TY - GEN A1 - Foerster, Verena A1 - Vogelsang, Ralf A1 - Junginger, Annett A1 - Asrat, Asfawossen A1 - Lamb, Henry F. A1 - Schäbitz, Frank A1 - Trauth, Martin H. T1 - Reply to the comment on "Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129: 333-340" T2 - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.04.003 SN - 0277-3791 VL - 141 SP - 130 EP - 133 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cohen, Andrew A1 - Campisano, C. A1 - Arrowsmith, J. Ramón A1 - Asrat, Asfawossen A1 - Behrensmeyer, A. K. A1 - Deino, A. A1 - Feibel, C. A1 - Hill, A. A1 - Johnson, R. A1 - Kingston, J. A1 - Lamb, Henry F. A1 - Lowenstein, T. A1 - Noren, A. A1 - Olago, D. A1 - Owen, R. B. A1 - Potts, R. A1 - Reed, Kate A1 - Renaut, R. A1 - Schäbitz, Frank A1 - Tiercelin, J. -J. A1 - Trauth, Martin H. A1 - Wynn, J. A1 - Ivory, S. A1 - Brady, K. A1 - Rodysill, J. A1 - Githiri, J. A1 - Russell, J. A1 - Förster, Verena A1 - Dommain, René A1 - Rucina, S. A1 - Deocampo, D. A1 - Russell, J. A1 - Billingsley, A. A1 - Beck, C. A1 - Dorenbeck, G. A1 - Dullo, L. A1 - Feary, D. A1 - Garello, D. A1 - Gromig, R. A1 - Johnson, T. A1 - Junginger, A. A1 - Karanja, M. A1 - Kimburi, E. A1 - Mbuthia, A. A1 - McCartney, T. A1 - McNulty, E. A1 - Muiruri, V. A1 - Nambiro, E. A1 - Negash, E. W. A1 - Njagi, D. A1 - Wilson, J. N. A1 - Rabideaux, N. A1 - Raub, T. A1 - Sier, M. J. A1 - Smith, P. A1 - Urban, J. A1 - Warren, M. A1 - Yadeta, M. A1 - Yost, C. A1 - Zinaye, B. T1 - The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits JF - Scientific Drilling N2 - The role that climate and environmental history may have played in influencing human evolution has been the focus of considerable interest and controversy among paleoanthropologists for decades. Prior attempts to understand the environmental history side of this equation have centered around the study of outcrop sediments and fossils adjacent to where fossil hominins (ancestors or close relatives of modern humans) are found, or from the study of deep sea drill cores. However, outcrop sediments are often highly weathered and thus are unsuitable for some types of paleoclimatic records, and deep sea core records come from long distances away from the actual fossil and stone tool remains. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) was developed to address these issues. The project has focused its efforts on the eastern African Rift Valley, where much of the evidence for early hominins has been recovered. We have collected about 2 km of sediment drill core from six basins in Kenya and Ethiopia, in lake deposits immediately adjacent to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites. Collectively these cores cover in time many of the key transitions and critical intervals in human evolutionary history over the last 4 Ma, such as the earliest stone tools, the origin of our own genus Homo, and the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Here we document the initial field, physical property, and core description results of the 2012-2014 HSPDP coring campaign. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-21-1-2016 SN - 1816-8957 SN - 1816-3459 VL - 21 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Copernicus CY - Göttingen ER -