Full Description
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.
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
