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Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression - Hardcover
As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved in the excavations. A participant himself in the "bone wars" that accompanied these discoveries, Kalb recounts the cutthroat competition and back stabbing that were often part of the media-highlighted race to find the oldest hominid fossil. He weaves this story in the rich fabric of Ethiopian society and politics, the plight of the regions peoples, and the international maneuverings for control of the fossil finds.
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Jon E. Kalb is a Research Scientist Fellow in the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas in Austin. Trained as a geologist, Kalb has conducted research in geology, paleontology and archaeology, and he has done fieldwork not only in Africa, but also in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. He has studied the Afar Depression for almost 30 years, more than seven of those spent living and working in Ethiopia.
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"Like the fossil beds Kalb once explored, Adventures in the Bone Trade is crammed with valuable bits and pieces -- some on the surface, some buried deep below." -- Anne Dingus,texasmonthly.com)
...a throwback to the style of the last century . . . informative, amusing, gripping, full of expectancy and denial, replete in political chicanery.... -- Richard H. Benson, Smithsonian Institution
...a throwback to the style of the last century . . . informative, amusing, gripping, full of expectancy and denial, replete in political chicanery.... -- Richard H. Benson, Smithsonian Institution
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- Publication date2000
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