Olduvai Gorge 5 Volume Paperback Set
Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press
978-0-521-75688-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press
978-0-521-75688-4 (ISBN)
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The definitive series of works examining the findings at Olduvai, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world. Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating in the excavation of this site initiated in 1951.
Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating.
Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon dating.
Volume I. Olduvai Gorge: 1951–1961 Fauna and Background L. S. B. Leakey; Volume II. Olduvai Gorge: The Cranium of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) Boisei P. V. Tobias; Volume III. Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds I & II 1960–1963 M .D. Leakey; Volume IV. Parts I–IV: Olduvai Gorge: The Skulls Endocasts and Teeth of Homo Habilis P. V. Tobias; Volume IV. Parts V–IX: The Skulls Endocasts and Teeth of Homo Habilis P. V. Tobias; Volume V. Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds 1968–1971 M. D. Leakey with D. A. Roe.
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 355 x 480 mm |
| Gewicht | 6750 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-75688-X / 052175688X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-75688-4 / 9780521756884 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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