Modern Origins: A North African Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea....Pages 3-17
A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental Variability in North Africa and its Implications for Modern Human Origins....Pages 19-34
Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North Africa....Pages 35-47
The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa....Pages 49-60
New Data from the Site of Ifri n’Ammar (Morocco) and Some Remarks on the Chronometric Status of the Middle Paleolithic in the Maghreb....Pages 61-78
Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan Aterian....Pages 79-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco....Pages 93-105
Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: The State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental Context....Pages 107-125
Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective on the Aterian Complex....Pages 127-142
Middle Stone Age in Tunisia: Present Status of Knowledge and Recent Advances....Pages 143-155
The Aterian of the Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt: Adaptation to Changing Climatic Conditions?....Pages 157-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis....Pages 179-188
Dental Evidence from the Aterian Human Populations of Morocco....Pages 189-204
The Upper Paleolithic Human Remains of Nazlet Khater 2 (Egypt) and Past Modern Human Diversity....Pages 205-219
Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin of Modern Humans....Pages 221-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-244