Lothagam

Author : Meave G. Leakey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231118708
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lothagam written by Meave G. Leakey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.

Author : Meave Leakey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358206677
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sediments of Time written by Meave Leakey and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field.

Author : Luc Laporte
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803273216
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Megaliths of the World written by Luc Laporte and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world, 150 researchers offer 72 articles, providing a region-by region account in their specialist areas, and a summary of the current state of knowledge. Highlighting salient themes, the book is vital to anyone interested in the phenomenon of megalithic monumentality.

Author : Eric Delson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135582270
Total Pages : 2060 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory written by Eric Delson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB

Author : Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942507
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardipithecus kadabba written by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the early hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. This research by an international team describes Middle Awash late Miocene faunal assemblages recovered from sediments firmly dated to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago. Compared to other assemblages of similar age, the Middle Awash record is unparalleled in taxonomic diversity, composed of 2,760 specimens representing at least sixty five mammalian genera. This comprehensive evaluation of the vertebrates from the end of the Miocene in Africa provides detailed morphological and taxonomic descriptions of dozens of taxa, including species new to science. It also incorporates results from analyses of paleoenvironment, paleobiogeography, biochronology, and faunal turnover around the Pliocene-Miocene boundary, opening a new window on the evolution of mammals, African fauna, and its environments.

Author : Hannah V. Mattson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255961
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity written by Hannah V. Mattson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.

Author : Meave G. Leakey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507607
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lothagam written by Meave G. Leakey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the southwest corner of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, Lothagam represents one of the most important intervals in African prehistory. Early human remains are restricted in distribution to Africa and the acquisition of an upright bipedal striding gait, the hallmark of humanity, appears to be at least circumstantially linked to the reduction of equatorial forests and the spread of grasslands on that continent. The diverse Lothagam fauna documents the end-Miocene transition from forested to more open habitats that were exploited by grazing horses and antelopes, hippos, giant pigs, and true elephants. It also includes spectacularly complete fossil carnivore skeletons and some of the oldest human remains. Enlisting a team of highly qualified specialists, this book provides the geologic context and dating framework for the Lothagam fossiliferous sequences, describes the immense diversity of vertebrate fossils recovered from the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene sediments, and synthesizes the results to interpret the changing paleoenvironments that prevailed at this site. The book will interest anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists, and anyone interested in human origins.

Author : Lars Werdelin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520257219
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cenozoic Mammals of Africa written by Lars Werdelin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This impressively comprehensive volume is a long-awaited and worthy successor to the now outdated 1978 classic, Evolution of African Mammals. A must-have reference work for everyone interested in mammalian evolution." David Pilbeam, Harvard University and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology --

Author : Paul F. Whitehead
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139471368
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old World Monkeys written by Paul F. Whitehead and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old World monkeys are the most successful and diverse group of non-human primates alive today. Covering a broad spectrum of topics from molecular phylogeny to population structure, this book is the definitive reference work for researchers, graduates and senior undergraduate students in primatology, anthropology and related fields.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415286046
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology written by Tim Ingold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback, this Companion provides a unique survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. A prestigious editor leads an international team of acknowledged experts in each field.