Part I Paleoenvironment and Chronology
1 A Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstruction over the
Last 250 kyr from Marine Sediments: The Northwest
African Margin and the Western Mediterranean Sea ............. 3
A. Moreno
2 A Northeast Saharan Perspective on Environmental
Variability in North Africa and its Implications for
Modern Human Origins ........................................ 19
J.C. Larrasoaña
3 Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Nature of
Pleistocene Pluvial Phase Environments Across North
Africa ...................................................... 35
J.R. Smith
4 The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle/
Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa ..................... 49
D. Geraads
5 New Data from the Site of Ifri n'Ammar (Morocco) and Some
Remarks on the Chronometrie Status of the Middle
Paleolithic in the Maghreb .................................. 61
D. Richter, J. Moser and M. Nami
6 Amino Chronology and an Earlier Age for the Moroccan
Aterian ..................................................... 79
J.-P. Raynal and S. Occhietti
Part II Archaeology
7 The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco ........... 93
A. Bouzouggar and R.N.E. Barton
8 Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: The
State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental
Context .................................................... 107
Т.E. Steele
9 Modern Human Desert Adaptations: A Libyan Perspective
on the Aterian Complex ..................................... 127
E.A.A. Garcea
10 Middle Stone Age in Tunisia: Present Status of Knowledge
and Recent Advances ........................................ 143
N. Aouadi-Abdeljaouad and L. Belhouchet
11 The Aterian of the Oases of the Western Desert of Egypt:
Adaptation to Changing Climatic Conditions? ................ 157
A.L. Hawkins
Part III The Fossil Hominins
12 Morphological Continuity of the Face in the Late Middle
and Late Pleistocene Hominins from Northwestern Africa:
A 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis ....................... 179
K. Harvati and J.-J. Hublin
13 Dental Evidence from the Aterian Human Populations of
Morocco .................................................... 189
J.-J. Hublin, C. Verna, S. Bailey, T. Smith,
A. Olejniczak, F.Z. Sbihi-Alaoui and M. Zouak
14 The Upper Paleolithic Human Remains of Nazlet Khater 2
(Egypt) and Past Modern Human Diversity .................... 205
I. Crevecoeur
15 Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin
of Modern Humans ........................................... 221
G. Bräuer
Index ......................................................... 241
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