دانلود کتاب A Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'

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Contents
Foreword
Part 1
Introduction: Africa is seldom what it seems
Chapter 1. White South Africa and the South Africanisation of science: Humankind or kinds of humans?
Part 2
Introduction: Fossils and genes: A new anthropology of evolution
Chapter 2. A history of South African palaeoanthropology
Chapter 3. Fossil hominids of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Chapter 4. Unravelling the history of modern humans in southern Africa: The contribution of genetic studies
Chapter 5. Fossil plants from the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Part 3
Introduction: The Emerging Stone Age
Chapter 6. The Earlier Stone Age
Chapter 7. The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age
Chapter 8. Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley
Part 4
Introduction: The myth of the vacant land
Chapter 9. The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Chapter 10. Tswana history in the Bankenveld
Chapter 11. The early Boer republics: Changing political forces in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, 1830s to 1890s
Part 5
The racial paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation
Chapter 12. The legacy of gold
Chapter 13. The story of Sterkfontein since 1895
Chapter 14. The SOUTH AFRICAN War OF 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Chapter 15. 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
Index