Table of Contents

Part I. Modern Africa and Overview Of Late Cenozoic Paleoenvironments; Part II. Southern Africa; Part III. Eastern and Central Africa; Part IV. Northern Africa.

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A comprehensive account of hominin fossil sites across Africa, including the environmental and ecological evidence central to our understanding of human evolution.

About the Author

Sally C. Reynolds is Principal Academic in Hominin Palaeoecology and Head of the Institute for Studies of Landscape and Human Evolution at Bournemouth University, UK. She has over 20 years of research experience in the study of African mammalian fauna, past environments and landscapes. She previously co-edited African Genesis: Perspectives on hominin evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012). René Bobe is Head Paleontologist with the Paleo-Primate Project at Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique, and a Research Affiliate at the Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. He has been studying early hominin paleoecology in eastern Africa for the past 30 years, with fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique. His research focuses on fossil mammals that provide long-term records of ecological change.