Olduvai Gorge Vol. 2 - The Cranium of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) Boisei by P.V. Tobias
Olduvai is probably the most important prehistoric site in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien, and Olduvai can show deposits far older. In the last decade the site has produced a mass of new material of the highest archaeological and palaeontological importance.
The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is now 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 Oldowan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included the now famous skull of Zinjanthropusboisei, the earliest tool-making man, the remains of humans and giant animals and a mass of artefacts.
Against this background, in the first volume of the series, Dr Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence, and dating by the potassium-argon technique. Dr Leakey’s purpose is to set out the present state of knowledge of the background evidence and to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
Cambridge University Press 1967
Condition: Excellent, with dustcover covered in plastic.
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Olduvai is probably the most important prehistoric site in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien, and Olduvai can show deposits far older. In the last decade the site has produced a mass of new material of the highest archaeological and palaeontological importance.
The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is now 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 Oldowan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included the now famous skull of Zinjanthropusboisei, the earliest tool-making man, the remains of humans and giant animals and a mass of artefacts.
Against this background, in the first volume of the series, Dr Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence, and dating by the potassium-argon technique. Dr Leakey’s purpose is to set out the present state of knowledge of the background evidence and to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
Cambridge University Press 1967
Condition: Excellent, with dustcover covered in plastic.
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Olduvai is probably the most important prehistoric site in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien, and Olduvai can show deposits far older. In the last decade the site has produced a mass of new material of the highest archaeological and palaeontological importance.
The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is now 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 Oldowan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included the now famous skull of Zinjanthropusboisei, the earliest tool-making man, the remains of humans and giant animals and a mass of artefacts.
Against this background, in the first volume of the series, Dr Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the problems of climatic sequence, and dating by the potassium-argon technique. Dr Leakey’s purpose is to set out the present state of knowledge of the background evidence and to provide a context in which the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at Olduvai can be studied.
Cambridge University Press 1967
Condition: Excellent, with dustcover covered in plastic.
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