Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

The Kufrah paleodrainage system in Libya: A past connection to the Mediterranean Sea?

(2012) Philippe Paillou et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

A reassessment of lake and wetland feedbacks on the North African Holocene climate

(2012) G. Krinner et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Correlation of the KHS Tuff of the Kibish Formation to volcanic ash layers at other sites, and the age of early Homo sapiens (Omo I and Omo II)

(2012) Francis H. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: A synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago

(2012) Margaret Whiting Blome et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The development of the Nile drainage system: integration of onshore and offshore evidence

(2012) Duncan S. Macgregor   PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE

Water, plants, and early human habitats in eastern Africa

(2012) Clayton R. Magill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Challenges in constraining pluvial events and hominin activity: Examples of ESR dating molluscs from the Western Desert, Egypt

(2012) B.A.B. Blackwell et al.   Quaternary Geochronology

Palaeoclimate in the Saharan and Arabian Deserts during the Middle Palaeolithic and the potential for hominin dispersals

(2012) Nick A. Drake et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Reconstructing precipitation changes in northeastern Africa during the Quaternary by clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations of Nile deep-sea fan sediments

(2012) Yulong Zhao et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin

(2011) Josephine C.A. Joordens et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

(2011) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Shades of the savannah

(2011) Craig S. Feibel   NATURE

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

(2011) Thure E. Cerling et al.   NATURE

Astronomical forcing of Northwest African climate and glacial history during the late Messinian (6.5–5.5Ma)

(2011) E. van der Laan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa

(2011) S. P. Good et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Orbital timing of the Indian, East Asian and African boreal monsoons and the concept of a ‘global monsoon’

(2011) Thibaut Caley et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sahara and Sahel vulnerability to climate changes, lessons from Holocene hydrological data

(2011) Anne-Marie Lézine et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early Human Evolution in the Western Palaearctic: Ecological Scenarios

(2011) José S. Carrión et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Was North Africa the Launch Pad for Modern Human Migrations?

(2011) M. Balter   SCIENCE

Evolutionary systematics and biogeography of endemic gerbils (Rodentia, Muridae) from Morocco: an integrative approach

(2011) Arame Ndiaye et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Application of the authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method to continental sediments: Reconstruction of the Mio-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence in the early hominid fossiliferous areas of the northern Chad Basin

(2010) Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Landscapes of human evolution: models and methods of tectonic geomorphology and the reconstruction of hominin landscapes

(2010) Geoffrey N. Bailey et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

(2010) N. A. Drake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatially variable sedimentary responses to orbitally driven pluvial climate during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 5.1, Dakhla Oasis region, Egypt

(2010) Ian A. Brookes   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

How “African” was the early human dispersal out of Africa?

(2010) Jordi Agustí et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Biogeography and climatic change as a context to human dispersal out of Africa and within Eurasia

(2010) Jan van der Made   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

(2009) Julie Watrin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

The upper Tortonian–lower Messinian at Monte dei Corvi (Northern Apennines, Italy): Completing a Mediterranean reference section for the Tortonian Stage

(2009) S.K. Hüsing et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and water balance of a mid-Pleistocene pluvial lake, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

(2009) Johanna M. Kieniewicz et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

(2009) I. S. Castaneda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographic relationships of Pliocene and Pleistocene North-western African mammals

(2009) Denis Geraads   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

(2009) H.J. O'Regan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Hominin life history: reconstruction and evolution

(2008) Shannen L. Robson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The environmental context of human evolutionary history in Eurasia and Africa

(2008) Sarah Elton   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Coherent high- and low-latitude control of the northwest African hydrological balance

(2008) Rik Tjallingii et al.   Nature Geoscience

Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and surrounding regions: The last 7 million years

(2008) N.A. Drake et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change

(2008) Paul C. Sereno et al.   PLoS One

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago

(2008) A. H. Osborne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

(2008) Françoise Gasse et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate

(2008) Martin H. Trauth et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

(2008) S. Kro pelin et al.   SCIENCE

The Middle Pleistocene Al Mahrúqah Formation in the Murzuq Basin, northern Sahara, Libya evidence for orbitally-forced humid episodes during the last 500,000 years

(2007) Mebus A. Geyh et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY