Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene

An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3097-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 355 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1173 g

Reihe: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bobe, René

Behrensmeyer, Anna K.

Alemseged, Zeresenay

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Frühmenschen, Hominiden
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Säugetiere (Mammalia) Primaten
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene.- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution.- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change.- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa.- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits.- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia.- Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments.- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery.- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments.- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania.- The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli.- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi.- Finale and future.