding of Site Formation and the Integrity of the Excavated Stone Artefact Assemblage from FxJj 20 Site Complex Koobi Fora Kenya Preliminary Report written by Obed Mukhwana Orao and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone Age Sites in the Making written by Kathy Diane Schick and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (BAR -S319, 1986)
Download or read book Studies on the Tool using and Ranging Patterns of Early Hominids at Olduvai Gorge Tanzania written by Yuki Kimura and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology written by James S. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding early hominid behavioural ecology has been the subject of intense interest and remains a core issue in anthropology today. Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology reveals some of the latest research into this exciting and challenging area, with new looks at old questions. The central topics explored in this volume include early hominid habitat preference and land use, procurement and processing of food and lithic materials, the use of fire, competitive interactions with carnivores, social organization and cognitive skills. Innovative methods and recent data presented here will provide a fuller understanding of the evolutionary ecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. Most of the contributions to this volume evolved from papers presented at the Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology symposium, held at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Toronto, 1993. Contains papers from the Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology symposium Includes new behavioural ecology approaches to the reconstruction of hominid social systems and ecological behaviour Presents an exciting, modern area of anthropology
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plio pleistocene Archaeology written by Meave G. Leakey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the fifth in the important Koobi Fora series on human origins, reports archaeological finds from excavations at East Turkana in northern Kenya from 1969-1979. It concentrates on the evidence from the period between 1.9 and 0.7 million years ago for reconstructing the behavior of early human ancestors. During this research study, new interdisciplinary methods of survey, mapping, excavation, experimentation, and analysis were developed. The study investigated the geology, stratigraphy, site formation processes, technology of the stone assemblages, and associated fauna of the region. This book is a unique record for this time period in Kenya, and this work is a benchmark in the field of human evolution.
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Re examination of the Palaeolithic Archaeological Record of Northern Tamil Nadu South India written by Shanti Pappu and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts developed in the Kortallayar river basin, South India, especially those related to the 'Madras Handaxe tradition' of the Acheulian, and that of the relationship between culture sequences, river terraces and Pleistocene environments, determined the future course of Indian prehistoric archaeology. The present work arose out of a need to re-examine this classic area in Indian archaeology. It attempts to assign meaning to the variability seen in the Palaeolithic archaeological record of the Kortallayar river basin, and to put forward some alternative models of hominid adaptive strategies in the Middle to Late Pleistocene in this part of Northern Tamil Nadu. It includes critique of the terrace sequences proposed by previous researchers, examination of site formation processes operating in the region, regional analyses and the cautious application of an ethnographic approach to South Indian and Sri Lankan hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence strategies and their archaeological correlates.
Download or read book The South African Archaeological Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
