Africa in prehistory. Peripheral or paramount?

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Clark J.

Publication year: 1975

Volume number: 10

Issue number: 2

Start page: 175

End page: 198

Number of pages: 24

URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:0016679839

Abstract

Concepts of the evolutionary history of man the tool maker are now being radically revised by the unique and abundant fossil hominid remains, many of them radiometrically dated, at present being found in association with stone artefacts, food waste and other features on undisturbed living sites in particular at localities in the Rift Valley, together with behavioral studies of the African non human primates. It is now also possible to review and to appreciate better the extent of Africa's contribution, especially that of the tropical savanna lands, to human biological development and cultural and technologic progress throughout Quaternary times. Increasing numbers of radiocarbon dates now show that, far from Africa's having been the cultural backwater during the later Pleistocene that earlier notions had suggested, certain major technological advances appear to have been initiated there.

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