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Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Barba, Rebeca; Egeland, Charles P.
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paperback. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; RBG; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 877.
Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered, the faunal materials so crucial to archaeology and has stimulated much debate unlocking their behavioral meaning are often over the socioeconomic function of early sites. poorly preserved. For example, at Koobi Fora, Influential models of early hominid behavior Kenya, a prolific region that preserves several in the late 1960s and early 1970s were based classic Plio-Pleistocene sites, many bones are exclusively on information from Olduvai affected by poor cortical surface preservation Gorge (Leakey, 1971). ... Read more
Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered, the faunal materials so crucial to archaeology and has stimulated much debate unlocking their behavioral meaning are often over the socioeconomic function of early sites. poorly preserved. For example, at Koobi Fora, Influential models of early hominid behavior Kenya, a prolific region that preserves several in the late 1960s and early 1970s were based classic Plio-Pleistocene sites, many bones are exclusively on information from Olduvai affected by poor cortical surface preservation Gorge (Leakey, 1971). ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400786776
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V9789400786776
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About Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Barba, Rebeca; Egeland, Charles P.
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo is a professor of Archaeology in the Department of Prehistory of the Complutense University, Madrid. He is co-editor of Journal of Taphonomy. He has been the head of research projects on human evolution conducted in Peninj, Eyasi and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), as well as having participated in research conducted in Gona (Ethiopia) and Swartkrans (South Africa). He is ... Read more
Reviews for Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites
From the reviews: "The book is divided into 16 chapters. … The monograph is data-rich, with abundant tables for each studied strata listing species and skeletal part representation, as well as graphical summaries of the locations of each individual surface modification (whether by hominin or carnivore) on bovid long bones. … Deconstructing Olduvai is an ... Read more