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

by Lawrence Barham, Peter Mitchell, Peter Mitchell FSA

Book Overview

Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book is a synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521612659
• ISBN13: 9780521612654
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"