Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa : physical and human dimensions /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Other authors / contributors:Knight, Jasper, editor.
Grab, S. W., editor.
ISBN:9781316574881
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Summary:Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.
Other form:Print version: Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107055797

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505 0 |a 1. The context of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab -- 2. A brief geological history of southern Africa / Steve McCourt -- 3. A continental-scale perspective on landscape evolution in southern Africa during the Cenozoic / Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab -- 4. Hominin origins and evolution during the Neogene / Jason L. Heaton -- 5. Hominin evolution in Africa during the Quaternary / Kristian J. Carlson and Sarah Edlund -- 6. Quaternary environmental change on the southern African coastal plain / John S. Compton -- 7. Dating the southern African landscape / Stephan Woodborne -- 8. Glacial and periglacial geomorphology / Stefan W. Grab and Jasper Knight -- 9. Colluvial deposits and slope instability / Greg A. Botha, Arnaud J.A.M. Temme and Rebekah G. Singh -- 10. Desert dune environments / David S.G. Thomas -- 11. Changes in fluvial systems during the Quaternary / Stephen Tooth -- 12. Wetlands in southern Africa / William N. Ellery, Suzanne E. Grenfell, Michael C. Grenfell, Rebecca Powell, Donovan C. Kotze, Philip M. Marren and Jasper Knight -- 13. Sandy coasts / Hayley C. Cawthra and Mark D. Bateman -- 14. Environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene : estuaries and lagoons of southern Africa / Ander M. de Lecea, Andrew N. Green and J. Andrew G. Cooper -- 15. Soils and duricrusts / Jürgen Runge -- 16. Karstic systems / Karin Holmgren and Paul Shaw -- 17. Terrestrial ecosystem changes in the late Quaternary / Michael E. Meadows and Lynne J. Quick -- 18. Faunal evidence for mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / James S. Brink -- 19. Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and Quaternary environments in southern Africa / Marion K. Bamford, Frank H. Neumann and Louis Scott -- 20. Minerogenic microfossil records of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / Jennifer M. Fitchett, Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab -- 21. Development of the archaeological record in southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age / Kathleen Kuman -- 22. Development of the archaeological record during the Middle Stone Age of South Africa / Sarah Wurz -- 23. Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers and herders / Peter Mitchell -- 24. Southernmost Africans, archaeology and the environment during the Holocene / Maria H. Schoeman -- 25. Landscape-climate-human relations in the Quaternary of southern Africa / Jasper Knight, Dominic Stratford and Stefan W. Grab. 
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