Recurrent spring-fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene semi-arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya

Sedimentology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1611-1635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Beverly ◽  
Steven G. Driese ◽  
Daniel J. Peppe ◽  
Cara R. Johnson ◽  
Lauren A. Michel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin ◽  
Early Humans ◽  
Semi Arid

Molecular records of climate variability and vegetation response since the Late Pleistocene in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Berke ◽  
Thomas C. Johnson ◽  
Josef P. Werne ◽  
Kliti Grice ◽  
Stefan Schouten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Vegetation Response ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin

Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tyler Faith ◽  
Christian A. Tryon ◽  
Daniel J. Peppe ◽  
Emily J. Beverly ◽  
Nick Blegen
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin

scholarly journals Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist, Rusingoryx atopocranion (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kris Kovarovic ◽  
J. Tyler Faith ◽  
Kirsten E. Jenkins ◽  
Christian A. Tryon ◽  
Daniel J. Peppe
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Dental Enamel ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Habitat Adaptation ◽  
Grassland Habitats ◽  
Discriminant Function Analyses

Abstract Rusingoryx atopocranion is an extinct alcelaphin bovid from the late Pleistocene of Kenya, known for its distinctive hollow nasal crest. A bonebed of R. atopocranion from the Lake Victoria Basin provides a unique opportunity to examine the nearly complete postcranial ecomorphology of an extinct species, and yields data that are important to studying paleoenvironments and human-environment interaction. With a comparative sample of extant African bovids, we used discriminant function analyses to develop statistical ecomorphological models for 18 skeletal elements and element portions. Forelimb and hindlimb element models overwhelmingly predict that R. atopocranion was an open-adapted taxon. However, the phalanges of Rusingoryx are remarkably short relative to their breadth, a morphology outside the range of extant African bovids, which we interpret as an extreme open-habitat adaptation. It follows that even recently extinct fossil bovids can differ in important morphological ways relative to their extant counterparts, particularly if they have novel adaptations for past environments. This unusual phalanx morphology (in combination with other skeletal indications), mesowear, and dental enamel stable isotopes, demonstrate that Rusingoryx was a grassland specialist. Together, these data are consistent with independent geological and paleontological evidence for increased aridity and expanded grassland habitats across the Lake Victoria Basin.

Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole D. Garrett ◽  
David L. Fox ◽  
Kieran P. McNulty ◽  
J. Tyler Faith ◽  
Daniel J. Peppe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin

A spatial analysis of climate-related child malnutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lopez-Carr ◽  
Kevin M. Mwenda ◽  
Narcisa G. Pricope ◽  
Phaedon C. Kyriakidis ◽  
Marta M. Jankowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Child Malnutrition ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin
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