Isotopic Evidence for Dietary Variability in the Early Hominin Paranthropus robustus

Science ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 314 (5801) ◽  
pp. 980-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sponheimer ◽  
B. H. Passey ◽  
D. J. de Ruiter ◽  
D. Guatelli-Steinberg ◽  
T. E. Cerling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Dietary Variability ◽  
Early Hominin

A new multidisciplinary age of 2.61–2.07 Ma for the Sterkfontein Member 4 australopiths

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Robyn Pickering ◽  
Andy I.R. Herries
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Hominin

Sterkfontein Caves is the single richest early hominin site in the world, with deposits yielding two potential species of Australopithecus, Paranthropus robustus, and early Homo, as well as an extensive faunal collection and stone tools. Recent advances in uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating of speleothems and palaeomagnetic analysis at Sterkfontein provide the first consistent chronological framework for Member 4 (MB4) and so the interned australopith fossils. Current data suggest that the MB4 deposit and so australopith remains accumulated over at least 400,000 years (2.4–2.0 Ma) if not 500,000–800,000 years. This long period of deposition should be taken into account when studying the MB4 australopith remains and looking at variability in both anatomy and other data such as isotopic evidence for diet.

scholarly journals Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets

2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (26) ◽  
pp. 10513-10518 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sponheimer ◽  
Z. Alemseged ◽  
T. E. Cerling ◽  
F. E. Grine ◽  
W. H. Kimbel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Early Hominin

Isotopic evidence of dietary variability in subadults at the Usu-moshiri site of the Epi-Jomon culture, Japan

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 3914-3925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takumi Tsutaya ◽  
Junmei Sawada ◽  
Yukio Dodo ◽  
Hitoshi Mukai ◽  
Minoru Yoneda
Keyword(s):  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Dietary Variability

Spectroscopic and oxygen isotopic evidence for low and high temperature origin of talc

1986 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Noack ◽  
Alain Decarreau ◽  
Alain Manceau
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Oxygen Isotopic

Origin of the Sudbury Complex by Meteoritic Impact: Neodymium Isotopic Evidence

Science ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 230 (4724) ◽  
pp. 436-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. FAGGART ◽  
A. R. BASU ◽  
M. TATSUMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Meteoritic Impact ◽  
Isotopic Evidence

Early Maize in Northeastern North America: A Comment on Emerson and Colleagues

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
John P. Hart ◽  
William A. Lovis ◽  
M. Anne Katzenberg
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
St Lawrence River

Emerson and colleagues (2020) provide new isotopic evidence on directly dated human bone from the Greater Cahokia region. They conclude that maize was not adopted in the region prior to AD 900. Placing this result within the larger context of maize histories in northeastern North America, they suggest that evidence from the lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley for earlier maize is “enigmatic” and “perplexing.” Here, we review that evidence, accumulated over the course of several decades, and question why Emerson and colleagues felt the need to offer opinions on that evidence without providing any new contradictory empirical evidence for the region.

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