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TYLER FAITH

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Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Chief Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah

jfaith@nhmu.utah.edu

International Activities

International Professional Membership

  • South Africa: Member, South African Society for Quaternary Research, 01/2022

International Publications

  • Eastern Africa: O'Brien, K. & Hebdon, N., Faith, J.T. (2023). Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 177, 103325., 04/01/2023 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Karp, A.T. & Uno, K.T., Berke, M.A., Russell, J.M., Scholz, C.A., Marlon, J.R., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C. (2023). Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 107994, 107994., 03/15/2023 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Hempel, E. & Bibi, F., Faith, J.T., Koepfli, K.-P., Klittich, A.M., Duchêne, A., Brink, J.S., KAlthoff, D.C., Dalén, L., Hofreiter, M., Westbury, M.V. (2022). Blue Turns to Gray: Paleogenomic Insights into the Evolutionary History and Extinction of the Blue Antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Molecular Biology and Evolution. Vol. 39, msac241., 12/01/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Mexico: Broughton, J.M. & Codding, B.F., Faith, J.T., Mohlenhoff, K.A., Gruhn, R., Brenner-Coltrain, J., Hart, I.A. (2022). El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities. Science. Vol. 377, 1202-1205., 09/09/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • South Africa: Davies, B. & Power, M.J., Braun, D.R., Douglass, M.J., Mosher, S.G., Quick, L.J., Esteban, I., Sealy, J., Parkington, J., Faith, J.T. (2022). Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 289, 107600., 08/01/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • North America: Fraser, D., Villaseñor, A., Tóth, A.B., Balk, M.A,. Eronen, J.T., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davis, M., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Gotelli, N.J., Jukar, A.M., Looy, C.V., McGill, B.J., Miller, J.JH., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Shupinksi, A.B., & Soul, L.C., Lyons, S.K. (2022). Late Quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Nature Communications. Vol. 13, 3940., 07/08/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Potts, R., & Faith, J.T. Mammalian Fauna of the Olorgesailie Basin and Southern Kenya Rift. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.) African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge., 05/19/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Faith, J.T. (2022) The Middle Pleistocene through the Holocene, a synthesis. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.) African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge., 05/19/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Davies, B. & Douglass, M.J., Braun, D.R., Parkington, J., Power, M.J., Faith, J.T. (2022). From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 14, 1-12., 04/2022
  • Global: Abraham, J.O. & Hempson, G.P., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C. (2022). Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores. Journal of Animal Ecology. Vol. 91, 681-692., 03/2022
  • Eastern Africa: Patterson, D.B. & Du, A., Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Uno, K., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Braun, D.R., Wood, B.A. (2022). Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei. Journal of Human Evolution., 03/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Mant-Melville, A. & Blegen, N., Faith, J.T. (2022). Technological diversity in the Late Pleistocene of the Nyanza Rift, Kenya: Archaeological excavations at Kapsarok 1 and Anderea’s Farm 1. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Vol. 41, 103257., 02/2022
  • Eastern Africa: Barr, W.A. & Pobiner, B., Rowan, J., Du, A., Faith, J.T. (2022). No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Vol. 119, e2115540119., 02/2022
  • Southern Africa: Dupont, L. & Zhao, X., Charles, C., Faith, J.T., Braun, D. (2022). Continuous vegetation record of the greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 thousand years (IODP U1479). Climate of the Past. Vol. 18, 1-21., 01/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Karp, A.T. & Faith, J.T., Marlon, J.R., Staver, A.C. (2021). Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions. Science. Vol. 374, 1145-1148., 11/26/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Muiruri, V. & Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Deino, A.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Riedl, S., Rabideaux, N., Beverly, E.J., Renaut, R.W., Moerman, J.W., Deocampo, D., Faith, J.T., Noren, A., Cohen, A.S., Shannon, K.B., Dommain, R. (2021). Quaternary diatoms and palaeoenvironments of the Koora Plain, southern Kenya Rift. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 267, 107106., 09/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Faith, J.T. & Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davies, B., Patterson, D.B., Rowan, J., Wood, B. (2021). Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Vol. 36, 797-807., 09/01/2021
  • Africa: Staver, A.C. & Abraham, J.O., Hempson, G., Karp, A.T., Faith, J.T. (2021). The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation. Journal of Ecology. Vol. 109, 2804-2822., 08/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Lazagabaster, I.A. & Cerling, T.E., Faith, J.T. (2021). A Late Pleistocene third molar of Hylochoerus (Suidae, Mammalia) from Rusinga Island, Kenya: paleoenvironmental implications and a note on the hypsodonty of African forest hogs. Historical Biology. Vol. 33, 3673-3685., 04/2021
  • Kenya: Blegen, N. & Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J. (2021). Tephrostratigraphy of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin including the Nyanza Rift, Kenya: Building a stratigraphic and chronological framework for modern human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 256, 106823., 03/15/2021
  • Kenya: O'Brien, K. & Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Kimeu, B., Rowan, J., Faith, J.T. (2021). First appearance of Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), from the Middle Pleistocene Kapthurin formation, Kenya, sheds light on the evolution and paleoecology of large zebras. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 256, 106835., 03/15/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Cooper, A., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J., Hogg, A., McGlone, M., Wilmshurst, J., Lorrey, A.M., Heaton, T.J., Russell, J.M., McCracken, K., Anet, J.G., Rozanov, E., Friedel, M., Suter, I., Peter, T., Muscheler, R., Adolphi, F., Dosseto, A., Faith, JT. & Fenwick, P., Fogwill, C.J., Hughen, K., Lipson, M., Liu, J., Nowaczyk, N., RAinsley, E., Ramsey, C.B., Sebastianelli, P., Souilmi, Y., Stevenson, J., Thomas, Z., Robler, R., Zech, R. (2021). A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago. Science. Vol. 371, 811-818., 02/19/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Braun, D.R. & Faith, J.T., Douglass, M.J., Davies, B., Power, M.J., Aldeias, V., Conard, N.J., Cutts, R., DeSantis, L.R.G., Dupont, L.M., Esteban ,I., Kandel, A.W., Levin, N.E., Luyt, J., Parkington, J., Pickering, R., Quick, L., Sealy, J., Stynder, D. (2021). Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology. Vol. 30, 50-62., 02/18/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Hempel, E. & Bibi, F., Faith, J.T., Brink, J.S., Kalthoff, D.C., Kamminga, P., Paijmans, J.L.A., Westbury, M.V., Hofreiter, M., Zachos, F.E. (2021). Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Scientific Reports. Vol. 11, 2100., 01/22/2021
  • Kenya: Kovarovic, K. & Faith, J.T., Jenkins, K.E., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J. (2021). Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist, Rusingoryx atopocranion (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya. Quaternary Research. Vol. 101, 187-204., 01/19/2021
  • Kenya: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., O'Brien, K., Blegen, N., Peppe, D.J. (2020). Late Pleistocene mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: systematic paleontology, paleoenvironments, and non-analog associations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 40, e1841781., 12/08/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T. & Braun, D.R., Davies, B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Douglass, M.J., Esteban, I., Hare, V., Levin, N.E., Luyt, J., Pickering, R., Power, M.J., Sealy, J., Stynder, D. (2020). Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol. 35, 1007-1020., 11/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Potts, R., Dommain, R., Moerman, J.W., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A.L., Riedl, S., Beverly, E.J., Brown, E.T., Deocampo, D., Kinyanjui, R., Lupien, R., Owen, R.B., Rabideaux, N., Russell, J.M., Stockhecke, M., deMenocal, P., Faith, J.T., Garcin, Y,. Noren, A., & Scott, J.J., Western, D., Bright, J., Clark, J.B., Cohen, A.S., Keller, C.B., King, J., Levin, N.E., Shannon, K.B., Muiruri, V., Renaut, R.W., Rucina, S.M., Uno, K. (2020). Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution. Science Advances. Vol. 6, eabc8975., 10/21/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Pearson, O.M. & Hill, E.C., Peppe, D.J., Van Plantinga, A., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A. (2020). A Late Pleistocene human humerus from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 146, 102855., 09/2020
  • South Africa: Pargeter, J. & Faith, J.T. (2020). Lithic miniaturization as adaptive strategy: a case study from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 12, 225., 08/28/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A., Barr, W.A. (2020). The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens. Quaternary Research. Vol. 96, 88-104., 07/01/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T. & Chase, B.M., Avery, D.M. (2020). Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa – Response to comments by F. Thackeray. Quaternary Research. Vol. 95, 157-159., 05/12/2020 CLIMATE CHANGE
  • South Africa: Sealy, J. (2020). Climate and ecology of the palaeo-Agulhas Plain from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of bovid tooth enamel from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 235, 105974., 05/01/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T. (2020). Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Vol. 117, 3370-3371., 02/18/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Niespolo, E.M. & Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Ranhorn, K., Mambelli, S., Miller, M.J., Dawson, T.E. (2020). Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-scale Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records for eastern African archaeological sites. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 230, 106142., 02/15/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Beverly, E.J. & White, J.D., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Blegen, N., Tryon, C.A. (2020). Rapid Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa’s Lake Victoria. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 530, 115883., 01/15/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Kenya: O'Brien, K. & Patterson, D.B., Biernat, M.D., Braun, D.R., Cerling, T.E., McGrosky, A., Faith, J.T. (2020). Ungulate turnover in the Koobi Fora Formation: spatial and temporal variation in the Early Pleistocene. Journal of African Earth Sciences. Vol. 161, 103658., 01/01/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Rowan, J., Faith, J.T. (2019) The paleoecological impact of grazing and browsing: the consequences of late Quaternary extinctions. In: Gordon, I.J., Prins, H.H.T. (Eds.) The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II. Springer. Pages 61-79, 11/12/2019 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Swift, J.A., Bunce, M., Dortch, J., Douglass, K., Faith, J.T., Yates, J.A.F., Field, J., Haberle, S., Jacob, E., Johnson, C.N., Lindsey, E., Lorenzen, E.D., Louys, J., Miller, G., Mychajliw, A., Slon, V., Villavicencio, N., Water, M.R., Welker, F., Wood, R., & Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. (2019). Micro methods for megafauna: novel approaches to late Quaternary extinctions and their contributions to faunal conservation in the Anthropocene. BioScience. Vol. 69, 877-887., 11/01/2019 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A. (2019). Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Vol. 116, 21478-21483., 10/07/2019 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T. & Chase, B.M., Avery, D.M. (2019). Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Research. Vol. 91, 848-860., 03/01/2019 CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Africa: Faith, J.T., Wood, B.A. (Accepted) Was Paranthropus boisei eating grass? In: Constantino, P.J., Reed, K.E., Wood, B.A. (Eds.) The Forgotten LIneage(s): Paleobiology of Paranthropus. Springer, 02/15/2019
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A., Koch, P.L. (2018). Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts. Science. Vol. 362, 938-941., 11/23/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Indonesia: Sutikna, T. & Tocheri, M.W., Faith, J.T., Jatmiko, Due Awe, R., Meijer, H.J.M., Saptomo, E.W., Roberts, R.G. (2018). The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology of Homo floresiensis. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 124, 52-74., 11/01/2018
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T. (2018). We need to critically evaluate our assumptions: reply to Blumenthal et al. (2018). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 506, 252-253., 10/01/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Price, G.J. & Louys, J., Faith, J.T., Lorenzen, E., Westaway, M.C. (2018). Big data little help in megafauna mysteries. Nature. Vol. 558, 23-25., 06/06/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Potts, R & Behrensmeyer, AK, Faith, JT, Tryon, CA, Brooks, AS, Yellen, JE, Deino, AL, Kinyanjui, R, Clark, JB, Haradon, C, Levin, NE, Meijer, HJM, Veatch, EG, Owen, RB, Renaut, RW (2018). Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Science. Vol. 360, 86-90., 03/15/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Faith J. (2018). Paleodietary change and its implications for aridity indices derived from δ18O of herbivore tooth enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 490, 571-578., 01/15/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Australia: Norman K., Inglis J., Clarkson C., Faith J., Shulmeister J. & Harris D. (2018). An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago. (pp. 229-239). Vol. 180, Quaternary Science Reviews., 01/15/2018 NATURE & CULTURE
  • South Africa: Chase B., Faith J., Mackay A., Chevalier M., Carr A., Boom A., Lim S. & Reimer P. (2018). Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa's southern Cape. (pp. 35-44). Vol. 114, Journal of Human Evolution., 01/01/2018 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Kenya: Beverly E. & , Peppe D., Driese S., Blegen N., Faith J., Tryon C., & Stinchcomb G. (2017). Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments using bulk geochemistry of paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. Vol. 5, 93., 11/21/2017 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Kenya: Blegen N., Faith J., Mant-Melville A., Peppe D., Tryon C. (2017) The East African MIddle Stone Age after 50,000 years ago: new evidence from Late Pleistocene sediments of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Nyanza Province, Western Kenya. (pp. 139-169). Vol. 2017. Paleoanthropology., 10/01/2017 NATURE & CULTURE
  • Australia: Faith J., Dortch J., Jones C., Shulmeister J. & Travouillon K. (2017). Large mammal species richness and late Quaternary precipitation change in south-western Australia. (pp. 760-769). Vol. 32, Journal of Quaternary Science., 08/01/2017 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • South Africa: Grine F., Marean C., Faith J., Black W., Mongle C., Trinkaus E., le Roux S. & du Plessis A. (2017). Further human fossils from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa. (pp. 70-78). Vol. 109, Journal of Human Evolution., 08/01/2017
  • Jordan: Dighton A., Fairbairn A., Bourke S., Faith J. & Habgood P. (2017). Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan. (pp. 403-413). Vol. 26, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany., 07/01/2017 NATURE & CULTURE
  • Kenya: Jenkins K., Nightingale S., Faith J., Peppe D., Michel L., Driese S., McNulty K. & Tryon C. (2017). Evaluating the potential for tactical hunting in the Middle Stone Age: Insights from a bonebed of the extinct bovid, Rusingoryx atopocranion. (pp. 72-91). Vol. 108, Journal of Human Evolution., 07/01/2017
  • Turkey: Wright N., Fairbairn A., Üstünkaya M. & Faith J. (2017). Explaining changing patterns of wood presence across the Bronze and Iron Age at Kaman-Kalehöyük, central Anatolia. (pp. 90-102). Vol. 431, Quaternary International., 02/28/2017 NATURE & CULTURE
  • Global: Lyons S., Miller J., Amatangel K., Behrensmeyer A., Bercovici A., Blois J., Davis M., DiMichele W., Du A., Eronen J., Faith J., Graves G., Jud N., Labandeira C., Looy C., McGill B., Patterson D., Pineda-Munoz S., Potts R., Riddle B., Terry R., Tóth A., Ulrich W., Villaseñor A., Wing S., Anderson H., Anderson J. & Gotelli N. (2016). Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts (pp. 80-83). Vol. 529, Nature., 12/16/2016 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Blegen N., Brown F., Jicha B., Binetti K., Faith J., Ferraro J., Gathogo P., Richardson J. & Tryon C. (2016). The Menengai Tuff: A 36 ka widespread tephra and its chronological relevance to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Africa. (pp. 152-168). Vol. 152, Quaternary Science Reviews., 11/15/2016
  • South Africa: Sealy J., Lee-Thorp J., Loftus E., Faith J. & Marean C. (2016). Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave. (pp. 919-927). Vol. 31, Journal of Quaternary Science., 11/01/2016 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Tanzania: Tryon C. & Faith J. (2016). A demographic perspective on the middle to later stone age transition from nasera rockshelter, Tanzania. Vol. 371, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences., 07/05/2016 NATURE & CULTURE
  • Polynesia: Weisler M., Bolhar R., Charleux M., Faith J., Feng Y. & Pierre E. (2016). Determining the geochemical variability of fine-grained basalt sources/quarries for facilitating prehistoric interaction studies in Polynesia. (pp. 158-167). Vol. 51, Archaeology in Oceania., 07/01/2016
  • Kenya: Faith J., Patterson D., Blegen N., O'Neill C., Marean C., Peppe D. & Tryon C. (2016). Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (East African mole-rat) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa. (pp. 39-48). Vol. 140, Quaternary Science Reviews., 05/15/2016 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Ethiopia: Robinson J., Rowan J., Faith J. & Fleagle J. (2016). Paleoenvironmental change in the late Middle Pleistocene-Holocene Kibish Formation, southern Ethiopia: Evidence from ungulate isotopic ecology. (pp. 50-59). Vol. 450, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 05/15/2016 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Ethiopia: Lesur J., Faith J., Bon F., Dessie A., Ménard C. & Bruxelles L. (2016). Paleoenvironmental and biogeographic implications of terminal Pleistocene large mammals from the Ziway-Shala Basin, Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia. (pp. 567-579). Vol. 449, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 05/01/2016 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: O'Brien H., Faith J., Jenkins K., Peppe D., Plummer T., Jacobs Z., Li B., Joannes-Boyau R., Price G., Feng Y. & Tryon C. (2016). Unexpected convergent evolution of nasal domes between pleistocene bovids and cretaceous hadrosaur dinosaurs. (pp. 503-508). Vol. 26, Current Biology., 02/22/2016
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J. (2016) Environmental change, ungulate biogeography, and their implications for early human dispersals in equatorial East Africa. In: Jones, S.C., Stewart, B.A. (Eds.) Africa from MIS 6-2: Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments. Springer. Pages 233-245., 01/01/2016 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Beverly E., Driese S., Peppe D., Arellano L., Blegen N., Faith J. & Tryon C. (2015). Reconstruction of a semi-arid late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake Victoria region, Kenya. (pp. 368-381). Vol. 84, Quaternary Research., 11/01/2015 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Potts R. & Faith J. (2015). Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution. (pp. 5-20). Vol. 87, Journal of Human Evolution., 10/01/2015 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Blegen N., Tryon C., Faith J., Peppe D., Beverly E., Li B. & Jacobs Z. (2015). Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: Correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans. (pp. 89-111). Vol. 122, Quaternary Science Reviews., 08/05/2015
  • Kenya: Faith J., Tryon C., Peppe D., Beverly E., Blegen N., Blumenthal S., Chritz K., Driese S. & Patterson D. (2015). Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa. Vol. 83, Journal of Human Evolution., 06/01/2015 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Garrett N., Fox D., McNulty K., Faith J., Peppe D., Van Plantinga A. & Tryon C. (2015). Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya. (pp. 1-14). Vol. 82, Journal of Human Evolution., 05/01/2015 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Tryon C., Crevecoeur I., Faith J., Ekshtain R., Nivens J., Patterson D., Mbua E. & Spoor F. (2015). Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya). (pp. 2682-2687). Vol. 112, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 03/03/2015
  • Turkey: Wright N., Fairbairn A., Faith J. & Matsumura K. (2015). Woodland modification in Bronze and Iron age central Anatolia: An anthracological signature for the Hittite state?. (pp. 219-230). Vol. 55, Journal of Archaeological Science., 03/01/2015 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Louys J. & Faith J. (2015). Phylogenetic topology mapped onto dietary ecospace reveals multiple pathways in the evolution of the herbivorous niche in African Bovidae. (pp. 140-154). Vol. 53, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research., 01/01/2015
  • Africa: Patterson D., Faith J., Bobe R. & Wood B. (2014). Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: The role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus. (pp. 9-22). Vol. 96, Quaternary Science Reviews., 07/15/2014 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Tryon C., Faith J., Peppe D., Keegan W., Keegan K., Jenkins K., Nightingale S., Patterson D., Van Plantinga A., Driese S., Johnson C. & Beverly E. (2014). Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa. (pp. 20-30). Vol. 331, Quaternary International., 05/08/2014 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Faith J., Tryon C., Peppe D., Beverly E. & Blegen N. (2014). Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. (pp. 213-222). Vol. 21, Journal of Mammalian Evolution., 01/01/2014
  • Africa: Faith J. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews. Vol. 128, 105-121., 01/01/2014 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Australia: Wroe S., Field J., Archer M., Grayson D., Price G., Louys J., Faith J., Webb G., Davidson I. & Mooney S. (2013). Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul. Vol. 110, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 09/03/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Australia: Wroe S., Field J., Archer M., Grayson D., Price G., Louys J., Faith J., Webb G., Davidson I. & Mooney S. (2013). Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene australia-new guinea). (pp. 8777-8781). Vol. 110. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 05/28/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2013). Ungulate diversity and precipitation history since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 68, 191-199., 05/05/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Faith J., Tryon C., Peppe D. & Fox D. (2013). The fossil history of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa. (pp. 359-369). Vol. 40, Journal of Biogeography., 02/01/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2013). Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 65, 715-730., 01/01/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. & Behrensmeyer A. (2013). Climate change and faunal turnover: Testing the mechanics of the turnover-pulse hypothesis with South African fossil data. (pp. 609-627). Vol. 39, Paleobiology., 01/01/2013 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Faith J., Potts R., Plummer T., Bishop L., Marean C. & Tryon C. (2012). New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya. (pp. 84-93). Vol. 361-362, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 11/15/2012 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2012). Palaeozoological insights into management options for a threatened mammal: Southern Africa's Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra). Diversity and Distributions. Vol. 18, 438-447., 05/01/2012 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2012). Conservation implications of fossil roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) in Southern Africa’s Cape Floristic Region. (pp. 239-251). Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation., 01/01/2012 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Australia: Faith J. & O'Connell J. (2011). Revisiting the late Pleistocene mammal extinction record at Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia. (pp. 397-400). Vol. 76, Quaternary Research., 11/01/2011 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2011). Ungulate community richness, grazer extinctions, and human subsistence behavior in southern Africa's Cape Floral Region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 306, 219-227., 06/15/2011 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Faith J., Choiniere J., Tryon C., Peppe D. & Fox D. (2011). Taxonomic status and paleoecology of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya. (pp. 697-707). Vol. 75, Quaternary Research., 05/01/2011
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2011). Late Quaternary dietary shifts of the Cape grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) in southern Africa. Quaternary Research. Vol. 75, 159-165., 01/01/2011 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2011). Ungulate biogeography, statistical methods, and the proficiency of Middle Stone Age hunters. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 60, 315-317., 01/01/2011 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Tanzania: Faith J., Domínguez-Rodrigo M. & Gordon A. (2009). Long-distance carcass transport at Olduvai Gorge? A quantitative examination of Bed I skeletal element abundances. (pp. 247-256). Vol. 56, Journal of Human Evolution., 01/01/2009
  • South Africa: Faith J. (2008). Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: were Middle Stone Age humans ineffective hunters?. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 55, 24-36., 01/01/2008 NATURE & CULTURE ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • France: Faith J. (2007). Changes in reindeer body part representation at Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 34, 2003-2011., 01/01/2007 NATURE & CULTURE
  • Kenya: Faith J. (2007). Sources of variation in carnivore tooth-mark frequencies in a modern spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) den assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 34, 1601-1609., 01/01/2007
  • Kenya: Faith J. & Behrensmeyer A. (2006). Changing patterns of carnivore modification in a landscape bone assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya. (pp. 1718-1733). Vol. 33, Journal of Archaeological Science., 01/01/2006

International Presentations

  • Africa: Faith, J.T. It must have swarmed with great monster: 7 million years of extinctions and ecological change in Africa. Darwin Day Celebration. Natural History Museum of Utah, 02/14/2023 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Karp, A.T., Uno, K.T., Berke, M.A., Russell, J.M., Scholz, C.A., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C. (2022) Rainfall effects on fire activity and disturbance-mediated vegetation states are non-linear across the African Humid Period. Paper: Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. , 10/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T., Chase, B.M., Pargeter, J. An updated synthesis of the paleoenvironmental records from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa. Plenary Lecture, South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa, 09/26/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • South Africa: Luyt, J., Faith, J.T., Braun, D., Sealy, J. (2022) Can seasonal environmental signals be obtained from high resolution intra-tooth isotopic analyses of herbivores? Paper: South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa, 09/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: DeSantis, L.R.G., Stynder, D., O’Brien, K., Mueller, E., Koehler, K., Powell, K., Johnson, S., Davies, B., Braun, D., Faith, J.T. (2022) What were all those grazers eating? Dental microwear texture analysis of Pleistocene herbivores from the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Paper: South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa, 09/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Mosher, S.G., Power, M.J., Quick, L.J., Haberzettl, T., Faith, J.T. (2022) High-resolution sedimentary charcoal proxy records of fire illustrate linkages between burning, climate and pastoralism in the fynbos biome, South Africa. Paper: South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa, 09/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Sokolowski, K., Barr, A., Faith, J.T. (2022) Evaluating environmental drivers of late Quaternary mammal extinctions in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Poster: South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa, 09/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Barr, W.A., Pobiner, B., Rowan, J., Du, A., Faith, J.T. (2022) The zooarchaeological record does not show a sustained increase in carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus. Paper: Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology. Arusha, Tanzania. , 08/2022
  • South Africa: Davies, B., Braun, D.R., Douglass, M., Power, M., Faith, J.T. (2022) Model-based approaches to time-averaged hominin lithic assemblages at Elandsfontein, South Africa. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR. , 04/2022
  • Kenya: O’Brien, K., Hebdon, N., Faith, J.T. (2022) Is Paranthropus boisei an environmental specialist compared to early Homo? Evaluating the faunal evidence from the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya. Paper: American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO. , 03/24/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Mosher, S., Power, M.J., Quick, L.J., Haberzettl, T., Adler, E., Faith, J.T. (2022) Exploring High-Resolution Mid-Holocene Fire-Climate Linkages in the Hyper Biodiverse Fynbos, South Africa. Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section. Las Vegas, NV, 03/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Blegen, N., Faith, JT., Mant-Melville, A., Peppe, D.J. (2022) Tephrostratigraphy and archaeology in the Nyanza Rift, Kenya Paper: Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO., 03/2022
  • Africa: Sokolowski, K., Codding, B., Du, A., Faith, J.T. (2022) Environmental change and hominin evolution: building stronger links through understanding the environmental tolerances of present-day African mammals. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO. , 03/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: O’Brien, K., Hebdon, N., Faith, J.T. (2022) Is Paranthropus boisei an environmental specialist compared to early Homo? Evaluating the faunal evidence from the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya. Poster: Paleoanthropology Society, Denver, CO., 03/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Karp, A., Uno, K., Berke, M., Russell, J., Scholz, C., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C. (2021) Savanna fire activity responds heterogeneously to rainfall shifts during the African Humid Period. Paper: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA. , 12/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Mosher, S.G., Power, M.J., Quick, L.J., Haberzettle, T., Adler, E., Faith, J.T. (2021) Fire in the Fynbos: A high-resolution investigation into mid-Holocene fire activity at Eilandvlei, southern Cape coast, South Africa. Paper: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA., 12/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Global: Karp, A., Faith, J.T., Marlon, J.R., Staver, A.C. (2021) Fire-grazer interactions during the late Quaternary extinctions. Poster: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA. , 12/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Hempel, E., Bibi, F., Faith, J.T., Brink, J., Kalthoff, D.C., Dalén, L., Hofrieter, M., Westbury, M. (2021) On a blue note – A first closer look at the evolutionary history of the blue antelope using whole genome data. Paper: Southern African Wildlife Management Association, Virtual Event. , 09/2021
  • Africa: Staver, A.C. Abraham, K., Hempson, G., Karp, A., Faith, J.T. (2021) The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation. Poster: Ecological Society of America, Virtual Event., 08/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Indonesia: Tocheri, M.W., Sutikna, T., Faith, J.T., France, C., Dupras, T. (2020) The onset of farming in Eastern Indonesia by at least ~2,700 years ago and the implications for Austronesian cultural history and dispersal. Paper: Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Virtual Event., 11/2020
  • Kenya: O’Brien, K., Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Kimeu, B., Rowan, J., Faith, J.T. (2020) First appearance of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. Paper: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Virtual Event. , 11/2020
  • Indonesia: Julianto, I.M.A., Sutikna, T., Faith, J.T., Tocheri, M.W. (2020) The temporal distribution of pottery and aquatic shellfish in the Holocene deposits at Liang Bua indicate major shifts in modern human behavior through time. Paper: Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Virtual Event., 11/2020
  • Indonesia: Sutikna, T., Faith, J.T., SAptomo, E.W., Tocheri, M.W. (2020) Faunal change through the Holocene at Liang Bua: endemic versus introduced mammals. Paper: Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Virtual Event., 11/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Sharp, W.D., Niespolo, E.M., Tryon, C.A., Van Niekerk, K.L., Blegen, N.T., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, C.S. (2020) 230Th/U Burial Dating of Ostrich Eggshell: A New Geochronometer for Pleistocene Archaeological Sites. Poster: Paleoanthropology Society, Los Angeles, CA., 04/2020
  • Kenya: Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Mant-Melville, A., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C.A. (2020) Tephrostratigraphy and archaeology in the Nyanza Rift, Kenya. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Los Angeles, CA. , 04/2020
  • Africa: Faith, J.T. Megafaunal extinctions: the uncertain case for anthropogenic impacts prior to Homo sapiens. Invited Talk: University of the Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Institute. Johannesburg, South Africa. February 10, 2020, 02/10/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Hempel, E., Faith, J.T., Brink, J., Kalthoff, D., Kamminga, P., Bibi, F., Hofreiter, M. (2019) Blue and lonesome – determining the true number of blue antelopes (Hippotragus leucophaeus) in museums today. Paper: German Society for Mammalian Biology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde), Dresden, Germany, 09/16/2019
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T. What drove Africa’s megaherbivores to extinction? Invited Talk: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, MD. March 13, 2019., 03/13/2019 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Tryon, C.A., Lewis, J.E., Ranhorn, K.L., Niespolo, E., Quinn, R., Faith, J.T. (2018) A multi-proxy approach to understanding Late Pleistocene Eastern African paleoenvironments from archaeological sites in Kenya and Tanzania. Paper: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC., 12/10/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Ranhorn, K.L., Mambelli, S., Miller, M.J., Dawson, T.E. (2018) Light stable isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-specific paleoenvironmental records during the Middle-to-Later Stone Age transition in Eastern Africa. Poster: Geological Society of America, Indianapolis, IN., 11/06/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: O’Brien, K., *McGrosky, A., *Allen, K., *Biernat, M., Braun, D.R., *Guerrero, A., Patterson, D.B., Torres, F., Faith, J.T. (2018) Early Pleistocene grassland dynamics at East Turkana: spatiotemporal patterns of mesic- and xeric-adapted ungulates and new insights into niche preferences of Eurygnathohippus and Kolpochoerus. Poster: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Albuquerque, NM., 10/17/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Fylstra, N., Avery, G., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, CS., Klein, R.G., van Niekerk, K., Tryon, C.A. (2018) U-Th burial dating of ostrich eggshell beyond the 14C limit. Paper: Golschmidt Conference, Boston, MA., 08/15/2018
  • Eastern Africa: Johnson, T.C., Berke, M.A., Castaneda, I., Lane, C., Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Beverly, E.J. (2018) Should we drill Lake Victoria? Paper: AFQUA Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 07/20/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Faith, J.T., Du, A., Rowan, J. (2018) Emergence of the functionally modern ungulate community in eastern Africa. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Austin, TX. , 01/08/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., McNeil, J., Tryon, C.A. (2018) New excavations of Late Pleistocene sediments at “Gramly’s Site” (GvJm-22), Lukenya Hill, southeastern Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society, Austin, TX., 01/08/2018
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T., Pargeter, J. (2018) Later Pleistocene behavioral and paleoenvironmental variability at Boomplaas Cave: Evidence from fauna and lithic data. Paper: Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto, ON., 01/01/2018
  • Kenya: Pearson, O.M., Hill, E.C., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A. (2018) A hominin humerus from the late Middle Stone Age of Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Poster: American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX., 01/01/2018
  • Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Fylstra, N., Tryon, C.A., Tripathy-Lang, A., Weisz, D.G., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, C.S., Lewis, J., Mackay, A., Steele, T., Van Niekerk, K., WoldeGabriel, G. (2017) U-Th burial dating of ostrich eggshells: a novel approach to dating African archaeological sequences beyond the 14C limit. Poster: Geological Society of America, Seattle, WA, 10/25/2017
  • Kenya: Mant-Melville, A., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Jenkins, K., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J. (2017) Late Middle Stone Age lithic technology in eastern Lake Victoria, Kenya. Poster: European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Leiden, Holland., 09/21/2017
  • Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Fylstra, N., Tryon, C.A., Weisz, D.G., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, C.S., Lewis, J., Mackay, A., Steele, T., Van Niekerk, K. (2017) Patterns of secondary U in ostrich eggshell: application to U-Th dating of Quaternary terrestrial strata. Poster: Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France, 08/13/2017
  • Kenya: Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T. (2017) Dealing with the scatter between the scatter between the patches: tephrostratigraphic approaches to low-density archaeological sites in the Lake Victoria basin of Equatorial Africa. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 04/02/2017
  • Eastern Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Dawson, T.E. (2017) Using C and N stable isotopes to develop paleoenvironmental records for Late Pleistocene East African rock shelter sequences. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 04/02/2017 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • South Africa: Faith, J.T., Avery, D.M. (2017) The promise and pitfalls of quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstruction in faunal analysis: evaluation of late Quaternary micromammal assemblages from southern Africa. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 03/30/2017 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Dawson, T.E. (2017) C and N stable isotopes in Late Pleistocene – Holocene ostrich eggshells reveal distinct local paleoenvironments in East Africa during the MSA-LSA transition. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, BC. , 03/29/2017 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Mant-Melville, A.F., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Jenkins, K.H., Beverley, E.J., Peppe, D.J. (2017) A Late Middle Stone Age lithic landscape in the eastern Lake Victoria Basin. Poster: Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, BC, 03/28/2017

International Professional Service

  • Africa: Consulting Editor, Palaeontologia Africana, 01/01/2019

International Media

  • Mexico: Science Daily, "Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities", 09/08/2022 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Global: New York Times, "A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption", 02/18/2021 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: Science, "How climate disruptions revolutionized ancient human toolmaking", 10/21/2020 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Eastern Africa: Science Daily, “Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today”, 10/07/2019 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: Science: The decline of Africa’s largest mammals, 11/23/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: USA today: Humans didn’t cause mass animal extinctions in Africa, like previously thought, study says , 11/23/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Africa: BBC News: Humans ‘off the hook’ for African mammal extinction, 11/22/2018 ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Kenya: KSL: U. archaeologist helps shed new light on timeline of human behavior, 03/30/2018
  • South Africa: Scientific American: Invited Commentary on Homo naledi, 05/10/2017

Countries and Regions of Interest

  • Kenya
  • South Africa