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Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop.
Edited by Peter Andrews and Peter Banham
The influence of Bill Bishop is reflected throughout this volume, even
though his sudden death stopped a brilliant research career in full
flow.Most of the authors are connected with Bill as research collaborators
and students, or as the next generation of students of these supervisors,
and much of the research reported here has been aided by grants from the
fund that bears Bill's name. The volume begins with an appreciation of
Bill's life and work; the research contributions that then follow are
arranged in three thematic sections, each with a scene-setting editorial
overview:Part 1. Early Miocene of Uganda, including the first full account
and discussion of the recently discovered oldest known hominoid,
Morotopithecus bishopi.Part 2. Middle Miocene to Pleistocene of the Tugen
hills, Kenya, a comprehensive account of the hominids and their
environmental context from members of the Baringo Basin Project.Part 3.
Quaternary Environments, with particular emphases on the English Midlands,
western Scotland and southern Africa.Throughout this commemorative volume,
the determination of editors and authors to place the results of specialist
research into their environmental context is perhaps the clearest indication
of the visionary influence of Bill Bishop.Every paper presents new,
unpublished research e.g. the first full account of the oldest known
hominoid (Uganda), Morotopithecus bishopi; the first integrated account of
the Baringo Basin (Kenya) hominids and their environmental contexts; the
climatic implications of the ages and directions of the dune winds of
southern Africa; new ideas on physical and biological aspects of the British
Quaternary.
Readership/Subject AreaResearchers in these fields at universities and other
institutes worldwide, but especially Britain, USA, Canada, France, South
Africa, Uganda and Kenya. Students of stratigraphy, climatology,
environmental change, physical processes, human palaeontology, (African)
archaeology etc.
276 pages
93 illustrations
19 papers
ISBN 1-86239-034-7
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Publication June 1999
Principle Authors
Dr Dominique Gommery, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Dr Jane Hart, Department of Geography
Professor Andrew Hill, Department of Anthropology
Dr David Keen, School of Environmental Sciences
Dr John D. Kingston, Department of Anthropology & Geology & Geophysics
Dr Darrel Maddy, Department of Geography
Dr Sally McBrearty, Department of Anthropology
Dr Joe McCall, Honorary Fellow, Liverpool University
Dr Laura MacLatchy, Department of Anthropology
Dr Tim Mighall, Centre for Quaternary Science
Dr R. Bernhart Owen, Department of Geography
Dr Anthony Pearson, School of Geography
Dr Martin Pickford, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Professor David Pilbeam, Department of Anthropology
Dr Robin W. Renaut, Department of Geological Sciences
Professor David Smith, Centre for Quaternary Science
Dr Brigitte Senut, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Dr Steven Stokes, School of Geography
Dr Jean-Jacques Tiercelin, UMR 6538 Domaines Oceanaiques
Dr Caroline Le Turdu, Research and Development Department
Dr Richard Washington, School of Geography
Dr James Wells, English Heritage
Professor Bernard Wood, Dept of Anthropology
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