Hominin Paleoecology Review

Kingston, J.D. (2007) Shifting Adaptive Landscapes: Progress and Challenges in Reconstructing Early Hominid Environments. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50:20-58. 

Isotopic Hominin Paleoecology

Kingston, J.D. (2011) Stable Isotopic Analysis of Fossil Laetoli Herbivores. IN  T. Harrison (ed.) Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context. Volume 1: Geology, Geochronology, Paleoecology, and Paleoenvironments. pp. 293-328. Springer.

Cerling, T.E., Levin, N.E., Quade, J., Wynn, J.G., Fox, D.L., Kingston, J.D., Klein, R.G., Brown, F.H.  (2010) Comment on the Paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 238:1105d (4 pages).

Plummer, T.W., P.W. Ditchfield, L.C. Bishop, J.D. Kingston, J.V.Ferraro, D.R. Braun, F.Hertel, & R. Potts (2009) Oldest evidence of Toolmaking hominins in a grassland-dominated ecosystem. PLoS ONE  4(9): e7199.

Plummer, T., Bishop, L., Ditchfield, P., Ferraro, J., Kingston, J.D., Hertel, F. and Braun, D. (2009) The environmental context of Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Kenya. in V. Hovers & D. Braun (eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches for Understanding the Oldowan, Springer’s Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Book Series, Eric Delson & Ross MacPhee (Series eds.). pp. 149-160. 

Bishop, L.C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J.V., Braun, D., Ditchfield, P. W., Hertel, F. Kingston, J.D., Hicks, J. and R. Potts (2006) Recent research into Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya. African Archaeological Review 23(1-2): 31-40.

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2007) Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology 243:272-306 .

Kingston, J.D. (1999) Environmental determinants in early hominid evolution: Issues and evidence from the Tugen Hills, Kenya. In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 69-84. 

Kingston, J.D., Marino, B.D., and Hill, A.P. (1994) Isotopic evidence for Neogene hominid paleoenvironments in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science264: 955-959.

Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1994) Carbon isotopic evidence for the emergence of C4 plants in the Neogene from Pakistan and Kenya. Nature367: 162-165. 

Hominin paleoenvironments/orbital forcing

Wilson, K.E., Maslin, M.A., Leng, M.L., Kingston, J.D., Deino, A.L., Edgar, R.K., Mackay, A.W. (in press) East African lake evidence for Pliocene millennial-scale climate variability. Geology. 

Kingston, J.D., Deino, A., Hill, A. and Edgar, R. (2007). Astronomically forced climate change in the Kenyan Rift Valley 2.7-2.55 Ma: Implications for the evolution of early hominin ecosystems. Journal of Human Evolution 53(5): 487-503. 

Deino, A., Kingston, J.D., Glenn, J., Hill, A., and Edgar, R. (2006) Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 247:41-60. 

Kingston, J.D. (2005) Orbital controls on seasonality in Brockman, D.K. & van Schaik, C.P. (eds)  Seasonality in Primates: Studies of living and extinct human and non-human Primates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 519-542. 

Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (2005) When it rains it pours: legends and truths of East African Pluvials in Lieberman, D., Smith, R., and Kelley, J.  (eds), Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, 5. Hague: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 189-205. 

Modern Isotopic Ecology

Carlson, B. and Kingston, J. (2014) Chimpanzee isotopic ecology: A closed canopy C3 template for hominin dietary reconstruction. Journal of Human Evolution 76: 107-115.

Archeology/Isotopes/Ecology

Turner, B.L., Kamenov, G.D., Kingston, J.D., and Armelagos, G.J. (2009) Insights into Immigration and Social Class at Machu Picchu, Peru. based on oxygen, strontium and lead isotopic analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36: 317-332. 

Harper, K.N., Zuckerman, M.K., Harper, M.L., Kingston, J.D., and Armelagos, G.J. (2011) The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis Revisited: An Appraisal of Old World Pre-Columbian Evidence for Treponemal Infection. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 54:99-133. 

Turner, B.L., Edwards, J.L., Quinn, E.A., Kingston, J.D., Van Gerven, D.P. (2007) Age-related variation in isotopic indicators of diet at medieval Kulubnarti, Sudanese Nubia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology17:1-25. 

Bishop, L.C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J.V., Braun, D., Ditchfield, P. W., Hertel, F. Kingston, J.D., Hicks, J. and R. Potts (2006) Recent research into Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya. African Archaeological Review 23(1-2): 31-40. 

Turner, B.L., Kingston, J.D., and Milanich, J. (2005) Isotopic Evidence of Lifelong Status during the Weeden Island and Suwanee Valley Periods in North Florida. Southeastern Archaeology 24(2): 121-136. 

McBrearty, S., Bishop, L., and Kingston, J.D. (1996) Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 30: 563-580. 

Schoeninger, M.J., Moore, K.M., Murray, M.L., and Kingston, J.D., (1989). Detection of bone preservation in archaeological and fossil samples, Journal of Applied Geochemistry 4: 281-292. 

Paleontology

Gilbert, C.C., Goble, E.D., Kingston, J.D., and Hill, A. (2011) Partial Skeleton of Theropithecus brumpti (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Chemeron Formation of the Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 61(4):347-518. 

Kingston, J.D., Jacobs, B. F., Hill, A. & Deino, A. L. (2002). Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 95-116. 

Behenrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A. L., Hill, A., Kingston, J.D. & Saunders, J. J. (2002). Geology and geochronology of the middle Miocene Kipsaramon site complex, Muruyur Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 11-38. 

Hill, A., Leakey, M., Kingston, J.D. & Ward, S. (2002). New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12.5 Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 75-93. 

Bishop, L., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Palaeoecology of Suidae from the Tugen Hills, Baringo, Kenya In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 99-111. 

Jacobs, B.F., Kingston, J.D., and Jacobs, L.. (1999) Evolution of grass dominated ecosystems. In E.M. Friis, K.R. Pedersen, and P.R. Crane (eds): The origin of modern terrestrial ecosystems: Fossils, phylogeny and biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86(2): 590-643. 

Hominoid Evolution

Hill, A., Leakey, M., Kingston, J.D. & Ward, S. (2002). New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12.5 Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 75-93. 

Gebo, D.L., MacLatchy, L., Kityo, R., Deino, A., Kingston, J., and  Pilbeam, D. (1997). A Hominoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Science 276:401-404. 

DHA and Aquatic Diet

Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) DHA, the aquatic diet, and hominin encephalization: Difficulties in establishing evolutionary links. American Journal of Human Biology 19:132-141. 

Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) Docosahexaenoic Acid Biosynthesis and Dietary Contingency: Encephalization Without Aquatic Constraint. American Journal of Human Biology 19:585-588. 

Abu Dhabi Paleoecology

Kingston, J.D. (1999) Isotopes and environments of the Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 354-372. 

Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (1999) Late Miocene paleoenvironments in Arabia: A synthesis. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 389-407. 

Whybrow, P.J., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Late Miocene fauna and environments of the Baynunah Formation: Emirate of Abu Dhabi (Western Region), United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Faculty of Science: U.A.E. University, 10(1):120-145.