The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest tool makers to most recent foragers

Abstract

1. Introducing the African record 2. Frameworks in space and time 3. First tool users and makers 4. Early Pleistocene foragers 5. Mid-Pleistocene foragers 6. Transitions and origins 7. The Big Dry: the archaeology of marine isotope 4-2 8. Hunting, gathering, intensifying: the mid-Holocene record 9. Foragers in a world of farmers 10. The future of the first Africans' past.