Lothagam

The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa

By: Meave Leakey (Editor), John Harris (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Located at the southwest corner of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, Lothagam represents one of the most important intervals in African prehistory. Early human remains are restricted in distribution to Africa and the acquisition of an upright bipedal striding gait, the hallmark of humanity, appears to be at least circumstantially linked to the reduction of equatorial forests and the spread of grasslands on that continent. The diverse Lothagam fauna documents the end-Miocene transition from forested to more open habitats that were exploited by grazing horses and antelopes, hippos, giant pigs, and true elephants. It also includes spectacularly complete fossil carnivore skeletons and some of the oldest human remains.

Enlisting a team of highly qualified specialists, this book provides the geologic context and dating framework for the Lothagam fossiliferous sequences, describes the immense diversity of vertebrate fossils recovered from the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene sediments, and synthesizes the results to interpret the changing paleoenvironments that prevailed at this site. The book will interest anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists, and anyone interested in human origins.

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This well-organized, well-written treatise provides an important resource, both for raw data and its interpretation... The quality of the work described in this volume is top notch, and the data presented will be an important resource for paleontologists for years to come... Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa is destined to become a classic. -- Peter Ungar, University of Arkansas The Quarterly Review of Biology Excellent editors' summary of fauna, environments, and comparisons with contemporaneous assemblages across Africa and Eurasia; beautiful and scholarly reconstructions of individual species and landscapes. Choice This volume elevates Lothagam to the high status it deserves as a detailed window...I recommend this book to anyone interested in continental records from this time. -- Catherine Badgley Journal of Paleontology Meave Leakey and co-author John Harris have edited and written a magnificent multiauthored, paleontological study... A wonderful window onto this important time. -- Gil Hermann Fossil News

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Introduction	p. 1
Geology, Paleosols, and Dating
Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Lothagam Sequence	p. 17
Miocene and Pliocene Paleosols of Lothagam	p. 31
Numerical Age Control for the Miocene-Pliocene Succession at Lothagam, a Hominoid-bearing Sequence in the Northern Kenya Rift	p. 43
Crustacea and Pisces
Fossil Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Lothagam	p. 67
Fossil Fish Remains from Mio-Policene Deposits at Lothagam, Kenya	p. 75
Reptilia and Aves
Fossil Turtles from Lothagam	p. 115
Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Crocodilian Fauna of Lothagam, Southwest Turkana Basin, Kenya	p. 137
Lothagam Birds	p. 161
Lagomorpha and Rodentia
Rodents and Lagomorphs from the Miocene and Pliocene of Lothagam, Northern Kenya	p. 169
Primates
Cercopithecidae from Lothagam	p. 201
The Lothagam Hominids	p. 249
Carnivora
Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya	p. 261
Proboscidea and Tubulidentata
Elephantoidea from Lothagam	p. 331
Deinotheres from the Logatham Succession	p. 359
Fossil Aardvarks from the Lothagam Beds	p. 363
Perissodactyla
Lothagam Rhinocerotidae	p. 371
Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Hipparionine Equids from Lothagam, Kenya	p. 387
Hippopotamidae and Suidae
Fossil Hippopotamidae from Lothagam	p. 441
Lothagam Suidae	p. 485
Ruminantia
Lothagam Giraffids	p. 523
Bovidae from the Lothagam Succession	p. 531
Isotopes
Stable Isotope Ecology of Northern Kenya, with Emphasis on the Turkana Basin	p. 583
Isotope Paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya	p. 605
Lothagam: Its Significance and Contributions	p. 625
Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam	p. 661
Contributors	p. 667
Index	p. 669
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