Homo erectus Groups Made Intensive use of Lake Margin Habitats

[Oxytropidoceras]

Roach, N. T., K. G. Hatala, K. R. Ostrofsky, B. Villmoare, J. S. Reeves,

Andrew Du, D. R. Braun, J. W. K. Harris, A. K. Behrensmeyer, and

B. G. Richmond, 2016, Pleistocene footprints show intensive use

of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups. Scientific Reports 6,

Article number: 26374 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep26374

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26374

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303372868_Pleistocene_footprints_show_intensive_use_of_lake_margin_habitats_by_Homo_erectus_groups

https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/28928

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27662266

 

"Supplementary Material for Pleistocene footprints show

intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups" at

http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2305755/component/escidoc:2305754/Roach_Pleistocene_SciRep_2016_Suppl.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited November 25, 2016 by Oxytropidoceras
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[tmaier]

"ABSTRACT
... Such reliance on near water environments, and possibly aquatic-linked foods, may have influenced hominin foraging behavior and migratory routes across and out of Africa."

Ahhh! more fodder for the "Aquatic Ape Theory"! =-)

For those who don't know about that, The Aquatic Ape Theory has been a hotly debated theory on the fringe of human evolutionary studies. It is based on the idea that our odd features like hairlessness and ability to swim comes from a long evolution in a semi-aquatic environment. This is still poo-pooed by conservative professional evolutionists, but there is a strong and fanatical small group of followers. Now they have even more evidence for their argument! Sally forth! =-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis

Back in the 80's and early 90's, this argument about aqautic influence on evolution used to provoke long and heated arguments in the science groups of the usenet.

[Oxytropidoceras]

What I could find about the skeletal material from Site FwJj14E is:

 

Green, D. J., B. G. Richmond, J. W. K. Harris, E. Mbua,

D. R. Braun, N. L. Griffin, and H. Chirchir, 2011, A new ~1.5Ma

partial scapula from Koobi Fora, Kenya. American Journal

of Physical Anthropology, vol .Suppl 5, p. 149.

 

Richmond, B. G., D.J. Green, D. R. Braun, E. Mbua, N. L.

Griffin, H. Chirchir, and J. W. K. Harris., 2011, New fossils

from Ileret, Kenya, and the evolution of hominin hand

 function, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol.

Suppl. 5, p. 253.

 

National Science Foundation Award Abstract #0924476

Recovery and Analysis of Early Pleistocene Hominin

Fossils and Footprints, Ileret, Kenya

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924476

 

Other material about Site FwJj14E included:

 

Fossil woods from an Early Pleistocene hominin site,

Ileret, East Lake Turkana, Kenya by Marion K Bamford, BPI

Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand,

Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.roceeh.net/fileadmin/download/meetings/Presentations/m_bamford.pdf

 

Hatala, K. G., N. T. Roach, K. R. Ostrofsky, R. E. Wunderlich,

H. L. Dingwall, B. A. Villmoare, D. J. Green, J. W. K. Harris,

D. R. Brau, and B. G. Richmond, 2016, Footprints reveal

direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo

erectus. Scientific Reports. no. 6, Article number: 28766

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28766

 

Dingwalla, H. L., K. G. Hatala, R.  E. Wunderlich, B. G. Richmonda,

2016, Hominin stature, body mass, and walking speed estimates

based on 1.5 million-year-old fossil footprints at Ileret, Kenya.

Journal of Human Evolution 64 (2013) 556-568.

https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/files/downloads/2013-Dingwall-et-al.pdf

 

Bennett, M. R., J. W. K Harris, B. G. Richmond,D. R.  Braun,

E. Mbua, P. Kiura, D. Olago, M. Kibunjia, C. Omuombo, A. K.

Behrensmeyer, D. Huddart, and S. Gonzalez, 2009, Early

Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old

Footprints from Ileret, Kenya. Science. vol. 323, pp. 1197-1201.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1168132

https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8444

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8444/paleo_2009_Bennett_et_al._Footprints.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 

National Science Foundation Award Abstract #1515054

Hominin footprints, fossils, and their context in the early

Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, Kenya.

https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1515054

 

Yours,

Paul H.