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25 - Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of Early Quaternary Faunal Assemblages from the Nachukui Formation in Kenya: Insights from the West Turkana Archeological Project

from Part III - Eastern and Central Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Sally C. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Bournemouth University
René Bobe
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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The Omo-Turkana Basin is a hotspot in Africa for paleontological, paleoanthropological, and paleoclimate studies. It contains several sedimentary formations spanning the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene distributed around Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia, yielding very rich and diverse records of vertebrate faunas and hominin species, as well as very early, and early, archeological sites (Bobe, 2011; Feibel, 2011; Harmand et al., 2015). During the last decades, researchers from various scientific disciplines have clarified the fine chronostratigraphic scale and the sedimentological and paleoecological context of this area (including isotopes; for example, Negash et al., 2020). Taken together, these data comprise one of the best frameworks for the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of early hominins.

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Print publication year: 2022

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