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Modern Origins

A North African Perspective

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Jean-Jacques Hublin

    1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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  2. Shannon P. McPherron

    1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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  • Integrating the North African record into the modern human origins debate
  • Looks at climate fluctuations and aridity in the African Sahara during this record
  • Includes interpretation of fossil material relating to the first evidence of modern morphology?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Paleoenvironment and Chronology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea

      • A. Moreno
      Pages 3-17

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

      • J. C. Larrasoaña
      Pages 19-34

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

      • J. R. Smith
      Pages 35-47

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

      • D. Geraads
      Pages 49-60

    6. New Data from the Site of Ifri n’Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb

      • D. Richter, J. Moser, M. Nami
      Pages 61-78

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

      • J.-P. Raynal, S. Occhietti
      Pages 79-90

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 241-244
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About this book

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.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

    Jean-Jacques Hublin, Shannon P. McPherron

About the editors

Jean-Jacques, Hublin, Ph.D. is the founder of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). He is a leading researcher in paleoanthropology and is renowned worldwide for his work on the origin and evolution of the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. He extensively developed the use of virtual imaging in the study of fossil hominids and has led field operations in North Africa and Europe. Shannon P. McPherron is an archaeologist in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He has published extensively on stone tool technologies and on methods of excavation and analysis in archaeology. McPherron has excavated a number of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in France, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Currently the authors are excavating two sites in Morocco together.

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