Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man

by Kenneth P. Oakley

Overview

This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202309606
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	06/15/2007
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kenneth P. Oakley

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One Stratigraphical Dating I Relative Chronology of Quaternary Deposits 2 The Glacial Chronology 3 Interglacial Correlation and Palynology 4 Dating and Correlation by Fauna 5 Palaeotemperatures and Palaeomagnetism 6 Changing Levels of Sea and Land 7 River Terraces 8 The Somme Terraces 9 The Glacial Stages in Latium 10 Pleistocene Subdivisions in Holland 11 Post-Glacial Chronology and Palynology 12 Post-Glacial Baltic Geographic Stages 13 Dating by the Varve Method 14 Pluvials and Interpluvials 15 African Palaeoclimatology continued (a) Ancient Lake-Levels (b) Fossil Spring Deposits (c) Erosion, Alluvium and Colluvium (d) Fossil Soils (e) Aeolian Sands (f) Palaeontological Evidence of Climatic Change 16 Pleistocene Subdivisions in the Maghreb Part Two Archaeological Dating I General 2 Palaeolithic Cultures in Europe and the Near East 3 Mesolithic Cultures in Europe and the Near East 4 Palaeolithic Cultures in Africa 5 Mesolithic Cultures in Africa 6 Palaeolithic Cultures in Asia 7 Mesolithic Cultures in Asia; Fossil Hominid Dating Tables I-XVI

Editorial Reviews

[Dr. Oakley] reviews and evaluates the considerable amount of research that has been conducted during recent years in the closely allied fields of Pleistocene geology (Part I) and Palaeolithic/Mesolithic archaeology (Part II) in the Old World…. [M]eets a very great need in the anthropological literature. This reviewer heartily congratulates Dr. Oakley on his successful achievement. The publication of this book places all who are required to teach the subject of Early Man in the Old World eternally in his debt.” —Hallam L. Movius, Jr., American Scientist “[This book] has already proved its usefulness as a source in the teaching of paleoanthropology at the university and college level and as a reference work in the hands of professional physical anthropologists and prehistorians.” —Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Man “It is doubtful if any other scholar could have brought a higher degree of facility and authority to the preparation of a book such as this. The clear and logical organization and the massive bibliography make it most valuable as a reference work.” —Donald W. Lathrap, Ethnohistory “Kenneth Oakley’s book is a splendid and unique contribution to the temporal aspect of paleoanthropological studies…. Every reader of the book will join the reviewer in expressing deep appreciation for such a worthwhile, indeed important assessment of the evidence bearing on man’s antiquity.” —F. Clark Howell, American Anthropologist “Oakley is to be congratulated for producing a well-organized and useful reference work.” —T. D. Stewart, The Quarterly Review of Biology “[A] most significant milestone for the study of early man; it provides for the first time in one volume an authoritative and concise account of many of the dating methods used today and of the main cultural successions in the Old World up to the end of Mesolithic times…. Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man is a textbook of major importance which brings together for the first time the results obtained from the relative and absolute dating techniques in use today, results that Oakley himself not infrequently played a leading part in obtaining. The book presents this evidence with a clarity that makes it indispensable to all concerned with the research and teaching of paleoanthropology.” —J. Desmond Clark,Science

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