A Search for Origins

Foreword Phillip Tobias; Part 1; Introduction Philip Bonner Africa is seldom what it seems; Chapter 1 Saul Dubow The South Africanisation of Science (working title); Part 2; Introduction Trefor Jenkins Fossils and genes: A new anthropology of evolution; Chapter 2 Kevin Kuykendall/Goran Strkalj A history of South African palaeoanthropology; Chapter 3 Kevin Kuykendall Fossil hominids of the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 4 Himla Soodyall/Trefor Jenkins Unravelling the history of modern humans in southern Africa: The contribution of genetic studies; Chapter 5 Marion Bamford Fossil plants from the Cradle of Humankind; Part 3; Introduction Amanda Esterhuysen The Emerging Stone Age; Chapter 6 Amanda Esterhuysen The Earlier Stone Age; Chapter 7 Lynn Wadley The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age; Chapter 8 David Pearce Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley; Part 4; Introduction Philip Bonner The myth of the vacant land; Chapter 9 Tom Huffman The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 10 Simon Hall Tswana history in the Bankenveld; Chapter 11 Jane Carruthers Early Boer republics: Changing political forces in the Cradle of Humankind, 1830s to 1890s; Part 5; Introduction Philip Bonner The racial paradox - Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation; Chapter 12 Philip Bonner The legacy of gold; Chapter 13 Phillip V. Tobias The story of Sterkfontein, 1895-1947; Chapter 14 Vincent Carruthers The Anglo-Boer War in the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 15 Tim Clynick White South Africa's 'weak sons': Poor whites and the Hartebeespoort Dam; Epilogue Bonner/ Esterhuysen.