[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 …

The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena

E Hovers, T Gossa, A Asrat, EM Niespolo… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Current models of early hominin biological and cultural evolution are shaped almost entirely
by the data accumulated from the East African Rift System (EARS) over the last decades. In …

Site fragmentation, hominin mobility and LCT variability reflected in the early Acheulean record of the Okote Member, at Koobi Fora, Kenya

D Presnyakova, DR Braun, NJ Conard, C Feibel… - Journal of human …, 2018 - Elsevier
From its initial appearance at∼ 1.7 Ma, the Acheulean was prevalent through a vast
chronological span of hominin behavioural evolution that lasted nearly 1.5 million years. The …

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 …

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 …

The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya

BG Richmond, DJ Green, MR Lague, H Chirchir… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Paranthropus boisei was first described in 1959 based on fossils from the Olduvai Gorge
and now includes many fossils from Ethiopia to Malawi. Knowledge about its postcranial …

Hominin diversity and high environmental variability in the Okote Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya

R Bobe, S Carvalho - Journal of Human Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
The newly described partial skeleton of Paranthropus boisei KNM-ER 47000 as well as the
FwJj14E Ileret footprints provide new evidence on the paleobiology and diversity of …

[HTML][HTML] Middle Pleistocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of Central Italy and their relationship with hominin migrations and evolution

A Zanazzi, A Fletcher, C Peretto, UT Hohenstein - Quaternary International, 2022 - Elsevier
To investigate the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of central Italy during the Middle
Pleistocene, we analyzed the carbon and oxygen stable isotope composition of the …

Pleistocene animal communities of a 1.5 million-year-old lake margin grassland and their relationship to Homo erectus paleoecology

NT Roach, A Du, KG Hatala, KR Ostrofsky… - Journal of Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
The ecological and selective forces that sparked the emergence of Homo's adaptive strategy
remain poorly understood. New fossil and archaeological finds call into question previous …

Stable isotope analysis of carnivores from the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Evidence for temporally-mixed fossil assemblages

PJ Hopley, TE Cerling, L Crété, L Werdelin… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable isotope palaeoecology of fossil mammals is a key research tool for understanding the
environmental context of hominin evolution in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. Well studied …