Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa : physical and human dimensions / edited by Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Stefan W. Grab, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Book
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English
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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xi, 436 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781107055797 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1107055792 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015035034
    OCLC
    923794017
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