PP24A:
Advances in Paleoecology and Paleoclimate with Emphasis on Contextualizing Human Evolutionary History I
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Session ID#: 63528
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
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Bernard A Wood, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
Lauren A Michel1, Kieran P McNulty2, Thomas Lehmann3, Kimberly Cheng1, Rachel L. Chan4, David L. Fox5 and Daniel J Peppe6, (1)Tennessee Technological University, Earth Sciences, Cookeville, TN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Anthropology, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Department Messel Research and Mammalogy, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Tennessee Technological University, Chemistry, Cookeville, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (6)Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States
Pratigya J Polissar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleoenvironment, Palisades, NY, United States, Cassaundra Rose, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Science, Palisades, NY, United States, Kevin T Uno, Harvard University, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, Samuel R Phelps, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, United States and Peter B deMenocal, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Lea Rausch1, Hülya Alçiçek2, Hemmo Abels3, Amelie Vialet4, Nicolas Boulbes4, Serdar Mayda5, Sylvain Charbonier6, Marius Stoica1, Yeşim Büyükmeriç7, Anne-Marie Moigne4, Alexey Tesakov8, Frank P. Wesselingh9, Vadim Titov10 and M. Cihat Alçiçek2, (1)University of Bucharest, Department of Geology, Bucharest, Romania, (2)Pamukkale University Denizli, Department of Geology, Denizli, Turkey, (3)Universiteit Utrecht, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Homme & Environnement, Paris, France, (5)Ege University, Department of Biology, Izmir, Turkey, (6)Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Origines & Evolution, Paris, France, (7)Bülent Ecevit University, Department of Geology, Zonguldak, Turkey, (8)Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (9)Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands, (10)Institute of Arid zones SSC RAS, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Richard Potts, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Anna Katherine Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian NMNH, Paleobiology, Washington, DC, United States and Alan L Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States
Kerstin Braun1, Miryam Bar-Matthews2, Alan Matthews3, Avner Ayalon4, Richard M Cowling5, Andy IR Herries6 and Curtis W Marean1, (1)Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, United States, (2)Geological Survey Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (5)Nelson Mandela University, African Centre for Coastal Palaeosciences, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, (6)La Trobe University, The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Bundoora (Melbourne), Australia
Christian A Tryon1, Jason E. Lewis2, Kathryn L. Ranhorn3, Elizabeth M Niespolo4,5, Warren D. Sharp5, Rhonda Quinn6 and J. Tyler Faith7, (1)Harvard University, Anthropology Department, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Seton Hall University, Dept Anthropology, South Orange, NJ, United States, (7)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
