Plio-Pleistocene sedimentation in West Turkana (Turkana Depression, Kenya, East African rift system): paleolake fluctuations, paleolandscapes and controlling factors

A Nutz, M Schuster, D Barboni, G Gassier… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments from West Turkana (Kenya, East African Rift System)
form emblematic syn-rift successions for understanding the evolution of extensional basin …

Seasonality and lake water temperature inferred from the geochemistry and sclerochronology of quaternary freshwater bivalves from the Turkana Basin, Ethiopia and …

AS Cohen, J Manobianco, DL Dettman… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reconstructing past environmental variability at short (annual-decadal) time scales is critical
for understanding ecosystem change and ecological drivers of evolution. One promising …

Before the Acheulean: the emergence of bifacial sha** at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya

H Duke, C Feibel, S Harmand - Journal of Human Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
We present new evidence for the emergence of biface sha** from Kokiselei 6 in the
Kokiselei Site Complex (KS) in West Turkana, Kenya. This rich and well-preserved new site …

Aridification and orbital forcing of eastern African climate during the Plio-Pleistocene

CJ Lepre, RL Quinn - Global and Planetary Change, 2022 - Elsevier
We developed a composite outcrop proxy record of Plio-Pleistocene climate in eastern
Africa using the radiometrically-dated sediments of the Omo Group that preserve evidence …

40Ar/39Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages

D Phillips, EL Matchan, AJ Gleadow… - Journal of the …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
The Turkana Basin in NW Kenya and SW Ethiopia hosts remarkable fossil-rich sediments
that are central to our understanding of early hominin evolution, with interbedded volcanic …

Climate-inferred distribution estimates of mid-to-late Pliocene hominins

C Gibert, A Vignoles, C Contoux, WE Banks… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the mid-to-late Pliocene (ca. 4–3 Ma), several hominin species were present in
central Sahel, eastern and southern Africa. The potential for the discovery of hominin …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an astronomical age model for the Lower to Middle Pleistocene hominin-bearing succession of the Sangiran Dome area on Java, Indonesia

SL Hilgen, FJ Hilgen, S Adhityatama, KF Kuiper… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Well-dated paleoanthropological sites are critical for studying hominin evolution and
dispersal, especially when related to regional or global climate change. For the rich hominin …

Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia

GE Stinchcomb, MJ Rogers, S Semaw - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area in the Afar Region of
Ethiopia arguably contains one of the most complete records of archaeological sites …

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 …