Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part 1 Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment
6. 1 Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology 3
7. 2 Facies Analysis and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology 35
8. 3 East African Hominin Paleoecology: Isotopic Evidence from Paleosols 59
9. 4 Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate Change, and Human Evolution in Africa 103
10. Part 2 Hominin Adaptations and Behavior
11. 5 Early Hominin Posture and Locomotion 163
12. 6 The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth: Implications for Understanding Early Hominin Dietary Adaptations 203
13. 7 Dental Microwear and Paleoecology 251
14. 8 Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry 281
15. 9 The Behavior of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins: Archaeological Perspectives 325
16. Part 3 Analogies and Models
17. 10 Plants and Protopeople: Paleobotanical Reconstruction and Early Hominin Ecology 355
18. 11 Chimpanzee Models of Human Behavioral Evolution 397
19. 12 Analogies and Models in the Study of the Early Hominins 437
20. Contributors 457
21. Index 459