PP23A:
From Mud and Dust to Curves and Concepts: New Findings on the Environmental Context of Human Evolution Posters
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Session ID#: 13519
Session Description:
Environmental change is considered an important driver for human evolution and dispersal as well as for key cultural and technological innovations. The evaluation of the impact that climatic shifts on different timescales might have had on the living conditions of prehistoric humans is one of the cornerstones in current research, but crucially depends on reliable and continuous paleo-environmental data from the vicinity of paleo-anthropological and archaeological sites. The conveners encourage interdisciplinary teams to submit abstracts on their project’s research that contributes to an enhanced understanding of these human-climate interactions by interpreting and linking new findings from outcrop geology, lacustrine, and marine sediments. We hope this session will appeal to a broad audience by highlighting the latest research on paleo-environmental reconstructions in the vicinity of key records of human evolution, showcasing a wide variety of analytical methods, and encouraging collaboration between research groups.
Primary Convener: Annett Junginger, University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany
Conveners: Verena E Foerster, University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany, Catherine C Beck, Hamilton College, Geosciences, Clinton, United States and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Chairs: Annett Junginger, University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, Verena E Foerster, University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany and Catherine C Beck, Hamilton College, Geosciences, Clinton, United States
OSPA Liaison: Annett Junginger, University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Richard Potts, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
Frank Schaebitz1, Asfawossen Asrat2, Henry F. Lamb3, Martin H Trauth4, Annett Junginger5, Verena E Foerster1, Cristina Guenter4, Finn A. Viehberg6, Janna Just7, Helen M. Roberts3, Melissa S Chapot3, Melanie J Leng8, Jonathan Dean9, Jonathan Dean9 and Andrew S Cohen10, (1)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany, (2)Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (3)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (4)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (6)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (7)University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Cologne, Germany, (8)British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (9)University of Nottingham, Beeston, United Kingdom, (10)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Annett Junginger1, Hubert Vonhof2, Verena E Foerster3, Asfawossen Asrat4, Andrew S Cohen5, Henry F. Lamb6, Frank Schaebitz3 and Martin H Trauth7, (1)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany, (4)Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, (6)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (7)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Verena E Foerster1, Asfawossen Asrat2, Andrew S Cohen3, Annett Junginger4, Henry F. Lamb5, Frank Schaebitz1, Martin H Trauth6 and Ralf Vogelsang7, (1)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany, (2)Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, (4)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (5)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (6)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Cologne, Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Cologne, Germany
Karim Eli Minkara1, Nathan Michael Rabideaux1, Daniel Deocampo2, John Kingston3 and Andrew S Cohen4, (1)Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia State University, Department of Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Rachel Lupien, Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, James M Russell, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Craig S Feibel, Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Catherine Beck, Hamilton College, Geosciences, Clinton, NY, United States and Isla S. Castañeda, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States
Josef P Werne, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Troy M Ferland, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States, Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Tim K Lowenstein, Binghamton University, Department of Earth Sciences, Binghamton, United States, Daniel Deocampo, Georgia State University, Department of Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, Robin Renaut, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Owen Richard Bernhart, Chiang Mai University, Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Simon C Brassell1, Devon E. Concord1, Andrea Shilling2, Katherine H Freeman3, Jackson K Njau1,4, Ian G Stanistreet4,5, Harald Stollhofen6, Kathy D Schick4 and Nicholas P Toth4, (1)Indiana University, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Indiana University, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (4)Indiana University Bloomington, The Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, IN, United States, (5)University of Liverpool, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (6)University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Rob Lee Allen, Retired, Willis, TX, United States
