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Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the
story of the major discoveries which have been made and the
attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten
decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
For anyone interested in man's past and in understanding the
significance of each new discovery relating to human evolution,
this reissue will be of great value.
Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the
story of the major discoveries which have been made and the
attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten
decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
For anyone interested in man's past and in understanding the
significance of each new discovery relating to human evolution,
this reissue will be of great value.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
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Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the
world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable
importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older.
The site has produced a mass of material of the highest
archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of
five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary
reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in
1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a
series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of
the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and
far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of tools and
artefacts, small animal and human remains and the famous skull of
Zinjanthropus boisei, the earliest tool-making man. Against this
background Leakey and his collaborators discuss the geological
evidence, its relation to the fauna and other fossil evidence, the
problems of climatic sequence and the use of potassium-argon
dating. The purpose of this volume is to provide a context in which
the fossil human remains and the Stone Age cultural sequence at
Olduvai can be studied.
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-72) was a British archaeologist,
naturalist and palaeoanthropologist who made a significant
contribution to the study of human evolutionary development. First
published in 1931, this work presents the results of two periods of
excavation by the East African Archaeological Expedition during
1926-7 and 1928-9. As noted in the preface, the findings of these
excavations enabled the Expedition 'to work out a number of clear
subdivisions in Pleistocene and recent times, based upon climatic
changes, and to establish in most cases the relation of the
cultures found to these time divisions.' The text contains numerous
illustrative figures, including original drawings and photographs.
Numerous appendices are also included. This book will be of value
to anyone with an interest in archaeology, anthropology and East
Africa.
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