A Search for Origins

A study of the 'Cradle of Humanity and its history.

The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted. This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. The multi-disciplinary approach - from a wide range of specialists -is innovative and ground-breaking.

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FOREWORD Phillip V Tobias Part 1 Introduction Africa is seldom what it seems Philip Bonner Chapter 1 White South Africa and the South Africanisation of science: Humankind or kinds of humans? Saul Dubow Part 2 Introduction Fossils and genes: A new anthropology of evolution Trefor Jenkins Chapter 2 A history of South African palaeoanthropology Kevin Kuykendall and Goran S trkalj Chapter 3 Fossil hominids of the 'Cradle of Humankind' Kevin Kuykendall Chapter 4 Unravelling the history of modern humans in southern Africa: The contribution of genetic studies Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins Chapter 5 Fossil plants from the 'Cradle of Humankind' Marion Bamford Part 3 Introduction The Emerging Stone Age Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 6 The Earlier Stone Age Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 7 The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Lyn Wadley Chapter 8 Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley David Pearce Part 4 Introduction The myth of the vacant land Philip Bonner Chapter 9 The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the 'Cradle of Humankind' Thomas N Huffman Chapter 10 Tswana history in the Bankenveld Simon Hall Chapter 11 The early Boer republics: Changing political forces in the 'Cradle of Humankind', 1830s to 1890s Jane Carruthers Part 5 Introduction The racial paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation Philip Bonner Chapter 12 The legacy of gold Philip Bonner Chapter 13 The story of Sterkfontein since 1895 Phillip V Tobias Chapter 14 The SOUTH AFRICAN War OF 1899-1902 in the 'Cradle of Humankind' Vincent Carruthers Chapter 15 White South Africa's 'weak sons': Poor whites and the Hartbeespoort Dam Tim Clynick Epilogue Voice of politics, voice of science: Politics and science after 1945 Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins Notes, references and recommended reading Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Index

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