TY - BOOK AU - Barham,Lawrence AU - Mitchell,Peter TI - The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers SN - 9780521612654 U1 - 960.1072 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Pres,s KW - Africa KW - Antiquities. N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Introducing the African record -- Frameworks in space and time -- First tool users and makers -- Early Pleistocene technologies and societies -- Mid-Pleistocene foragers -- Transitions and origins -- The big dry : the archaeology of marine isotope stages 4-2 -- Transitions : from the Pleistocene into the Holocene -- Hunting, gathering, intensifying : the Mid-Holocene record -- Foragers in a world of farmers -- The future of the first Africans' past ER -