Publisher's tan cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine. Light green dustwrapper with printed text on the front panel.
319pp. Contains 26 photographic plates and 56 pages of drawings of stone tools, hand axes, picks, beach deposits, pottery shards, bone fossils and digging sites, along with fold-outs and a map of Uganda at the rear.
With a chapter on the Pleistocene Succession by J. D. Solomon and an appendix on The Mammalian Fossils by A. Tindell Williams.
Some chapters include: Research in Uganda before 1935, Cultural Interrelations, Outline of the Uganda Culture Sequence, The Kafuan Pebble Culture, The Uganda Oldowan, The Levalloisian and Still Bay (South Africa) etc.
'Archaeologists agree that the prehistory of Central Africa is, scientifically speaking, of the greatest importance. Mr. O'Brien, leader of the African Prehistoric Research Expedition, here presents his report of the final results. The work done covered the entire Pleistocene period in Uganda, and many Stone Age cultures were found and closely studied.
Important new conclusions on problems of past climates are reached, much data relevant to these and other geological problems having been obtained by the expedition. It is believed that the new archaeological and geological material has made possible a more reliable picture of the Pleistocene period in East Africa than was previously possible, for in constructing the picture not only the new evidence has been used, but all the older evidence due to other workers has been re-examined and re-interpreted.' - editor's note
Binding tight, contents clean, corners sharp. Price-clipped jacket in near fine condition.
- Jacket Condition: Near Fine
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Size: 4to.
