African Paleoecology and Human Evolution - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

PartI - Modern Africa and Overview of Late Cenozoic Paleoenvironments

pp 1-48

1 - Introduction: African Paleoecology and Human Evolution

pp 1-6

2 - Approaches to the Study of Past Environments

pp 7-14

3 - Environmental and Stratigraphic Bias in the Hominin Fossil Record

pp 15-23

4 - Late Miocene and Earliest Pliocene Paleoecology of Africa

pp 24-32

5 - The Middle Pleistocene Through the Holocene of Africa

pp 33-48

Part II - Southern Africa

pp 49-160

6 - The Southern African Sites

pp 49-65

7 - Geology, Fauna, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions of the Makapansgat Limeworks Australopithecus africanus-Bearing Paleo-Cave

pp 66-81

8 - Paleoenvironments and the Context of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins at Kromdraai, South Africa

pp 82-85

9 - Using the Faunal Community to Determine the Local Ecology for Early Hominins at Cooper’s Cave at 1.5 Ma

pp 86-91

10 - The Paleoenvironments of Sterkfontein

pp 92-101

11 - Swartkrans: A Record of Paleoenvironmental Change in the Cradle of Humankind

pp 102-119

12 - Cornelia-Uitzoek: Paleoecology, Archeology, and Geochronology

pp 120-134

13 - The Paleoecology of the Australopithecus africanus Type Site at Taung, South Africa

pp 135-141

14 - Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province: An Early–Middle Pleistocene Paleoenvironmental Sequence for the Interior of South Africa

pp 142-160

PartIII - Eastern and Central Africa

pp 161-460

15 - Hominid Paleoenvironments in Tropical Africa from the Late Miocene to the Early Pleistocene

pp 161-186

16 - Mammal Paleoecology from the Late Early Pleistocene Sites of the Dandiero Basin (Eritrea), With Emphasis on the Suid Record

pp 187-196

17 - The 6-Million-Year Record of Ecological and Environmental Change at Gona, Afar Region, Ethiopia

pp 197-213

18 - The Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia: Geology, Fauna, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

pp 214-228

19 - Fossil Vertebrates and Paleoenvironments of the Pliocene Hadar Formation at Dikika, Ethiopia

pp 229-241

20 - Miocene to Pliocene Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of Galili, Ethiopia

pp 242-255