Hominin environments in the East African pliocene: an assessment of the faunal evidence / ed. by Bobe R., Alemseged Z., Behrensmeyer A.K. - Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. - 354 p. - (Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series). - ISBN-10 1-4020-3097-5; ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3097-0  Место хранения:   088 | Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Dedication ...................................................... v Acknowledgments ............................................... vii List of Contributors ........................................... xi Foreword ..................................................... xiii A.K. Behrensmeyer, Z. Alemseged, and R. Bobe Preface ...................................................... xvii A. Hill 1. Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene .................................... 1 A.K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe, and Z. Alemseged 2. Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution ........ 25 R. Potts 3. African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change .................................. 51 S.R. Frost 4. Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa: Implications for hominin evolution .......... 77 M.E. Lewis and L. Werdelin 5. Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits ......................... 107 H.B.S. Cooke 6. Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia ................................................... 129 R. Bobe, A.K. Behrensmeyer, G.G. Eck, and J.M. Harris 7. Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments: A case study in the lower Ото Valley, Ethiopia .......................... 159 Z. Alemseged, R. Bobe, and D. Geraads 8. The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery: A case study of the American and French collections from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia .......... 183 G.G. Eck 9. Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments .......................................... 217 D.N. Reed