Establishment of a Geologic Framework for Paleoanthropology

Editor: L&eacuteo F. Laporte

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A representative history of the ways that geology has, over the last 200 years, established a stratigraphic framework for human evolution. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries an impassioned debate took place about whether humans did, indeed, have a fossil record at all. Once such a record was established, it was then necessary to know where different pieces of that record fit within both the relative and absolute geologic time-scales. Geology also has contributed to the interpretation of the environments that our early human ancestors inhabited, as was first done at Olduvai Gorge, following a half-century of debate. With respect to more recent human prehistory, the collaboration of geologists with archeologists has been critical in determining a Paleoindian chronology in the New World. Should be of special interest to geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, and anthropologists.

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Published: 4/19/1990

ISBN Number: 081372242X

Pages: 74

Product Category: Special Papers