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Publications by Anthropology staff at the California Academy of Sciences.

2024 Braje, T.J. Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

2024 Braje, T.J., Vokhshoori, N., Groves, L.T. Pleistocene to Holocene continuity and discontinuity in California Northern Channel Island marine invertebrate communities. Quaternary Science Advances 13:100167. DOI:10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100167.

2024 Davies, T.W., Gunz, P., Spoor, F., Alemseged, Z., Gidna, A., Hublin, J.-J., Kimbel, W.H., Kullmer, O., Plummer, W.P., Zanolli, C., Skinner, M.M., 2024. Dental morphology in Homo habilis and its implications for the evolution of early Homo. Nat Commun. 15, 286.

2023 M Zimmermann, M., Byrd, B.F., Engbring, L., Eerkens, J.W., Arellano, M.V., Leventhal, A.M., Grant, D., DiGuiseppe, D., Mabie, E., Berim, A., Gang, D., Tushingham S. Disease and Healing in Ancient Societies: Dental Calculus Residues and Skeletal Pathology Data Indicate Age and Sex-Biased Medicinal Practices among Native Californians. Hum. Biol. 94, 205.

2023 , R., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Anemone, R.L., Archer, W., Aumaître, G., Bamford, M.K., Biro, D., Bourlès, D.L., Doyle Boyd, M., Braun, D.R., Capelli, C., d’Oliveira Coelho, J., Habermann, J.M., Head, J.J., Keddadouche, K., Kupczik, K., Lebatard, A.-E., Lüdecke, T., Macôa, A., Martínez, F.I., Mathe, J., Mendes, C., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Presnyakova, D., Püschel, T.A., Regala, F.T., Sier, M., Ferreira Da Silva, M.J., Stalmans, M., Carvalho, S. The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift. iScience. 26, 107644.

2023 Rick, T.C., Sanchez, G.M., Tushingham, S. Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology. In: Whitaker, J.A., Armstrong, C.G. and Odonne, G. (Eds.), Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas: A Perspective from Historical Ecology. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 54-73. DOI:10.4324/9781003316497-4.

2023 Alemseged, Z. Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus. Nature. 617, 45–54.

2023 Stamos, P.A., Alemseged, Z. Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene. J. Hum. Evol. 178, 103332.

2023 Zimmermann, M., Tushingham, S. The Biomolecular Archaeology of Psychoactive Substances. In: Pollard, A.M., Armitage, R.A. and Makarewicz, C.A. (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 591-605. DOI:10.1002/9781119592112.ch29.

2023 Thakar, H.B., Flores-Fernandez C., Tushingham, S. Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins. In: Thakar, H.B. and Flores-Fernandez C. (Eds.), Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp. 1-34.

2023 Tushingham, S. Aquatic Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers: Evolutionary Frameworks in Northeast Pacific Rim Archaeology. In: Thakar, H.B. and Flores-Fernandez C. (Eds.), Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp. 58-80.

2023 Gusick, A., Maloney, J.M., Braje, T.J. , Klotsko, S., Erlandson, J., Johnson, L. Marine Cultural Heritage, Landscapes, and the Human Dimension of Marine Ecosystems: Building Bridges between Marine and Social Science, an Example of the Chumash Paleocoastal. In: Meniketti, M. (Ed.), The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes.  Berghahn, New York, pp. 21-46. DOI:10.1515/9781800738669-005.

2023 Braje, T.J., Bentz, L. California’s Nineteenth-Century Chinese Fisheries and the Dawn of Commercial Abalone Fishing. In: Meniketti, M. (Ed.), The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes. Berghahn, New York, pp. 99-114. DOI:10.1515/9781800738669-008.

2023 Smith, A.L., Davis, J., Panagiotopoulou, O., Taylor, A.B., Robinson, C., Ward, C.V., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Ross, C.F. Does the model reflect the system? When two-dimensional biomechanics is not ‘good enough.’ J. R. Soc. Interface. 20, 20220536.

2023 Smith, E.A.E., Braje, T.J., Gobalet, K.W., Campbell, B., Newsome, S.D., Rick, T. Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands. The Holocene DOI:10.1177/09596836221145383.

2022 Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z. Comment (Case 3847) – Opposition to the proposed conservation of Simopithecus oswaldi Andrews, 1916 (currently Theropithecus oswaldi; Mammalia, Primates, Cercopithecidae), by reversal of precedence with Cynocephalus atlanticus Thomas, 1884 (see BZN 78: 99–106 [Case]). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 79. Online Article.

2022 Erlandson, J., Braje, T.J. Boats, Seafaring, and the Colonization of the Americas and California Channel Islands: A Response to Cassidy (2021). California Archaeology.  DOI:10.1080/1947461X.2022.2125711.

2022 Gusick, A., Maloney, J.M., Braje, T.J., Retallack, G.J., Johnson, L., Klotsko, S., Ainis, A., Erlandson, J. Soils and terrestrial sediments on the seafloor: Refining archaeological paleoshoreline estimates and paleoenvironmental reconstruction off the California coast. Frontiers in Earth Science 10:941911. DOI:10.3389/feart.2022.941911.

2022 Braje, T.J., Maloney, J.M., Gusick, A., Jon Erlandson, J., Shannon Klotsko, K. Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California’s Northern Channel Islands. World Archaeology. DOI:10.1080/00438243.2022.2077825.

2022 Negash, E.W., Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J. Mammalian diversity patterns and paleoecology in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.), African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, pp. 289–297.

2022 Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Wynn, J.G., Reed, D., Barr, A.W., Alemseged, Z. Fossil vertebrates and paleoenvironments of the Pliocene Hadar Formation at Dikika, Ethiopia. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.), African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, pp. 229–241.

2022 Erlandson, J., Gill, K., Braje, T.J. The big picture versus minutiae: Geophytes, plant foods, and ancient human economies. American Antiquity 87(3):1-3. DOI:10.1017/aaq.2022.5.

2022 Reeder-Myers, L., Braje, T.J., Hofman, C.A., Elliott Smith, E.A., Garland, C.J., Grone, M., Hadden, C.S., Hatch, M., Hunt, T., Kelley, A., LeFebvre, M.J., Lockman, M., McKechnie, I., Mcniven, I., Newsom, B., Pluckhahn, T., Sanchez, G., Schwadron, M., Smith, K.Y., Smith, T., Spiess, A., Tayac, G., Thompson, V.D., Vollman, T., Weitzel, E., Rick, T. Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management. Nature Communications 13(1). DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-29818-z.

2022 Rick, T., Braje, T.J., Graham, L., Easterday, K., Hofman, C.A., Holguin, B.E., Mychajliw, A.M., Reeder-Myers, L.A., Reynolds, M.D. Cultural keystone places and the Chumash landscapes of Kumqaq’, Point Conception, California. American Antiquity. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2021.154.

2022  Rick, T., Alsharekh, A.M., Braje, T.J., Crowther, A., Erlandson, J., Fuller, D.Q., Gill, K., Groucutt, H.S., Guagnin, M., Helm, R., Hofman, C.A., Horton, M., Kay, A.U., Korisettar, R., Radimilahy, C., Reeder-Myers, L., Shipton, C., Wright, H., Petraglia, M.D., Boivin, N. Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.011.

2021 Braje, T., Erlandson, J., Rick, T. Islands Through Time: A Human and Ecological History of the Northern Channel Islands. Rowman and Littlefield, New York.

2021 Alemseged, Z. Earliest Stone Tool Use in Hominins and the Significance of the Dikika Cutmarks: Beyond the Cuts! In: Coppens, Y., Vialet, A. (Eds.), Un Bouquet d’ancêtres. Premiers Humains: Qui Était Qui, Qui a Fait Quoi, Où et Quand? Nouvelle Impremerie Laballery, Clamecy, France, pp. 101–122.

2021 Smith, A.L., Robinson, C., Taylor, A.B., Panagiotopoulou, O., Davis, J., Ward, C., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Ross, C.F. Comparative biomechanics of the Pan and Macaca mandibles during mastication: finite element modelling of loading, deformation and strain regimes. Interface Focus 11:20210031.

2021 Du, A., Rowan, J., Wang, S.C., Wood, B.A., Alemseged, Z. On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis-Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to Žliobaitė (2020). Journal of Human Evolution. 157(2021).

2021 Geraads, D., Reed, D., Barr, W.A., Bobe, R., Stamos, P., Alemseged, Z. Plio-Pleistocene mammals from Mille-Logya, Ethiopia, and the post-Hadar faunal change. J. Quat. Sci. 2021:1-17.

2021 Braje, T.J., and Bentz, L.M. Bills of Fare, Consumer Demand, Social Status, Ethnicity, and the Collapse of California Abalone. Journal of Ethnobiology 41(2). DOI:10.2993/0278-0771-41.2.277.

2021 Gusick, A., Braje, T.J., Erlandson, J., Maloney, J.M., Ball, D. Above and Below the Waves: Advances in the Search for a Late Pleistocene Colonization of California’s Islands. In: Napolitano, M.F., Stone, J.H., DiNapoli, R.J. (Eds.), The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement. University Press of Florida, pp. 105-131. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1m9x2s3.

2021 Davies, T.W., Alemseged, Z., Gidna, A., Jean-Jacques, H., Kimbel, W.H., Kullmer, O., Spoor, F., Zanolli, C., Skinner, M.M. Accessory cusp expression at the enamel-dentine junction of hominin mandibular molars. PeerJ 9:e11415 DOI 10.7717/peerj.11415.

2021 Gill, K.M., Braje, T.J., Smith, K., Erlandson, J.M. Earliest Evidence for Geophyte Use in North America: 11,500-Year-Old Archaeobotanical Remains from California's Santarosae Island. American Antiquity. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2021.31.

2021 Louys, J., Braje, T.J., Chang, Ch-H., Cosgrove, R., Fitzpatrick, S.M., Fujita, M., Hawkins, S., Ingicco, T., Kawamura, A., Macphee, R.D.E., McDowell, M.C., Meijer, H.J.M., Piper, P.J., Roberts, P., Simmons, A.H., van den Bergh, G., van der Geer, A., Kealy, S., O'Connor, S. No Evidence for Widespread Island Extinctions after Pleistocene Hominin Arrival. PNAS 118(20). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023005118.

2020 Erlandson, J.M., Braje, T.J., Ainis, A.F., Culleton, B.J., Gill, K.M., Hofman, C.A., Kennett, D.J., Reeder-Myers, L.A., Rick, T.C. Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an ~11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California’s Northern Channel Islands, USA. PLoS ONE 15(9):e0238866.

2020 Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Grine, F.E., Negash, E.W., Sponheimer, M. Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006221117.

2020 Negash, E.W., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Grine, F.E., Sponheimer, M., Wynn, J.G. Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia. PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006982117.

2020 Braje, T.J., Lauer, M. A meaningful Anthropocene? Golden spikes, transitions, boundary objects, and anthropogenic seascapes. Sustainability 12(6459):1-12. 10.3390/su12166459.

2020 Rick, T., Reeder-Myers, L., Braje, T.J., Wake, T.A. Human ecology, paleogeography, and biodiversity on California’s small islands. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (2020). 10.1080/15564894.2020.1767733.

2020 Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J.G., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Barr, W.A., Bobe, E., McPherron, S.P., Deino, A., Alene, M., Sier, M.J., Roman, D., Mohan, J. Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nature Communications 11:2480. 10.1038/s41467-020-16060-8.

2020 Lockey, A.L., Alemseged, Z., Hublin, J-J., Skinner, M.M. Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins. J Hum Evol. 142:102731. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102731.

2020 Milman, E., Daugherty, J., Alemseged, Z., Brennan, K., Lebowicz, L. Visualization of a juvenile Australopithecus afarensis specimen: Implications for functional foot anatomy. Journal of Biocommunications 43(2).

2020 Bentz, L.M., Braje, T.J. Bounty from the sea: Chinese foundations of the commercial shrimp, squid, and abalone fisheries in California. In: Rose, C., Kennedy, J.R. (Eds.), Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 275-305.

2020 Gunz, P., Neubauer, S., Falk, D., Tafforeau, P., Le Cabec, A., Smith, T.M., Kimbel, W.H., Spoor, F., Alemseged, Z. Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth. Science Advances 6:14. 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4729.

2020 Du, A., Rowan, J., Wang, S.C., Wood, B.A., Alemseged, Z. Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis–afarensis lineage.  J. Human Evol. 138(1). 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102688.

2019 Geraads, D., Barr, W.A., Reed, D., Laurin, M., Alemseged, Z. New remains of Camelus grattardi (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ethiopia and the phylogeny of the genus. J. Mammal Evol. (2019). 10.1007/s10914-019-09489-2.

2019 Stephens, L., Fuller, D.Q., Boivin, N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A.U., Marwick, B., Geralda, C., Armstrong, D., Barton, C.M., Denham, T., Douglass, K, Driver, J., Janz, L., Roberts, P., Rogers, J.D., Thakar, H.B., Altaweel, M., Johnson, A., Sampietro Vattuone, M.M., Aldenderfer, M., Archila, S., Artioli, G., Bale, M.T., Beach, T.P., Borrell, F., Braje, T.J., Buckland, P.I., Jiménez-Cano, N., Capriles, J.M., Diez Castillo, A., Cilingiroglu, C., Cleary, M.N., Conolly, J., Coutros, P.R., Covey, R.A., Cremaschi, M., Crowther, A., Der, L., Lernia, S., Doershuk, J.F., Doolittle, W.E., Edwards, K.J., Erlandson, J., Evans, D., Fairbairn, A., Faulkner, P., Feinman, G.M., Fernandes, R., Fitzpatrick, S.M., Fyfe, R., Garcea, E.A.A., Goldstein, S., Goodman, R.C., Guedes, J.D., Herrmann, J.T., Hiscock, P., Hommel, P., Horsburgh, K.A., Hritz, C., Ives, J.W., Junno, A., Kahn, J.G., Kaufman, B., Kearns, C., Kidder, T.R., Lanoë, F., Lawrence, D., Lee, G-A., Levin, M.J., Lindskoug, H.B., López-Sáez, J.A., Macrae, S., Marchant, R.A., Marston, J.M., Mcclure, S.B., McCoy, M.D., Miller, A.R.V., Morrison, M., Matuzeviciute, G.M., Müller, J., Nayak, A., Noerwidi, S., Peres, T., Peterson, C.E., Proctor, L., Randall, A., Renette, S., Schug, G.R., Ryzewski, K., Saini, R., Scheinsohn, V., Schmidt, P., Pauline, S., Seitsonen, O., Simpson, I.A., Sołtysiak, A., Speakman, R.J., Spengler, R., Steffen, M.L., Storozum, M., Strickland, K.M., Thompson, J., Thurston, T.L., Ulm, S., Ustunkaya, M.C., Welker, M., West, C., Williams, P.R., Wright, D.K., Wright, N.J., Zahir, M., Zerboni, A., Beaudoin, E.V., Munevar Garcia, S., Powell, J., Thornton, A., Kaplan, J.O., Gaillard, M-J., Goldewijk, K.K., Ellis, E.C. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365(6456):897-902. 10.1126/science.aax1192.

2019 Erlandson, J., Rick, T., Ainis, A., Braje, T.J., Gill, K., Reeder-Myers, L. Late Pleistocene estuaries, palaeoecology and humans on North America's Pacific Coast. Antiquity 93(372). 10.15184/aqy.2019.185.

2019 Fitzpatrick, S.M., Braje, T.J. Editor’s corner: Island and coastal archaeology as salvage archaeology. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 15(6456):1-2. 10.1080/15564894.2019.1683657.

2019 Braje, T.J., Maloney, J.M., Gusick, A., Erlandson, J., Nyers, A., Davis, L.G., Gill, K., Reeder-Myers, L, Ball, D. Working from the known to the unknown: Linking the subaerial archaeology and the submerged landscapes of Santarosae Island, Alta California, USA. Open Quaternary 5(1). 10.5334/oq.66.

2019 Laws, A.W., Maloney, J.M., Klotsko, S., Gusick, A., Braje, T.J., Ball, D. Submerged paleoshoreline mapping using high-resolution Chirp sub-bottom data, Northern Channel Islands platform, California, USA. Quaternary Research. 10.1017/qua.2019.34.

2019 Braje, T.J., Erlandson, J., Rick, T., Davis, L.G., Dillehay, T.D., Fedje, D., Froese, D.G., Gusick, A., Mackie, Q., McLaren, D., Pitblado, B.L., Raff, J., Reeder-Myers, L., Waters, M.R. Fladmark + 40: What have we learned about a potential Pacific Coast peopling of the Americas? American Antiquity 85(1):1-21. 10.1017/aaq.2019.80.

2019 Phukan, A., Braje, T.J., Rockwell , T.K., Ullah, I. Shorelines in the desert: Mapping fish trap features along the southwest coast of ancient Lake Cahuilla, California. Advances in Archaeological Practice.10.1017/aap.2019.31.

2019 Erlandson, J., Braje, T.J., Gill, K. A paleocoastal site complex from Santarosae Island, California. PaleoAmerica. 10.1080/20555563.2019.1653157.

2019 Rick, T., Braje, T.J., Wake, T.A., Sanchez, G., DeLong, R., Lightfoot, K. Seventy years of archaeological research on California’s Farallon Islands. California Archaeology 11(2):183-203. 10.1080/1947461X.2019.1652043

2019 Rick, T., Braje, T.J., Erlandson, J. Early red abalone shell middens, human subsistence, and environmental change on California's northern Channel Islands. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(2):20. 10.2993/0278-0771-39.2.204.

2019 Gusick, A., Maloney, J.M., King, R., Braje, T.J. Emerging technologies in the search for the submerged cultural landscapes of the Pacific continental shelf. Proceedings of the Annual Offshore Technology Conference 50. 10.4043/29221-MS.

2019 Haas, H., Erlandson, J., Whitaker, S.G., Braje, T., Edwards, M.S. Black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) population structure shifts through deep time: Management implications for southern California's northern Channel Islands. Ecology and Evolution 1-13. 10.1002/ece3.5075.

2019 McCain, J.M., Braje, T., Hernández Estrada, R.L., Porcayo Michelini, A., Aguilar, J., Rick, T. The four crowns of the sea: Archaeological reconnaissance of the Coronados Islands, Baja California, México. J. I. Coast. Archaeol. 1-19. 10.1080/15564894.2018.1536901.

2019 Braje, T., Erlandson, J., Gill, K., Rick, T., Bentz, L., Collins, P.W. Historical degradation and ecological recovery: Evaluating the marginality of California island ecosystems. In: Gill, K.M., Fauvelle, M., Erlandson, J.M. (Eds.), An Archaeology of Abundance: Reevaluating the Marginality of California's Islands. The University Press of Florida, pp.31-58.

2019 Du, A., Alemseged, Z. Temporal evidence shows Australopithecus sediba is unlikely to be the ancestor of Homo. Sci Adv. 5(5), eaav9038.

2019 Martinez, F.I., Capelli, C., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Aldeiase, V., Alemseged, Z., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Bobe, R., Braun, D.R., Habermann, J.M., Lüdecke, T., Madiquida, H., Mathe, J., Negash, E., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Stalmans, M., Tátá, F., Carvalho, S. A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships. J. Hum. Evol. 130:1-20.

2019 Thompson, J.C., Carvalho, S., Marean, C.W., Alemseged, Z. Origins of the human predatory pattern: The transition to large-animal exploitation by early hominins. Curr. Anthropol. 60(1):1-23.

2019 Alemseged, Z., Njau, J., Pobiner, B., Ndiema, E. Connecting palaeoscientists in eastern Africa and the wider world. Nature Ecol. Evol. 3:330-331.

2019 Habermann, J.M., Alberti, M., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Braun, D.R., Capelli, C., Cunha, E., Ferreira da Silva, M., Lüdecke, T., Madiquida, H., Martinez, F.I., Mathe, J., Negash, E., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Stalmans, M., Tátá Regala, F., Wynn, J.G., Bobe, R., Carvalho, S. Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 541:723-738.

2018 Braje, T. The Anthropocene as process: Why we should view the state of the world through a deep historical lens. Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Avançadas do Terceiro Setor. 1:4-20. 10.31501/repats.v1i1.9927.

2018 Braje, T. How Chinese immigrants built - and lost - a shellfish industry. Sapiens.

2018 Braje, T., Rick, T., Dillehay, T., Erlandson, J., Klein, R. Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain -- Response. Science 359. 10.1126/science.aar8645.

2018 Rick, T., Braje, T., Erlandson, J., Gill, K., Kirn, L., McLaren-Dewey, L. Horizon scanning: Survey and research priorities for cultural, historical, and paleobiological resources of Santa Cruz Island, California. West. N. Am. Nat. 78(4).

2018 Braje, T., Campbell, B., Haas, H. Assessing California mussel (Mytilus californianus) size changes through deep time: A methodological case study from San Miguel Island, California. In: Giovas, C., LeFebvre, M. (Eds.), Zooarchaeology in Practice: Case Studies in Methodology and Interpretation in Archaeofaunal Analysis. Springer, pp. 291-307. 10.1007/978-3-319-64763-0_15.

2018 Haas, H., Braje, T., Lauer, M., Fitzpatrick, S., Kiko, L., Ale, G. Archaeological reconnaissance and the first radiocarbon dates from Simbo Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 9:63-69.

2018 Bentz, L., Braje, T. Chinese abalone merchants and fishermen in nineteenth-century Santa Barbara, California. Journal of Chinese Overseas 14. 10.1163/17932548-12341368.

2018 Du, A., Alemseged, Z. Diversity analysis of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal communities in the Omo-Turkana Basin, eastern Africa. J. Hum. Evol. 124:25-39.

2018 DeSilva, J.M., Gill, C.M., Prang, T.C., Bredella, M.A., Alemseged, Z. A nearly complete foot from Dikika, Ethiopia and its implications for the ontogeny and function of Australopithecus afarensis. Sci Adv. 4(7), eaar7723.

2018 Van Allen, A. Pinning beetles, biobanking futures: practices of archiving life in a time of extinction. New Genet. Soc. 37(4):387-410.

2017 Ward, C.V., Nalley, T.K., Spoor, F., Tafforeau, P., Alemseged, Z. Thoracic vertebral count and thoracolumbar transition in Australopithecus afarensis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 201702229.

2017 Van Allen, A. Bird skin to biorepository: Making materials matter in the afterlives of natural history collections. Know. Org. 44(7):529-534.

2016 Wynn, J.G., Reed, K.E., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Bedaso, Z.K., Campisano, C.J. Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 99:93-106.

2016 Young, N.M., Capellini, T.D., Roach, N.T., Alemseged, Z. Reply to Almécija: A new direction for reconstructing our last common ancestor with chimpanzees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1525673113.

2015 Young, N.M., Capellini, T.D., Roach, N.T., Alemseged, Z. Reply to Melillo: Woranso-Mille is consistent with an australopithecine shoulder intermediate between African apes and Homo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112:E7160.

2015 Reed, D., Barr, W.A., McPherron, S.P., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z. Digital data collection in paleoanthropology. Evol. Anth. 24:238-249.

2015 Plummer, T., Ferraro, J.V., Louys, J.C., Hertel, F., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Bishop, L.C. Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 88:108-126.

2015 Negash, E., Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J.G., Bedaso, Z.K. Paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and abundance analysis of bovids from the Shungura Formation of South Omo, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 88:127-136.

2015 Alemseged, Z. Stable isotopes serving as a checkpoint. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112(40):12232-12233.

2015 Thompson, J.C., McPherron, S.P., Bobe, R., Reed, D., Barr, A., Wynn, J., Marean, C.W., Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z. Taphonomy of fossils from hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 86:112-135.

2015 Young, N.M., Capellini, T.D., Roach, N.T., Alemseged, Z. Fossil hominin shoulders support an African ape-like last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112(38):11829-11834.

2015 Skinner, M.M., Alemseged, Z., Gaunitz, C., Hublin, J-J. Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars. J. Hum. Evol. 85:35-45.

2015 Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Pliocene carnivora (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation at Dikika, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. J. Afr. Sci. 107:28-35.

2014 Alemseged, Z. Early hominins: synthesis. In: Renfrew, C., Bahn, P.G. (Eds.), The Cambridge World Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, pp. 47-64.

2013 Sponheimer, M., Alemseged, Z., Cerline, T.E., Grine, F.E., Kimbel, W.H., Leakey, M.G., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Manthi, F.K., Reed, K.E., Wood, B.A., Wynn, J.G. Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110(43):E4056.

2013 Alemseged, Z. Australopithecus in Ethiopia. In: Reed, K., Fleagle, J.G., and R.E. Leakey (Eds.), The Paleobiology of Australopithecus. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 63-72.

2013 Werdelin, L., and Lewis, M.E. Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 7: The Carnivora. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

2013 Wynn, J.G., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Reed, K., Bedaso, Z.K., Wilson, J.N. Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110(26):10495-10500.

2013 Sponheimer, M., Alemseged, Z., Cerling, T.E., Grine, F.G., Kimbel, W.H., Leakey, M.G., Lee-Thorp, J., Manthi, F.K., Reed, K. Wood, B., Wynn, J.G. Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110(26):10513-10518.

2013 Smith, T., Alemseged, Z. Reconstructing hominid life history. Nature Ed. Knowl. 4(4):2.

2013 Bedaso, Z., Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resources. J. Hum. Evol. 64:21-38.

2012 Green, D.J., Alemseged, Z. Australopithecus afarensis scapular ontogeny, function, and the role of climbing in human evolution. Science 338:514-517.

2012 Alemseged, Z., Kiura, P.W., Mbua, E., Njau, J., Pobiner, B. A platform for East African Paleoanthropology: Third bi-annual conference of the EAAPP. Evol. Anthropol. 21:89-91.

2011 McPherron, S.P., Alemseged, Z., Marean, C.W., Wynn, J.G., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Bobe, R., Béarat, H.A. Tool-marked bones from before the Oldowan change the paradigm. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108:E116.

2011 Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Enhydriodon dikikae sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), a gigantic otter from the Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 31:447-453.

2010 McPherron, S., Alemseged, Z., Marean, C., Wynn, J.G., Reed, D., Bobe, R., Béarat, H. Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues prior to 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 466:857-860.

2010 Bedaso, Z., Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Asbole fauna (Busidima Formation, Afar, Ethiopia) using stable isotopes. Geobios 43:165-177.

2010 Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Nyctereutes lockwoodi, n. sp., a new canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 30:981-987.

2009 Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. Diet in early hominin species: a paleoenvironmental perspective. In: Hublin, J.J., Richards, M.P. (Eds.), The Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 179-186.

2009 Njau, J.,Mbua, E. Alemseged, Z., Pobiner, B. Second conference of the East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology: Fifty years after discovery of Zinjanthropus. Evol. Anthropol. 18:235-236.

2008 Jablonski, N.G., and Leakey, M.G. (Eds.), Koobi Fora Research Project: Volume 6: The Fossil Monkeys. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

2008 Wynn, J. G., Roman, D.C., Alemseged, Z., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Munro, S. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Dikika, Ethiopia. In: Quade, J., Wynn, J.G. (Eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 1-32.

2008 Mbua, E., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. A new association for East African paleoanthropology and paleontology. Evol. Anthropol. 17:123-124.

2007 Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer, Dordrecht.

2007 Behrensmeyer, K., Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z. Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1-24.

2007 Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D. Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments: a case study in the lower Omo valley, Ethiopia. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 159-181.

2007 Behrensmeyer, K., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. Finale and future: investigating faunal evidence for hominin paleoecology in East Africa. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 333-345.

2007 Frost, S.R., Alemseged, Z. Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 53:227-259.

2006 Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W.H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Wynn, J.G. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:296-301.

2006 Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Roman, D.C. Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:332-336.

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