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Adventures in the Bone Trade The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in EthiopiaỚ"s Afar Depression /

Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. Many of the fossils found in this region are the missing links leading to modern humans. This book chronicles the exploration...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalb, Jon. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Earth sciences.
Paleontology.
Archaeology.
Social Sciences.
Earth Sciences, general.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • An Oceanic Desert
  • Afar Gold
  • The Awash Valley
  • Louis and Mary Leakey
  • Looking for Leadu Man
  • Hadar
  • Transition
  • Famine and Fame
  • Storm Clouds
  • Desert Origins
  • Dawn of Humanity
  • A New Mission
  • An Acheulean ỚSCityỚ<U+00fd>
  • Rebellion
  • The Oldowan
  • The ỚSFirst MovieỚ<U+00fd>
  • The Miocene
  • Crossing the Talalak
  • The Central Awash
  • Baboons and Pigs
  • The Artifact Trail
  • Human Origins
  • Espionage Science
  • Big-Game Feeders
  • National Security
  • African Cake
  • The CIA Lives
  • Prehistoric Feast.

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