Traditionally, fresh water carbonate research has focused on the sedimentology and
palaeontology of ancient lacustrine deposits. Lithofacies in such low‐energy deposits are …

A dramatic increase in regional summer rainfall amount has been proposed for the Arabian
Peninsula during the middle Holocene (ca. 9-5 ka BP) based on lacustrine sediments …

Although climate change is considered to have been a large-scale driver of African human
evolution, landscape-scale shifts in ecological resources that may have shaped novel …

Astronomically forced insolation changes have driven monsoon dynamics and recurrent
humid episodes in North Africa, resulting in green Sahara Periods (GSPs) with savannah …

The prime-adult-dominated mortality profile of large bovids in the 1.8 Ma FLK Zinj
assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, was recently attributed to ambush hunting by early …

Water and its influence on plants likely exerted strong adaptive pressures in human
evolution. Understanding relationships among water, plants, and early humans is limited …

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 …

The cold and hypoxic environment of the Tibetan Plateau was a major challenge for its
prehistoric human occupants. The earliest known hominin occupation (or visitation) of the …

The phytolith content of 10 samples collected immediately under Tuff IF (~ 1.785 Ma) at FLK
N and other surrounding localities (~ 2 km²) provides a direct botanical evidence for woody …

Hominins evolved in Africa during a period of overall regional cooling, drying, and
increasingly variable climate. Despite prevailing regional aridity since the mid-Miocene, data …