PP31B:
Advances in Paleoecology and Paleoclimate with Emphasis on Contextualizing Human Evolutionary History Posters


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Session ID#: 53019

Session Description:
Paleoecological and paleoclimate data are essential for assessing the geologic context and paleoenvironmental framework of human evolutionary junctures and the origins of our hominin ancestors and non-hominin primate relatives. Geological, geochemical, and paleontological/paleobotanical data are commonly generated by Earth scientists, archaeologists, paleontologists, and paleoanthropologists that investigate a wide variety of continental localities. Dating and correlation of these data require high-resolution age constraints developed through a number of geochronological and chronostratigraphic methods. These practices collectively are the basis for reconstructing past ecosystems, interpreting local paleoclimate, establishing correlations to regional and global paleoenvironmental records, providing age control on evolutionary phylogenies, and understanding causes of speciation, extinction, and morphological and behavioral change. Accordingly, our session invites contributions that focus on dating, correlating, and developing high-resolution paleoecological and paleoclimate datasets. We especially welcome new data and techniques that reflect current research from fossil and archeological sites in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Primary Convener:  Christopher J Lepre, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Appalachian State University, Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Boone, United States and Christopher J Campisano, Arizona State University, Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher J Lepre, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States
Chairs:  Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Appalachian State University, Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Boone, United States and Christopher J Lepre, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christopher J Lepre, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1041 Stable isotope geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1105 Quaternary geochronology [GEOCHRONOLOGY]
9605 Neogene [INFORMATION RELATED TO GEOLOGIC TIME]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lateral facies and paleosol changes in the lower Okote Member (Koobi Fora Formation) at Ileret, Kenya (366170)
Rhonda Quinn, Seton Hall University, Dept Anthropology, South Orange, NJ, United States and Christopher J Lepre, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States
A modern isotope hydrology of the Turkana Basin (445861)
Gregory A Henkes, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Maxwell C Moreira, Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Deming Yang, Stony Brook University, Anthropology, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Elizabeth K Thomas, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States
Reconstructing the Deep Time Critical Zone of the Miocene fossil site of Loperot, Kenya: Paleosol geochemistry and stable isotopic results (380537)
Kevin Kazuki Takashita-Bynum, Watershed Studies Institute, Murray, KY, United States and Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Appalachian State University, Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Boone, United States
Tectonically driven changes in landscape heterogeneity in the southern Kenya rift and evidence for hominin adaptive responses to spatially variable resources. (354833)
Anna Katherine Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian NMNH, Paleobiology, Washington, DC, United States, Richard Potts, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Alison S. Brooks, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University, Anthropology, Washington, DC, United States, John E. Yellen, National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program, Washington, DC, United States and Alan L Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States
A Synthesis of Multi-Proxy Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Methods: The Depositional Environments of the Lomekwi Member, Nachukui Formation, West Turkana (433205)
Melissa Boyd1, Craig S Feibel1, Fredrick K Manthi2, Carol V Ward3 and J. Michael Plavcan4, (1)Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)University of Missouri Columbia, Pathology & Anatomical Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States, (4)University of Arkansas, Anthropology, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Paleoenvironmental comparison of Australopithecus anamensis fossil localities using multiple faunal proxies (447833)
Laurence Dumouchel, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES LINKED TO DRY PERIOD FOCUSING OF GROUNDWATER IN RIVER BED WATER HOLES, NEW INSIGHTS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE RECORDS, OLDUVAI GORGE (376125)
Gail M Ashley, Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Kevin R. Garrett, Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, Brent D Turrin, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, Doris Barboni, CEREGE Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement, Aix en Provence, France and Jeremy S Delaney, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Landscape Evolution and Biogeographic Contexts in the Eastern Sahara Inferred from Geomorphic, Sedimentologic, and Geochemical Studies of Pleistocene and Holocene Stratigraphic Sequences (380465)
Christopher L Hill, National Science Foundation and Boise State University, Geosciences and Anthropology, Boise, ID, United States, Jacek Kabaciński, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Poznań, Poland and Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Kraków, Poland
Environmental Context of the 1.85-1.76 Ma Occupations at Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes from the M5 Section (435375)
Reid Ferring, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States and John D Humphrey, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Geosciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Research of the Vegetational and Climatic Changes of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Transitional Period in the Nihewan Basin (371487)
Yuecong Li, Hebei Normal University, College of Resources and Environment Science, and Hebei Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Ecological Construction, Shijiazhuang, China and Guoqiang Ding, Hebei Normal University, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Shijiazhuang, China
Reconstruction of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) recruitment in the North Sea for the past 455 years based on the δ13C from annual shell increments of Arctica islandica (369873)
Juan Estrella-Martínez, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom, James Scourse, University of Exeter, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Penryn, United Kingdom, Ruth H Thurstan, University of Exeter, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn, United Kingdom, Bernd R Schone, University of Mainz, Institute of Geosciences, Mainz, Germany and Paul G. Butler, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Penryn, United Kingdom

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