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Papers by Zelalem Bedaso
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2019
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2019
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, Dec 17, 2021
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
Journal of Environmental Management
African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 10, 2020
Journal of Hydrology, 2021
Sustainable Water Resources Management
A series of major hominin speciation events that took place in East Africa during the Pliocene-Pl... more A series of major hominin speciation events that took place in East Africa during the Pliocene-Pleistocene epochs have been linked to landscape evolution. Previous studies examining the role of climatic and environmental pressures on hominin evolution have used either discontinuous outcrops exposed proximal to, or marine sediments distal from, hominid fossil sites. These sediments have been used to develop stable carbon and oxygen isotope (δ13C, δ18O) proxy-based reconstructions of ancient environments, showing evidence for a series of changes including a transition from woodland to savannah-dominated environments. This work has prompted researchers to hypothesize that speciation events coincided with cooling of the African climate and local aridification during times of glacial intensification. It is speculated that local environmental pressures led to an increase in brain size, breakthroughs in stone technology, and the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa. However, recent clum...
Understanding patterns of Pliocene environmental and climate change using data from terrestrial d... more Understanding patterns of Pliocene environmental and climate change using data from terrestrial deposits helps to identify factors which govern the climate, and to unravel potential links between regional and global climate conditions. We use the stable carbon (C) and oxygen (O) isotopic composition of bioapatite from fossil tooth enamel to reconstruct Pliocene environmental and climatic changes at Dikika and Galili,
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2019
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2019
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, Dec 17, 2021
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2020
Journal of Environmental Management
African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 10, 2020
Journal of Hydrology, 2021
Sustainable Water Resources Management
A series of major hominin speciation events that took place in East Africa during the Pliocene-Pl... more A series of major hominin speciation events that took place in East Africa during the Pliocene-Pleistocene epochs have been linked to landscape evolution. Previous studies examining the role of climatic and environmental pressures on hominin evolution have used either discontinuous outcrops exposed proximal to, or marine sediments distal from, hominid fossil sites. These sediments have been used to develop stable carbon and oxygen isotope (δ13C, δ18O) proxy-based reconstructions of ancient environments, showing evidence for a series of changes including a transition from woodland to savannah-dominated environments. This work has prompted researchers to hypothesize that speciation events coincided with cooling of the African climate and local aridification during times of glacial intensification. It is speculated that local environmental pressures led to an increase in brain size, breakthroughs in stone technology, and the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa. However, recent clum...
Understanding patterns of Pliocene environmental and climate change using data from terrestrial d... more Understanding patterns of Pliocene environmental and climate change using data from terrestrial deposits helps to identify factors which govern the climate, and to unravel potential links between regional and global climate conditions. We use the stable carbon (C) and oxygen (O) isotopic composition of bioapatite from fossil tooth enamel to reconstruct Pliocene environmental and climatic changes at Dikika and Galili,