A Search for Origins Science History and South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’ 1st Edition by Philip Bonner,Amanda Esterhuysen,Trefor Jenkins ISBN 1868144186 978-1868144181

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ISBN 10:  1868144186 

ISBN 13: 978-1868144181

Author: Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Trefor Jenkins

 A study of the ‘Cradle of Humanity and its history.

The ‘Cradle of Humankind’ (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted. This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. The multi-disciplinary approach – from a wide range of specialists -is innovative and ground-breaking.

Table of contents: 

• Foreword: The Deep Roots of History and Prehistory Around Sterkfontein, South Africa
• Introduction: Africa is Seldom What It Seems
• White South Africa and the South Africanisation of Science: Humankind or Kinds of Humans?
• Introduction: Fossils and Genes: A New Anthropology of Evolution
• A History of South African Palaeoanthropology
• Fossil Hominids of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
• Unravelling the History of Modern Humans in Southern Africa: The Contribution of Genetic Studies
• Fossil Plants from the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
• Introduction: The Emerging Stone Age
• The Earlier Stone Age
• The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age
• Rock Engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley
• Introduction: The Myth of the Vacant Land
• The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and Around the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
• Tswana History in the Bankenveld
• The Early Boer Republics: Changing Political Forces in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, 1830s to 1890s
• Introduction: The Racial Paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and Segregation
• The Legacy of Gold
• The Story of Sterkfontein Since 1895
• The South African War of 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
• White South Africa’s ‘Weak Sons’: Poor Whites and the Hartbeespoort Dam
• Epilogue: Voice of Politics, Voice of Science: Politics and Science After 1945
• Notes, References and Recommended Reading
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements and Credits for Artwork and Photographs
• Index

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