Early Hominin Paleoecology

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An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up?to?date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas. Recent advances in the field and the laboratory are not only improving our understanding of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing specialization of the individual fields of study in hominin paleontology, communicating research results and data is difficult, especially to a broad audience of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and the interested public. Early Hominin Paleoecology provides a good working knowledge of the subject while also presenting a solid grounding in the sundry ways this knowledge has been constructed. The book is divided into three sections—climate and environment (with a particular focus on the latter), adaptation and behavior, and modern analogs and models—and features contributors from various fields of study, including archaeology, primatology, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Early Hominin Paleoecology is an accessible entrée into this fascinating and ever-evolving field and will be essential to any student interested in pursuing research in human paleoecology.

Author(s): Matt Sponheimer, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Kaye E. Reed, and Peter S. Ungar
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 485

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment
1. Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology
Kaye E. Reed, Lillian M. Spencer, and Amy L. Rector
2. Facies Analysis and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology
Craig S. Feibel
3. East African Hominin Paleoecology:
Isotopic Evidence from Paleosols
Jay Quade and Naomi E. Levin
4. Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate
Change, and Human Evolution in Africa
Mark A. Maslin, Beth Christensen, and Katy E. Wilson
Part 2 : Hominin Adaptations and Behavior
5. Early Hominin Posture and Locomotion
Carol V. Ward
6. The Functional Morphology of Jaws
and Teeth: Implications for Understanding
Early Hominin Dietary Adaptations
Peter S. Ungar and David J. Daegling
7. Dental Microwear and Paleoecology
Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar,
and Frederick E. Grine
8. Hominin Ecology from Hard
Tissue Biogeochemistry
Julia A. Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer
9. The Behavior of Plio-Pleistocene
Hominins: Archaeological Perspectives
David R. Braun
Part 3: Analogies and Models
10. Plants and Protopeople: Paleobotanical
Reconstruction and Early Hominin Ecology
Jeanne Sept
11. Chimpanzee Models of Human
Behavioral Evolution
John C. Mitani
12. Analogies and Models in the
Study of the Early Hominins
Clifford J. Jolly
Contributors
Index