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Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of the Old Stone...

Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) and What Is Known About Man's Origin and Evolution

Leakey, L. S. B.
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Abstract:Africa of late is rapidly yielding up its archaeological secrets. Besides the activ­ ities of resident investigators, published mostly in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, several English, German, French, Italian, and American expeditions have recently surv eyed other parts of the vast field, with the result that immense authentic collections are now available and in large part published. Dr. Leakey has himself within the past four years issued two detailed reports, respec­
tively on the “Stone Age Cultures” and the “Stone Age Races” of Kenya Colony, and now* seeks, in the light of the newly accumulated facts (including some from Europe and Asia), to restate the entire Old World problem with respect to prehis­ toric man. The bold title of the book indicates the general tenor of its contents and some of the new facts and interpretations may be expected to excite lively discus­ sion.
Beginning with a brief twro-chapter outline of the geological, paleogeographical, and paleontological aspects of the subject, in the course of which he frames for us a new definition of the Pleistocene, his presentation ends with three chapters de­ voted to a historico-descriptive account of the most important human skeletal finds nowf on record for Paleolithic times. In between are placed four chapters dealing with the contemporary cultural remains. The principal aim of the osteological por­ tion seems to be the substantiation of the opinion long held by Sir Arthur Keith that modern man, Homo sapiens, is of much greater antiquity than has hitherto been generally supposed.
年:
1953
出版:
4th
出版社:
Methuen
语言:
english
页:
235
文件:
PDF, 12.05 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 1953
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