Modern Origins A North African Perspective [Paperback]

Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search.? In this volume, we bring together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa.? The result is a volume that better integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate and at the same time highlights the research questions that are currently the focus of continued work in the area.

This book brings together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa.? It integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate.

SECTION 1. PALEOENVIRONMENT AND CHRONOLOGY
1. A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: the Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea.

2. A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental Variability in North Africa and its Implications for Modern Human Origins.

3. Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North Africa.

4. The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa.

5. New Data from the Site of Ifri nAmmar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb.

6. Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan Aterian.

SECTION 2. ARCHAEOLOGY
7. The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco.

8. Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: the State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Cl'