African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Paleoanthropology Africa
LJ McHenry, IG Stanistreet, H Stollhofen, J Njau, N Toth… – Palaeogeography …, 2020
… A. Map of East Africa, showing location of Olduvai Gorge … Over the past decade, researchers with an interest in the paleoecology of hominin evolution have drilled and recovered cores from paleolakes in the East African Rift to acquire detailed lacustrine paleoenvironmental …
Archaeology Africa
Palaeosalinity and palaeoclimatic geochemical proxies (elements Ti, Mg, Al) vary with Milankovitch cyclicity (1.3 to 2.0 Ma), OGCP cores, Palaeolake Olduvai, Tanzania
I. G. Stanistreet, J. F. Boyle, H. Stollhofen, D. M. Deocampo, J. K. Njau. (2020). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Article Number 109656, Available online 13 February 2020.
The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya
B. G. Richmond, D. J. Green, M. R. Lague, H. Chirchir, D. R. Braun . (2020). Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 141, Article Number 102727, April 2020.