Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
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Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Physical and Human Dimensions
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Cambridge University Press
06/2016
450
Dura
Inglês
9781107055797
15 a 20 dias
1060
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List of contributors; 1. The context of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 2. A brief geological history of southern Africa Steve McCourt; 3. A continental-scale perspective on landscape evolution in southern Africa during the Cenozoic Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 4. Hominin origins and evolution during the Neogene Jason L. Heaton; 5. Hominin evolution during the Quaternary Kristian J. Carlson and Sarah Edlund; 6. Quaternary environmental change on the southern African coastal plain John S. Compton; 7. Dating the southern African landscape Stephan Woodborne; 8. Glacial and periglacial geomorphology Stefan W. Grab and Jasper Knight; 9. Colluvial deposits and slope instability Greg A. Botha, Arnaud J. A. M. Temme and Rebekah G. Singh; 10. Desert dune environments David S. G. Thomas; 11. Changes in fluvial systems during the Quaternary Stephen Tooth; 12. Wetlands in southern Africa William N. Ellery, Suzanne E. Grenfell, Michael C. Grenfell, Rebecca Powell, Donovan C. Kotze, Philip M. Marren and Jasper Knight; 13. Sandy coasts Hayley C. Cawthra and Mark D. Bateman; 14. Environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene: estuaries and lagoons of southern Africa Ander M. de Lecea, Andrew N. Green and J. Andrew G. Cooper; 15. Soils and duricrusts Jurgen Runge; 16. Karstic systems Karin Holmgren and Paul Shaw; 17. Terrestrial ecosystem changes in the late Quaternary Michael E. Meadows and Lynne J. Quick; 18. Faunal evidence for mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa James S. Brink; 19. Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and Quaternary environments in southern Africa Marion K. Bamford, Frank H. Neumann and Louis Scott; 20. Minerogenic microfossil records of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa Jennifer M. Fitchett, Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 21. Development of the archaeological record in southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age Kathleen Kuman; 22. Development of the archaeological record during the Middle Stone Age of South Africa Sarah Wurz; 23. Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers and herders Peter Mitchell; 24. Southernmost Africans, archaeology and the environment during the Holocene Maria H. Schoeman; 25. Landscape-climate-human relations in the Quaternary of southern Africa Jasper Knight, Dominic Stratford and Stefan W. Grab; Index.
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List of contributors; 1. The context of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 2. A brief geological history of southern Africa Steve McCourt; 3. A continental-scale perspective on landscape evolution in southern Africa during the Cenozoic Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 4. Hominin origins and evolution during the Neogene Jason L. Heaton; 5. Hominin evolution during the Quaternary Kristian J. Carlson and Sarah Edlund; 6. Quaternary environmental change on the southern African coastal plain John S. Compton; 7. Dating the southern African landscape Stephan Woodborne; 8. Glacial and periglacial geomorphology Stefan W. Grab and Jasper Knight; 9. Colluvial deposits and slope instability Greg A. Botha, Arnaud J. A. M. Temme and Rebekah G. Singh; 10. Desert dune environments David S. G. Thomas; 11. Changes in fluvial systems during the Quaternary Stephen Tooth; 12. Wetlands in southern Africa William N. Ellery, Suzanne E. Grenfell, Michael C. Grenfell, Rebecca Powell, Donovan C. Kotze, Philip M. Marren and Jasper Knight; 13. Sandy coasts Hayley C. Cawthra and Mark D. Bateman; 14. Environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene: estuaries and lagoons of southern Africa Ander M. de Lecea, Andrew N. Green and J. Andrew G. Cooper; 15. Soils and duricrusts Jurgen Runge; 16. Karstic systems Karin Holmgren and Paul Shaw; 17. Terrestrial ecosystem changes in the late Quaternary Michael E. Meadows and Lynne J. Quick; 18. Faunal evidence for mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa James S. Brink; 19. Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and Quaternary environments in southern Africa Marion K. Bamford, Frank H. Neumann and Louis Scott; 20. Minerogenic microfossil records of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa Jennifer M. Fitchett, Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab; 21. Development of the archaeological record in southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age Kathleen Kuman; 22. Development of the archaeological record during the Middle Stone Age of South Africa Sarah Wurz; 23. Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers and herders Peter Mitchell; 24. Southernmost Africans, archaeology and the environment during the Holocene Maria H. Schoeman; 25. Landscape-climate-human relations in the Quaternary of southern Africa Jasper Knight, Dominic Stratford and Stefan W. Grab; Index.
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