Ecology of the past

Mapping Ancient Africa: Literature

A list of references either referenced on these pages or produced during the project.

• Blanchet, C.L., Osborne, A.H., Tjallingii, R., Ehrmann, W., Friedrich, T., Timmermann, A., Brückmann, W. & Frank, M. (2021) Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle. Nature Geoscience 14, 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-00671-3
• Chevalier, M., Chase, B.M., Quick, L.J., Dupont, L.M. & Johnson, T.C. (2021) Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47841.1
• Chevalier, M. (2022) crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets. Climate of the Past 18, 821-844. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-821-2022
• Faith, J.T., Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davies, B., Patterson, D.B., Rowan, J. & Wood, B. (2021) Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.011
• Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, E.T., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Grove, M., Hahn, A., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C.S., Opitz, S., Noren, A., Roberts, H.M., Stockhecke, M., Tiedemann, R., Vidal, C.M., Vogelsang, R., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F. & Trauth, M.H. (2022) Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. Nature Geoscience 15, 805–811. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01032-y
• Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Scerri, E.M.L., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F. & Trauth, M.H. (2021) Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2018277118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018277118
• Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Berner, N., Bibi, F., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Maslin, M.A., Mudelsee, M. & Schäbitz, F. (2021) Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews 268, 107095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107095
• Vidal, C.M., Lane, C.S., Asrat, A., Barfod, D.N., Mark, D.F., Tomlinson, E.L., Tadesse, A.Z., Yirgu, G., Deino, A., Hutchison, W., Mounier, A. & Oppenheimer, C. (2022) Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa. Nature 601, 579-583. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04275-8
• Wu, M., Nikulin, G., Kjellström, E., Belušić, D., Jones, C. & Lindstedt, D. (2020) The impact of regional climate model formulation and resolution on simulated precipitation in Africa. Earth system dynamics 11, 377-394. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-377-2020