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Africa, the cradle of human diversity : cultural and biological approaches to uncover African diversity /

"This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fortes-Lima, Cesar (Editor ), Mtetwa, Ezekia (Editor ), Schlebusch, Carina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Colección:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Engagement Cross-Disciplinary Research in Africa / Cesar Fortes-Lima, Ezekia Mtetwa, and Carina Schlebusch
  • Part 1. Early Humans in Africa. A Southern African Perspective on Human Origins Research between 500,000 and 50,000 Years Ago : Current Dilemmas and Questions for the Future / Marlize Lombard ; Further Notes on the Ngaloba Industry, a Middle Stone Age Assemblage Directly Associated with Early Homo in the Greater Laetoli, Northern Tanzania / Fidelis T. Masao and Jackson S. Kimambo
  • Part 2. Cultural Transitions in Africa. West-Central African Diversity from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, Continuities and Transitions during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene / Bernard Clist ; Ancient Urban Assemblages and Complex Spatial and Socio-Political Organization in Iron Age Archaeological Sites from Southern Africa / Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi and Gilbert Pwiti ; Diversity and Variability in the Preindustrial Iron-Smelting Technologies of Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa / Ezekia Mtetwa ; Grappling with Diversity in Livestock-Related, Non-Agriculturist Archaeology in the Light of Genetic Research into the Lactase Persistence Allele, -14010*C, in Southern Africa / Thembi Russell and Faye Lander
  • Part 3. Genomic Research of Ancient and Modern Populations in Africa. Paleogenomics of the Neolithic Transition in North Africa / Rosa Fregel ; Ancient DNA Studies and African Population History / Mário Vicente and Carina Schlebusch ; The H3Africa Consortium: Publication Outputs of a Pan-African Genomics Collaboration (2013 to 2020) / Ananyo Choudhury, Dhriti Sengupta, Shaun Aron and Michèle Ramsay ; Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective / Cesar Fortes-Lima.