Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in Eastern Africa through scientific drilling

AS Cohen, CJ Campisano… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Paleoanthropologists have long speculated about the role of environmental change in
shaping human evolution in Africa. In recent years, drill cores of late Neogene lacustrine …

Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution

V Foerster, A Asrat, C Bronk Ramsey, ET Brown… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

Changes in the cyclicity and variability of the eastern African paleoclimate over the last 620 kyrs

W Duesing, S Kaboth-Bahr, A Asrat, AS Cohen… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is ongoing debate concerning whether or not changes in the eastern African climate,
both long-term and short-term, affected the evolution, dispersal, cultural development, and …

Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals

KG Sokolowski, BF Codding, A Du, JT Faith - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Expanding grassy ecosystems through the late Cenozoic may have driven ecological and
evolutionary change in hominins and other African mammals. However, we lack a …

A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

L Timbrell, M Grove, A Manica, S Rucina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Eastern Africa has played a prominent role in debates about human evolution and dispersal
due to the presence of rich archaeological, palaeoanthropological and palaeoenvironmental …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear time series analysis of palaeoclimate proxy records

N Marwan, JF Donges, RV Donner, D Eroglu - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Identifying and characterising dynamical regime shifts, critical transitions or potential tipping
points in palaeoclimate time series is relevant for improving the understanding of often …

Using multiple chronometers to establish a long, directly-dated lacustrine record: constraining> 600,000 years of environmental change at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia

HM Roberts, CB Ramsey, MS Chapot, AL Deino… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite eastern Africa being a key location in the emergence of Homo sapiens and their
subsequent dispersal out of Africa, there is a paucity of long, well-dated climate records in …

Diverse response of global terrestrial vegetation to astronomical forcing and CO2 during the MIS-11 and MIS-13 interglacials

Q Su, A Lyu, Z Wu, Q Yin - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Disentangling the links between terrestrial vegetation changes and astronomical forcing as
well as CO2 is of great help to understand the sensitivity of contemporary vegetation and …

Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period (s)

MH Trauth, A Asrat, ML Fischer, PO Hopcroft… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The transition from a humid green Sahara to today's hyperarid conditions in northern Africa~
5.5 thousand years ago shows the dramatic environmental change to which human …

Exploring the past biosphere of chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross-species hybridization capture of ancient sedimentary DNA from a deep drill Core

J Krueger, V Foerster, MH Trauth, M Hofreiter… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Eastern Africa has been a prime target for scientific drilling because it is rich in key
paleoanthropological sites as well as in paleolakes, containing valuable paleoclimatic …