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Africa from MIS 6-2

Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments

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Editors:
  1. Sacha C. Jones

    1. University of Cambridge, McDonald Inst. for Archaeological Rsch, United Kingdom

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  2. Brian A. Stewart

    1. University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, ANN ARBOR, USA

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  • Sheds new light on the paleodemographic processes underlying modern human origins, evolution and cultural adaptations in Africa
  • Integrates perspectives from multiple biomes and academic specialisms
  • Will appeal to researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, paleoanthropology, hominin evolution, quaternary paleoclimate and palaeoenvironments, and human population genetics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Africa from MIS 6-2: The Florescence of Modern Humans

    • Brian A. Stewart, Sacha C. Jones
    Pages 1-20

  4. Deserts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Climate Change and Modern Human Occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2

      • Nick Drake, Paul Breeze
      Pages 103-122

    3. Climate, Environment, and Population Dynamics in Pleistocene Sahara

      • Emanuele Cancellieri, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni, Savino di Lernia
      Pages 123-145

    4. Technological Systems, Population Dynamics, and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa

      • Philip Van Peer
      Pages 147-159

    5. Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Occupation of the Southern African Interior

      • Sallie L. Burrough
      Pages 161-174

    6. 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
      Pages 175-193

    7. Paleoenvironments, Sea Levels, and Land Use in Namaqualand, South Africa, During MIS 6-2

      • Genevieve Dewar, Brian A. Stewart
      Pages 195-212

  5. Grasslands, Woodlands and Rainforests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Human Evolution in Late Quaternary Eastern Africa

      • Marta Mirazón Lahr, Robert A. Foley
      Pages 215-231

    3. Environmental Change, Ungulate Biogeography, and Their Implications for Early Human Dispersals in Equatorial East Africa

      • J. Tyler Faith, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe
      Pages 233-245

    4. 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
      Pages 247-271

    5. Across Rainforests and Woodlands: A Systematic Reappraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa

      • Nicholas Taylor
      Pages 273-299

    6. The Later Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African Rainforest

      • Els Cornelissen
      Pages 301-319
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About this book

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out 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 glacial-interglacial- glacial cycle 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) setting an agenda whereby Africa can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological palaeodemographic frameworks developed on other continents.


Reviews

“For anyone interested in African prehistory, populations, and paleoenvironments/ paleoclimates, Africa from MIS 6-2: Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments is a must read.” (Deborah I. Olszewski, University of Pennsylvania)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, McDonald Inst. for Archaeological Rsch, United Kingdom

    Sacha C. Jones

  • University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, ANN ARBOR, USA

    Brian A. Stewart

About the editors

Dr. Sacha C. Jones is a postdoctoral research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. She specializes in the Palaeolithic period, in particular that of North Africa and India. 

Dr. Brian A. Stewart is a paleolithic archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Africa, especially southern Africa. 

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