Human roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

editors

Lawrence Barham and Kate Robson-Brown

Over the last 20 years the origin of Homo sapiens has been much debated with the European fossil and archaeological record used as the testing ground for competing evolutionary theories. The Middle Pleistocene roots of our species have been less well or publicly examined. There has been little formal comparison between the status of research in two critical parts of the globe, Africa and Asia. This timely volume brings together a distinguished list of palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists, currently researching human origins in the African and Asian environments. This unique evaluation and comparison of the status of our knowledge in the two geographical areas is used to suggest the way forward for future and current researchers.

The book comprises contributions from speakers at the Colston Society symposium held in Bristol, England in April 2000 by the Centre for Human Evolutionary Research at the University of Bristol, CHERUB.

contributors include:

L Barham, P Brown, H Deacon & S Wurz, R Foley & M Lahr, J-J Hublin, S Keates, S McBrearty, K Paddaya, M Petraglia, R Potts, G P Rightmire, K Robson-Brown, H Schwarcz, P Storm and W Youping.

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