Connecting local environmental sequences to global climate patterns: evidence from the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, Ethiopia

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 515-527

  Campisano, Christopher J ^a,b   Feibel, Craig S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australopithecus afarensis; Depositional environments; Hominin evolution; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; BOVIDAE; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 35648972544     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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