Horn of Africa and East Africa Paleoanthropology

Compiled by Rebecca Rollins

 

Agnew, Neville; Martha Demas, Mary D. Leakey

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2004 The face of Olduvai Hominid 12, Journal of Human Evolution, 46(3): 335-345.

 

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1997 Pliocene Faunal Turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. Science 278(5343): 1589-1594.

 

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1994 Methods of determining early hominid behavioral activities associated with the controlled use of fire at FxJj 20 Main, Koobi Fora, Kenva. Journal of Human Evolution 27(1-3): 173-195.

 

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1979 Hominid Evolution in Eastern Africa During the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. Annual Review of Anthropology 8:71-85.

 

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1978 Harris Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Omo Shungura and Lake Turkana Fossil Suid Record. Science 202 (4374): 1309.  

 

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1978 Strontium Content of Fossil Tooth Enamel and Diet of Early Hominids. Journal of Paleontology 52(4): 928-933.

 

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1988 An isotopic study of a fluvial-lacustrine sequence: The Plio-Pleistocene koobi fora sequence, East Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 63(4):335-356.

 

Cerling, Thure E. 
1979 Paleochemistry of plio-pleistocene lake Turkana, Kenya. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 27: 247-285.
 
Cerling, Thure E.; Donald L. Biggs and Carl F. VondraHarry J. Svec, 

1975 Use of oxygen isotope ratios in correlation of tuffs, East Rudolf Basin, northern Kenya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 25(3):291-296.

 

Chamberlain, A. T.

1991 A Chronological Framework for Human Origins. World Archaeology 23(2): 137-146
 

 

Chamberlain, A. T.

1991 A Chronological Framework for Human Origins. World Archaeology 23(2): 137-146.

Clark, J.D., B. Asfaw, G. Assefa, J.W.K. Harris, H. Kurashina, R.C. Walter, Tim D. White,  M.A.J. Williams

1984    Paleoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 307:423-428. 

 

Clark, J. D.; J. de Heinzelin; K. D. Schick; W. K. Hart; T. D. White; G. WoldeGabriel; R. C. Walter; G. Suwa; B. Asfaw; E. Vrba; Y. H.-Selassie 
1994 African Homo erectus: Old Radiometric Ages and Young Oldowan Assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Science 264(5167): 1907-1910.
 
Clark, J. D.; J. de Heinzelin; K. D. Schick; W. K. Hart; T. D. White; G. WoldeGabriel; R. C. Walter; G. Suwa; B. Asfaw; E. Vrba; Y. H.-Selassie 
1994 African Homo erectus: Old Radiometric Ages and Young Oldowan Assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Science 264(5167): 1907-1910.

 

Cole, Sonia

1954 The Prehistory of East Africa. American Anthropologist, 56(6): 1026-1050.

 

Day, M. H.; Mary D. Leakey; Todd R. Olson; R. E. F. Leakey; A. Walker; Henry M. McHenry; Robert S. Corruccini; D. C. Johanson; T. D. White

1980 On the Status of Australopithecus afarensis. Science 207(4435): 1102-1105.  
 
Dean, M. C. 

1987 The dental developmental status of six East African juvenile fossil hominids. Journal of Human Evolution 16(2): 197-213.

 

Delson, Eric

1981 Paleoanthropology: Pliocene and Pleistocene Human Evolution. Paleobiology 7(4): 298-305.

 

Edgar, Blake

1995 Digging up the Family Bones. “The Diversity of Systematics,” BioScience 45(10): 659-662

 

Frost, Stephen R. and Delson, Eric. 

2002 Fossil Cercopithecidae from the Hadar Formation and surrounding areas of the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution, 43(5): 687-748.

 

Gabriel, Giday Wolde; Tim White, Gen Suwa, Sileshi Semaw, Yonas Beyene, Berhane Asfaw, Robert Walter,

1992 Kesem-Kebena: A Newly Discovered Paleoanthropological Research Area in Ethiopia (in Field Reports: Excavation and Survey) Journal of Field Archaeology, 19(4): 471-493.
 
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1996 Phenetic affinities among early Homo crania from East and South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 30(3):189-225.

 

Haile-Selassie,Y.

2001 Late Miocene Hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature, 1:178-81.

 

Haile-Selassie, Y., Suwa, G. and White, T.D.

2004. Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution. Science 303:1503-1505.

 

Hovers, E., K. Schollmeyer, T. Goldman, G. Eck, K. Reed, D. Johanson, W. Kimbel

1999 Late Pliocene archaeological sites in Hadar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 42(3): A17.

 

Isaac, G. L.

1981 Archaeological Tests of Alternative Models of Early Hominid Behaviour: Excavation and Experiments. “The Emergence of Man,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 292(1057): 177-188.

 

Johanson, D. C.; T. D. White

1979 A Systematic Assessment of Early African Hominids. Science 203(4378): 321-330.

 
Johanson, D.C.,  B. Edgar 
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Kappelman, John; Tom Plummer, Laura Bishop, Alex Duncan and Scott Appleton
   1997 Bovids as indicators of Plio-Pleistocene paleoenvironments in East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution 32(2-3): 229-256.

 

Kimbel, William H.

1994 The first skill and other new discoveries of Australopithecus afrarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia. Nature 368:449-451.

 

Kimbel, William H. 

1988 Identification of a partial cranium of Australopithecus afarensis from the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 17(7): 647-656.

 

Kimbel, W.H., D.C. Johanson and Y.Rak

1997 Systematic Assessment of a Maxilla of Homo from Hadar, Ethiopia. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology 103:235-262.

 

Kimbel, WH, DC Johanson and Y Rak

1997 Late Pliocene Homo from Hadar, Ethiopia. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supp. 24:143.
 

Kimbel, W.H., Rak Y., and D. C. Johanson.

2000 A new hominin skull from Hadar: Implications for cranial sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supp. 36: 129.
 
Kimura, Yuki. 

2002 Examining time trends in the Oldowan technology at Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge. Journal of Human Evolution 43(3): 291-321.

 

Kroll, Ellen M.

1994 Behavioral implications of Plio-Pleistocene archaeological site structure. Journal of Human Evolution 27(1-3): 107-138.

 

Laporte, Leo F.

1980 Human Origins and the East African Evidence. Paleobiology 6(2): 139-140.

 

Leakey, L. S. B., P. V. Tobias, J. R. Napier

1965 A New Species of Genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Current Anthropology 6(4): 424-427.

 

Leakey, Mary D.

1981 Tracks and Tools. “The Emergence of Man,”  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 292(1057): 95-102.

 

Leakey, M.D.; F. Spoor, F.H. Brown, P.N. Gathogo, C. Kiarie, L.N. Leakey, Ian McDougall.

2001 New Hominin Genus from Eastern Africa Shows Diverse Middle Pliocene Lineages. Nature 410: 433-440.

 

 

Lewin, Roger

1981 Ethiopian Stone Tools are World's Oldest. Science 211(4484): 806-807.

Lewin, Roger

1983 Ethiopia Halts Prehistory Research. Science 219(4581): 147-149.  

 

Lewis, Margaret E. 

1997 Carnivoran paleoguilds of Africa: implications for hominid food procurement strategies. Journal of Human Evolution 32(2-3): 257-288.

 

Lieberman, Daniel E.; David R. Pilbeam and Bernard A. Wood, 

1988 A probabilistic approach to the problem of sexual dimorphism in Homo habilis: a comparison of KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 1813, Journal of Human Evolution, 17(5): 503-511.

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Lockwood, C.A., W.H. Kimbel, W.H., and D.C. Johanson

1998 Variation and temporal trends in the mandible and dentition of Australopithecus afarensis. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology Supp. 28: 185.


Lockwood, C.A., W.H. Kimbel, W.H., and D.C. Johanson

1998 Temporal trends and metric variation in the mandibles and dentition of Australopithecus afraensis. Journal of Human Evolution, 39: 23-56

 

Lovejoy, C.O., R.S. Meindl, J.C. Ohman, K.G. Heiple, and T.D. White.

2002 The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking: Applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119:97-133.

 

Macho, Gabriele; Donald Reid, Meave Leakey, Nina Jablonski, Beynon A., 

1996 Climatic effects on dental development of Theropithecus oswaldi from Koobi Fora and Olorgesailie. Journal of Human Evolution 30(1): 57-70.

 

Marean, C.W.

1997 Hunter-gatherer foraging strategies in tropical grasslands: Evidence from the East African Middle and Later Stone Age. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 16: 189-225.

 

McHenry, Henry M.; Katherine Coffing

2000 Australopithecus to Homo: Transformations in Body and Mind. Annual Review of Anthropology 29:125-146.  

 

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1966 The Late Paleolithic of Northeast Africa in the Light of Recent Research. “Part 2: Recent Studies in Paleoanthropology,” American Anthropologist, 68(2): 326-355.

 

Rak, Y, WH Kimbel and DC Johanson

1997 Insights from the new faces of Australopithecus afarensis. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supp. 24:192.

 

Rightmire, G. P.

1975 Problems in the Study of Later Pleistocene Man in Africa. American Anthropologist 77(1): 28-52.   

 
Rightmire, Philip G. 

1996 The human cranium from Bodo, Ethiopia: evidence for speciation in the Middle Pleistocene? Journal of Human Evolution 31(1): 21-39.

 

Robbins, Lawrence H.

1975 Bone Artefacts From the Lake Rudolf Basin, East Africa. Current Anthropology 16(4): 632-633.

 

Sillen, Andrew

1986 Biogenic and Diagenetic Sr/Ca in Plio-Pleistocene Fossils of the Omo Shungura Formation. Paleobiology 12(3):311-323.  

 

Smith, Fred H.

1992 Models and Realities in Modern Human Origins: The African Fossil Evidence. “The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating,” Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 337(1280): 243-250.

 

Tobias, Philip V.

1965 Early Man in East Africa. Science 149(3679): 22-33.

 

Tobias, Phillip V.

1965 Cranial Capacity of Zinjanthropus and Other Australopithecines. Current Anthropology 6 (4): 414-417.   

 

Tobias, Phillip V.

1973 New Developments in Hominid Paleontology in South and East Africa.
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Tobias, Phillip V.

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Tobias, Phillip V.

1998 Ape-Like Australopithecus After Seventy Years: Was It a Hominid? The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(2): 283-308.

Toth, Nicholas 
1987 Behavioral inferences from Early Stone artifact assemblages: an experimental model. Journal of Human Evolution 16(7-8): 763-787.
 
Toth, Nicholas 

1985 The oldowan reassessed: A close look at early stone artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science, 12(2):101-120.

 

Tuttle, Russell H.

1988 What's New in African Paleoanthropology? Annual Review of Anthropology 17: 391-426

Ward, CV, MS Drapeau, WH Kimbel and DC Johanson

1998 New postcranial fossils of A. afarensis from Hadar, Ethiopia. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supp. 26: 225-226.

 

Ward, C.V.; M.G. Leakey, A. Walker

1999 The New Hominid Species Australopithecus anamensis.  Evolutionary Anthropology 7:197-205.

 

Ward, C.V., C.A. Lockwood, W.H. Kimbel, M.G. Leakey, D.C. Johanson, and Y. Rak.

2003 Australopithecus anamensis ancestral to A. afarensis? American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supp. 36: 219.

 

Wendorf, Fred; Laury, R. L.; Albritton, C. C.; Schild, Romauld; Haynes, C. Vance; Damon, Paul E.; Shafiqullah, Mohammed; Scarborough, Robert

1975 Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa. Science 187(4178): 740-742.  

 

White, Tim D.; J. M. Harris

1977 Suid Evolution and Correlation of African Hominid Localities. Science 198(4312): 13-21.  

 

White, Tim D.

1980 Evolutionary Implications of Pliocene Hominid Footprints. Science 208(4440):175-176.   

 

 White, Tim D.; G. Suwa, B. Asfaw.

1994 Australopithecus ramidus, A new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia. Nature 371:306-312.

 

White, Tim D.; B. Asfaw , C.O. Lovejoy, B. Latimer, S. Simpson, and G. Suwa.

1999 Australopithecus garhi: A new species of early hominid from Ethiopia. Science 284:629-635.

 

White, T.D.; Asfaw, B., W.H. Gilbert, Y. Beyene, W.K. Hart, P.R. Renne, G. Wolde, Gabriel, E.S. Vrba

2002 Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 416:317-320.

 

White, Tim D., B. Asfaw, D. DeGusta, H. Tilbert, G.D. Richards, G. Suwa, and F.C. Howell.

2003 Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 423:742-747.

 

White, Tim D.

2003 Early hominids--Diversity or distortion? Science 299:1994-1996.

 

WoldeGabriel, G., Y. Haile-Selassie, P.R. Renne, W.K. Hart, S.H. Ambrose, B. Asfaw, G. Heiken, and T.D. White.

2001 Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia. Nature 412:175-178.