Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

TW Plummer, JS Oliver, EM Finestone, PW Ditchfield… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

S Pederzani, K Britton, V Aldeias, N Bourgon… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human
evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent …

Isotopic biographies reveal horse rearing and trading networks in medieval London

AJE Pryor, C Ameen, R Liddiard, G Baker… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
This paper reports a high-resolution isotopic study of medieval horse mobility, revealing their
origins and in-life mobility both regionally and internationally. The animals were found in an …

When the woolly rhinoceroses roamed East Asia: a review of isotopic paleoecology of the genus Coelodonta from the Tibetan Plateau to northern Eurasia

J Ma, S Wang, T Deng - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - frontiersin.org
East Asia, being the evolutionary center of Coelodonta, offers a unique opportunity to
explore the spatiotemporal paleoecologies of this genus. This study utilized bulk and serial …

Influences of dietary niche expansion and Pliocene environmental changes on the origins of stone tool making

RL Quinn, J Lewis, JP Brugal, CJ Lepre… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
The world's oldest known stone tools discovered at the Pliocene site of Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) in
the Nachukui Formation, northern Kenya, signals a prodigious behavioral change in the …

'We hunt to share': social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition

GJ Linares Matás, J Yravedra - World Archaeology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Early Pleistocene (2.58–0.78 Ma) was a period of major evolutionary
changes in the hominin lineage. The progressive consolidation of bipedal locomotion …

Tooth tales told by dental diet proxies: an alpine community of sympatric ruminants as a model to decipher the ecology of fossil fauna

G Merceron, E Berlioz, H Vonhof, D Green… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Paleobiologists tend to use dietary information as an ecological indicator because diet is a
fundamental link between an organism and its environment. However, the ecological …

Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa

GJ Linares-Matás, J Clark - Journal of Human Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
The extent, nature, and temporality of early hominin food procurement strategies have been
subject to extensive debate. In this article, we examine evidence for the seasonal scheduling …

Seasonality and lithic investment in the oldowan

J Clark, GJ Linares-Matás - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2023 - Springer
Seasonality is a critical driver of resource availability within individual generations and is
therefore likely to have exerted selective pressures on hominin evolution. Nonetheless, it …

Forward and inverse methods for extracting climate and diet information from stable isotope profiles in proboscidean molars

KT Uno, DC Fisher, G Wittemyer… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intratooth stable isotope profiles in enamel provide time series of dietary and environmental
information that if correctly interpreted, serve as archives of seasonal variability in past …