Overview
- Kalb is an expert on the Afar Depression, having studied the area for nearly 30 years, and he was co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy
- The viewpoint here is very contrary to the standard accounts of expeditions in the Afar, revealing many of the personalities and conflicts within the search teams, including an assailing assessment of Donald Johanson
- This is the first book to cover the geology and natural history of this important region
- It sets the research in its historical and political context: the fascinating, often brutal world of Haile Sellassie' s Ethiopia and its aftermath
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
As co-founder of the team that discovered Lucy, Jon Kalb has first-hand knowledge of the research that was involved in the findings of this region and of the intense rivalry that has accompanied those findings. He discusses the political drama of Ethiopia and the effects this chaos had on the Afar. This book covers the scientific discoveries of the area, the author's own explorations and findings, and the political struggles involved with these discoveries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adventures in the Bone Trade
Book Subtitle: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
Authors: Jon Kalb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b97349
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98742-2
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8821-1
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21618-8
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 389
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Archaeology, Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general