[HTML][HTML] Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe

J Saarinen, O Oksanen, I Žliobaitė, M Fortelius… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Guadix-Baza Basin (GBB) in Andalucía, Spain, comprises palaeontological
and archaeological sites dating from the Early Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene, including …

Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution

MH Trauth, A Asrat, N Berner, F Bibi, V Foerster… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The hypothesis of a connection between the onset (or intensification) of Northern
Hemisphere Glaciation, the stepwise increase in African aridity (and climate variability), and …

Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments~ 2 million years ago

J Mercader, P Akuku, N Boivin, R Bugumba… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations,
habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there is a dearth of information to assess …

Large mammal diets and paleoecology across the Oldowan–Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania from stable isotope and tooth wear analyses

KT Uno, F Rivals, F Bibi, M Pante, J Njau… - Journal of human …, 2018 - Elsevier
The well-dated Pleistocene sediments at Olduvai Gorge have yielded a rich record of
hominin fossils, stone tools, and vertebrate faunal remains that, taken together, provide …

Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo

DB Patterson, DR Braun, K Allen, WA Barr… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
It has been suggested that a shift in diet is one of the key adaptations that distinguishes the
genus Homo from earlier hominins, but recent stable isotopic analyses of fossils attributed to …

Paleoecology of the Serengeti during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The mammal and fish evidence

F Bibi, M Pante, A Souron, K Stewart, S Varela… - Journal of Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
Eight years of excavation work by the Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project
(OGAP) has produced a rich vertebrate fauna from several sites within Bed II, Olduvai Gorge …

New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya

AS Hammond, SS Mavuso, M Biernat… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The KNM-ER 2598 occipital is among the oldest fossils attributed to Homo erectus but
questions have been raised about whether it may derive from a younger horizon. Here we …

Hydrologic controls on individual ostracode stable isotopes in a desert lake: A modern baseline for Lake Turkana

K Thirumalai, AS Cohen… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope measurements in lacustrine ostracodes
are widely used as paleolimnological indicators of past climate change. Previous work has …

Orbital influence on precipitation, fire, and grass community composition from 1.87 to 1.38 Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya

CL Yost, RL Lupien, C Beck, CS Feibel… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Turkana Basin in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia has yielded hundreds of
hominin fossils and is among the most important localities in the world for studying human …

Landscaping the behavioural ecology of primate stone tool use

K Almeida-Warren, HD Camara, T Matsuzawa… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Ecology is fundamental in the development, transmission, and perpetuity of primate
technology. Previous studies on tool site selection have addressed the relevance of targeted …