Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene

Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene.- Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution.- African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change.- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa.- Stratigraphic variation in Suidae from the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits.- Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia.- Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments.- The effects of collection strategy and effort on faunal recovery.- Serengeti micromammals and their implications for Olduvai paleoenvironments.- Taphonomy and paleoecological context of the Upper Laetolil Beds (Localities 8 and 9), Laetoli in northern Tanzania.- The paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds at Laetoli.- Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi.- Finale and future.