Tyler Faith portrait
  • Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
  • Chief Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand

Publications

  • Faith, J.T. & Chase, B.M., Pargeter, J. (2024). The Last Glacial Maximum climate at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Accepted, 02/16/2024.
  • Abraham, J.O. & Rowan, J., O'Brien, K., Sokolowski, K., Faith, J.T. (2024). Environmental context shapes the relationships between grass consumption and body size in African herbivore communities. Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 14, e11050. Published, 02/15/2024.
  • Kunutz, S., & Pobiner, B., Yellen, J., Faith, J.T., Brooks, A.S. (2023). An ethnoarchaeological comparison of observed butchery actions to bone surface modifications of the Dobe !Kung San. Historical Biology. Published, 11/24/2023.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912...
  • O'Brien, K. & Irmis, R., Brenner-Coltrain, J., Dalmas, D., Derieg, K., Evans, T., Richards, E., Richards, F., Rickart, R., Faith, J.T. (2023). The utility of alpine cave fossil assemblages for zoological census: an example from northern Utah, United States. Journal of Mammalogy. Vol. 104, 1230-1245. Published, 11/21/2023.
  • Sokolowski, K. & Codding, B.F., Du, A., Faith, J.T. (2023). Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 629, 111786. Published, 11/01/2023.
  • Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A. (2023). Late Cenozoic faunal and ecological change in Africa. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Accepted, 08/30/2023.
  • O'Brien, K. & Podkovyroff, K., Fernandez, D.P., Tryon, C.A., Ashioya, L., Faith, J.T. (2023). Migratory behavior in the enigmatic late Pleistocene bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology. Vol. 2, 1237714. Published, 08/01/2023.
  • 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. Published, 04/01/2023.
  • 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. Published, 03/15/2023.
  • 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. Published, 12/01/2022.
  • 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. Published, 09/09/2022.
  • 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. Published, 08/01/2022.
  • Faith, J.T., & Du, A. (2022) The Potential of Coverage-Based Rarefaction in Zooarchaeology. In: Eren, M.I., Buchanan, B. (Eds.) Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology: Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture. Berghan Books. Published, 07/18/2022.
  • 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. Published, 07/08/2022.
  • 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. Published, 05/19/2022.
  • 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. Published, 05/19/2022.
  • 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. Published, 04/2022.
  • 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. Published, 03/2022.
  • 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. Published, 03/2022.
  • 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. Published, 02/2022.
  • 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. Published, 02/2022.
  • 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. Published, 01/2022.
  • 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. Published, 11/26/2021.
  • 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. Published, 09/2021.
  • 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. Published, 09/01/2021.
  • 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. Published, 08/2021.
  • 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. Published, 04/2021.
  • 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. Published, 03/15/2021.
  • 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. Published, 03/15/2021.
  • 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. Published, 02/19/2021.
  • 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. Published, 02/18/2021.
  • 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. Published, 01/22/2021.
  • 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. Published, 01/19/2021.
  • Douglass, M. & Davies, B., Braun, D.R., Faith, J.T., Power, M., Reeves, J. (2021). Deriving original nodule size of lithic reduction sets from cortical curvature: an application to monitor stone artifact transport from bipolar reduction. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Vol. 35, 102671. Published, 01/01/2021.
  • Fraser, D. & Soutl, LC., Tóth, A.B., Balk, M.A., Eronen, J.T., Pineda-Munoz, S., Shupinski, A.B., Villaseñor, A., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Gotelli, N.J., Graves, G.R. Jukar, A.M., Looy, C.V., Miller, J.H., Potts, R., Lyons, S.K. (2021). Investigating biotic interactions in deep time. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Vol. 36, 61-75. Published, 01/2021.
  • 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. Published, 12/08/2020.
  • 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. Published, 11/2020.
  • 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. Published, 10/21/2020.
  • 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. Published, 09/2020.
  • 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. Published, 08/28/2020.
  • 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. Published, 07/01/2020.
  • 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. Accepted, 05/12/2020.
  • 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. Published, 05/01/2020.
  • 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. Published, 02/18/2020.
  • 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. Published, 02/15/2020.
  • 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. Published, 01/15/2020.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2020.
  • 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. Published, 11/12/2019.
  • 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. Published, 11/01/2019.
  • 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. Published, 10/07/2019.
  • Tóth, A.B. & Lyons, S.K., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Blois, J.L., Bobe, R., Davis, M., Eronen, J.T., Faith, J.T., Fraser, D., Gotelli, N.J., Graves, G., Jukar, A.M., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Soul, L.C., Villasenor, A., Alroy, J. (2019). Reassembly of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene mass extinction. Science. Vol. 365, 1305-1308. Published, 09/20/2019.
  • Sharp, W.D. & Tryon, C.A., Niespolo, E.M., Fylstra, N.D., Tripathy-Lang, A., Faith, J.T. (2019). 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 219, 263-276. Published, 09/01/2019.
  • Faith, J.T. & Du, A., Rowan, J. (2019). Addressing the effects of sampling on ecometric-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 528, 175-185. Published, 08/15/2019.
  • 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. Published, 03/01/2019.
  • Faith, J.T. & Lyman, R.L. (2019). Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques. Cambridge University Press. Published, 02/21/2019.
  • 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. Accepted, 02/15/2019.
  • 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. Published, 11/23/2018.
  • 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. Published, 11/01/2018.
  • Faith, J.T. (2018). We need to critically evaluate our assumptions: reply to Blumenthal et al. (2018). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 506, 252-253. Published, 10/01/2018.
  • Lyman, R.L. & Faith, J.T. (2018). Observations on graphing paleozoological data: Suggestions for better graphs. Geobios. Vol. 51, 435-451. Published, 10/01/2018.
  • Faith, J.T. & Du, A. (2018). The measurement of taxonomic evenness in zooarchaeology. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 10, 1419-1428. Published, 09/01/2018.
  • 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. Published, 06/06/2018.
  • 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. Published, 03/15/2018.
  • 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. Published, 01/15/2018.
  • 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. Published, 01/15/2018.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2018.
  • Faith, J.T., Thompson, J.C. (2018) Low-survival skeletal elements track attrition, not carcass transport behavior in Quaternary large mammal assemblages. In: Giovas, C.M., LeFebre, M. (Eds.) Zooarchaeology in Practice: Case Studies in Methodology and Interpretation in Archaeofaunal Analysis. Springer. Pages 109-126. Published, 01/01/2018.
  • 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. Published, 11/21/2017.
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart...
  • 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. Published, 10/01/2017.
  • Thompson J., Faith J., Cleghorn N. & Hodgkins J. (2017). Identifying the accumulator: Making the most of bone surface modification data. (pp. 105-113). Vol. 85, Journal of Archaeological Science. Published, 09/01/2017.
  • 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. Published, 08/01/2017.
  • 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. Published, 08/01/2017.
  • 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. Published, 07/01/2017.
  • 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. Published, 07/01/2017.
  • 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. Published, 02/28/2017.
  • 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. Published, 12/16/2016.
  • 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. Published, 11/15/2016.
  • 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. Published, 11/01/2016.
  • 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. Published, 07/05/2016.
  • 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. Published, 07/01/2016.
  • 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. Published, 05/15/2016.
  • 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. Published, 05/15/2016.
  • 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. Published, 05/01/2016.
  • 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. Published, 02/22/2016.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2016.
  • 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. Published, 11/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 10/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 08/05/2015.
  • 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. Published, 06/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 05/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 03/03/2015.
  • 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. Published, 03/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2015.
  • 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. Published, 07/15/2014.
  • 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. Published, 05/08/2014.
  • Blois J., Gotelli N., Behrensmeyer A., Faith J., Lyons S., Williams J., Amatangelo K., Bercovici A., Du A., Eronen J., Graves G., Jud N., Labandeira C., Looy C., Mcgill B., Patterson D., Potts R., Riddle B., Terry R., Tóth A., Villaseñor A. & Wing S. (2014). A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary. (pp. 1095-1108). Vol. 37, Ecography. Published, 01/01/2014.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2014.
  • Faith J. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews. Vol. 128, 105-121. Published, 01/01/2014.
  • Faith J.T. (2014) North American terminal Pleistocene extinctions: current views. In: Smith, C. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York. Pages 5426-5435. Published, 01/01/2014.
  • 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. Published, 09/03/2013.
  • 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. Published, 05/28/2013.
  • 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. Published, 05/05/2013.
  • 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. Published, 02/01/2013.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2013.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2013.
  • 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. Published, 11/15/2012.
  • 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. Published, 05/01/2012.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2012.
  • Faith J. (2012). The 1950 excavation of OpD by Adan Treganza. (pp. 9-19). Is It a House? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington. Published, 01/01/2012.
  • 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. Published, 11/01/2011.
  • 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. Published, 06/15/2011.
  • Faith J. (2011). Late Pleistocene climate change, nutrient cycling, and the megafaunal extinctions in North America. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 30, 1675-1680. Published, 06/01/2011.
  • 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. Published, 05/01/2011.
  • Faith J. (2011). Late Quaternary dietary shifts of the Cape grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) in southern Africa. Quaternary Research. Vol. 75, 159-165. Published, 01/01/2011.
  • Faith J. (2011). Ungulate biogeography, statistical methods, and the proficiency of Middle Stone Age hunters. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 60, 315-317. Published, 01/01/2011.
  • Faith J. & Surovell T. (2009). Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals. (pp. 20641-20645). Vol. 106, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Published, 12/08/2009.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2009.
  • Faith J. (2008). Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: were Middle Stone Age humans ineffective hunters?. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 55, 24-36. Published, 01/01/2008.
  • Faith J. (2007). Changes in reindeer body part representation at Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 34, 2003-2011. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • Faith J. & Gordon A. (2007). Skeletal element abundances in archaeofaunal assemblages: economic utility, sample size, and assessment of carcass transport strategies. (pp. 872-882). Vol. 34, Journal of Archaeological Science. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • Faith J., Marean C. & Behrensmeyer A. (2007). Carnivore competition, bone destruction, and bone density. (pp. 2025-2034). Vol. 34, Journal of Archaeological Science. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • 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. Published, 01/01/2006.

Research Keywords

  • Paleoecology
  • Paleontology
  • Zooarchaeology
  • Paleoanthropology
  • Taphonomy

Presentations

  • Koehler, K., Faith, J.T., Braun, D.R., Schwartz, A.F., O’Brien, K., Sokolowski, K., Davies, B., Stynder, D., DeSantis, L. Dental microwear texture analysis of Pleistocene carnivores on the west coast of South Africa. Paper: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/2023.
  • de Jager, D, Black, W, Seconna, W, Faith, JT, *O’Brien, K, Lorenzen, E. (2023) Palaeogenomes of a lost world: Ancient bovids of the submerged Palaeo-Agulhas Plain of southern Africa. Paper: International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology, Tartu, Estonia. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2023.
  • Beard, T., Stratford, D., Mentzer, S., Faith, J.T., Chase, B., Pargeter, J. (2023) Geoarchaeological perspectives on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa. Paper: INQUA, Rome. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/2023.
  • 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. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/14/2023.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/2022.
  • 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. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/26/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2022.
  • Davies, B., Norwood, A., Luyt, J., Sealy, J., Braun, D., Faith, J.T. (2022) Simulating death assemblages of herbivore teeth to improve expectations for intra-tooth isotopic analysis of fossil samples. Paper: South African Society for Quaternary Research, St Lucia, South Africa. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2022.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 09/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/24/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/2022.
  • Blegen, N., Faith, JT., Mant-Melville, A., Peppe, D.J. (2022) Tephrostratigraphy and archaeology in the Nyanza Rift, Kenya Paper: Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/2022.
  • Du, A., Friedlander, E., Faith, J.T. (2022) Evaluating a commonly used method for placing confidence intervals on the ends of hominin temporal ranges. Poster: Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO. Poster, Presented, 03/2022.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 03/2022.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2021.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2021.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 12/2021.
  • O’Brien, K., Irmis, R.B., Coltrain, J.B., *Dalmas, D.M., Evans, T., Richards, E.S., Richards, F.M., Faith, J.T. (2021) Ecological census implications, site description, and systematic paleontology of Boomerang Cave, a vertebrate assemblage in Cache County, Utah, USA. Paper: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Virtual Event. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/2021.
  • O’Brien, K., Irmis, R.B., Coltrain, J.B., *Dalmas, D.M., Evans, T., Richards, E.S., Richards, F.M., Faith, J.T. (2021) Ecological census implications, site description, and systematic paleontology of Boomerang Cave, a vertebrate assemblage in Cache County, Utah, USA. Paper: Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Virtual Event. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2021.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2021.
  • Fraser, D., Villaseñor, A., Tóth, A., 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., McGill, B.J., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Shipinksi, A.B., Soul, L.C., Lyons, S.K. (2021) Late Quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Paper: Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Virtual Event. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2021.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 08/2021.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2020.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2020.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2020.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2020.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/2020.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/2020.
  • 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. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/10/2020.
  • Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Glass, R., Crow, C., Jacobsen, B., Weisz, D., Tryon, C.A., Avery, G., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, C., Klein, R., Lewis, J., Mackay, A., Ranhorn, K., Steele, T., Van Niekerk, K., White, T., Woldegabriel, G. (2019) Patterns of U uptake and implications for diagenesis and trace element records in biomineral eggshell. Paper: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/11/2019.
  • Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Fylstra, N., Armitage, S., Avery, G., Faith, J.T., Henshilwood, C., Klein, R., Lewis, J., Mackay, A., Ranhorn, K., Steele, T., Van Niekerk, K., White, T., Woldegabriel, G. (2019) Evaluating 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell, a new chronometer for Pleistocene terrestrial strata. Paper: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/09/2019.
  • Sharp, W., Tripathy-Lang, A., Fylstra, N.D., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., *Niespolo, E. (2019) 230Th/U Burial Dating of Ostrich Eggshell: Initial Tests of a Novel Pleistocene Geochronometer. Poster: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Poster, Presented, 12/09/2019.
  • Davies, B., Douglass, M., Holdaway, S., Braun, D., Faith, J.T., Power, M. (2019) A model-based approach to exploring transitions in mobility and occupation intensity using lithic geometric attributes. Poster: Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Annual Symposium, Boise, ID. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/18/2019.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/16/2019.
  • Sharp, W., Tripathy-Lang, A., Fylstra, N.D., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Niespolo, E. (2019) 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell. Paper: Gordon Research Conference – Geochronology, Waterville Valley, NH. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/07/2019.
  • O’Brien, K., Hebdon, N., Bui, K., Faith, J.T. (2019) Specialization and niche partitioning of Homo and Paranthropus in the Early Pleistocene of East Turkana. Paper: East African Association of Paleoanthropology and Paleontology, Nairobi, Kenya. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/02/2019.
  • Faith, J.T., Du, A. (2019) Coverage-based rarefaction in zooarchaeology: potential and pitfalls. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/13/2019.
  • Braun, D.R., Faith, J.T., Davies, B., Power, M.J., Douglass, M. (2019) Building expectations to understand the evolutionary significance of archaeological assemblages. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/12/2019.
  • Faith, J.T. What drove Africa’s megaherbivores to extinction? Invited Talk: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, MD. March 13, 2019. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/13/2019.
  • Tóth, A.B., Lyons, S.K., Jukar, A.M., Du, A., Barr, W.A., Villaseñor, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fraser, D., Miller, J., Soul, L., Gotelli, N., Pineda-Munoz, S., Blois, J.L., Davis, M., Eronen, J., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Alroy, J. (2019) End-Pleistocene mass extinction caused a fundamental shift in survivor mammal community structure. Paper: International Biogeography Society, Malaga, Spain. Conference Paper, Presented, 01/08/2019.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/10/2018.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/06/2018.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 10/17/2018.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/15/2018.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/20/2018.
  • Faith, J.T., Du, A., Rowan, J. (2018) Emergence of the functionally modern ungulate community in eastern Africa. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Austin, TX. Conference Paper, Accepted, 01/08/2018.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Accepted, 01/08/2018.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Accepted, 01/01/2018.
  • 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. Poster, Accepted, 01/01/2018.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 10/25/2017.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 09/21/2017.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/13/2017.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/02/2017.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/02/2017.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/30/2017.
  • 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/29/2017.
  • 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. Poster, Presented, 03/28/2017.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Kenya
  • South Africa