Lothagam : the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa /

Lothagam : the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa /

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Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
©2003
Description:1 online resource (vi, 678 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Kenya -- Lothagam Site.
Paleontology -- Miocene.
Animals, Fossil -- Kenya -- Lothagam Site.
Animals, Fossil.
Miocene Geologic Epoch.
Paleontology.
Vertebrates, Fossil.
Lothagam Site (Kenya)
Kenya -- Lothagam Site.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126924
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Other authors / contributors:Leakey, Meave G., editor.
Harris, John Michael, editor.
ISBN:0231507607
9780231507608
0231118708
9780231118705
0231118716
9780231118712
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary:Located at the southwest corner of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, Lothagam represents one of the most important intervals in African prehistory. Early human remains are restricted in distribution to Africa and the acquisition of an upright bipedal striding gait, the hallmark of humanity, appears to be at least circumstantially linked to the reduction of equatorial forests and the spread of grasslands on that continent. The diverse Lothagam fauna documents the end-Miocene transition from forested to more open habitats that were exploited by grazing horses and antelopes, hippos, giant pigs, and true elephants. It also includes spectacularly complete fossil carnivore skeletons and some of the oldest human remains.
Other form:Print version: Lothagam. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231118708 0231118716
Standard no.:10.7312/leak11870
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Geology, Paleosols, and Dating
  • 2.1. Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Lothagam Sequence
  • 2.2. Miocene and Pliocene Paleosols of Lothagam
  • 2.3. Numerical Age Control for the Miocene-Pliocene Succession at Lothagam, a Hominoid-bearing Sequence in the Northern Kenya Rift
  • 3. Crustacea and Pisces
  • 3.1. Fossil Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Lothagam
  • 3.2. Fossil Fish Remains from Mio-Policene Deposits at Lothagam, Kenya
  • 4. Reptilia and Aves
  • 4.1. Fossil Turtles from Lothagam
  • 4.2. Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Crocodilian Fauna of Lothagam, Southwest Turkana Basin, Kenya
  • 4.3. Lothagam Birds
  • 5. Lagomorpha and Rodentia
  • Rodents and Lagomorphs from the Miocene and Pliocene of Lothagam, Northern Kenya
  • 6. Primates
  • 6.1. Cercopithecidae from Lothagam
  • 6.2. The Lothagam Hominids
  • 7. Carnivora
  • Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya
  • 8. Proboscidea and Tubulidentata
  • 8.1. Elephantoidea from Lothagam
  • 8.2. Deinotheres from the Logatham Succession
  • 8.3. Fossil Aardvarks from the Lothagam Beds
  • 9. Perissodactyla
  • 9.1. Lothagam Rhinocerotidae
  • 9.2. Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Hipparionine Equids from Lothagam, Kenya
  • 10. Hippopotamidae and Suidae
  • 10.1. Fossil Hippopotamidae from Lothagam
  • 10.2. Lothagam Suidae
  • 11. Ruminantia
  • 11.1. Lothagam Giraffids
  • 11.2. Bovidae from the Lothagam Succession
  • 12. Isotopes
  • 12.1. Stable Isotope Ecology of Northern Kenya, with Emphasis on the Turkana Basin
  • 12.2. Isotope Paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya
  • 13. Lothagam: Its Significance and Contributions
  • Appendix. Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam
  • Contributors
  • Index

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