The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar, John Wiley & Sons, £20.95, ISBN 0471252522
WHAT price a few bits of eggshell? If it’s the handful perused by renowned evolutionary anthropologist Richard Klein, you can’t buy them at any price. In The Dawn of Human Culture, co-written with Blake Edgar, he identifies a critical threshold for human evolution between 50,000 and 40,000 years ago in East Africa, by which time fully modern humans had appeared.
The eggshells in question were found by palaeontologists at Enkapune Ya Muto or “Twilight Cave” in Kenya, fashioned into tiny,…
