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Title: | Kantis: A new Australopithecus site on the shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya |
Authors: | Mbua, Emma Kusaka, Soichiro Kunimatsu, Yutaka Geraads, Denis Sawada, Yoshihiro Brown, Francis H. Sakai, Tetsuya Boisserie, Jean-Renaud Saneyoshi, Mototaka Omuombo, Christine Muteti, Samuel Hirata, Takafumi Hayashida, Akira Iwano, Hideki Danhara, Tohru Bobe, René Jicha, Brian Nakatsukasa, Masato ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Author's alias: | 中務, 真人 |
Keywords: | Pliocene Hominin Fossils Carbon stable isotope Paleoenvironment |
Issue Date: | May-2016 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. |
Journal title: | Journal of Human Evolution |
Volume: | 94 |
Start page: | 28 |
End page: | 44 |
Abstract: | Most Plio-Pleistocene sites in the Gregory Rift Valley that have yielded abundant fossil hominins lie on the Rift Valley floor. Here we report a new Pliocene site, Kantis, on the shoulder of the Gregory Rift Valley, which extends the geographical range of Australopithecus afarensis to the highlands of Kenya. This species, known from sites in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and possibly Kenya, is believed to be adapted to a wide spectrum of habitats, from open grassland to woodland. The Kantis fauna is generally similar to that reported from other contemporaneous A. afarensis sites on the Rift Valley floor. However, its faunal composition and stable carbon isotopic data from dental enamel suggest a stronger C4 environment than that present at those sites. Although the Gregory Rift Valley has been the focus of paleontologists' attention for many years, surveys of the Rift shoulder may provide new perspective on African Pliocene mammal and hominin evolution |
Description: | ケニア・ナイロビ郊外で初めて発見されたアウストラロピテクス. 京都大学プレスりリス. 2016-03-24. |
Rights: | © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The full-text file will be made open to the public on 1 May 2017 in accordance with publisher's 'Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving'. この論文は出版社版でありません。引用の際には出版社版をご確認ご利用ください。 This is not the published version. Please cite only the published version. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/209815 |
DOI(Published Version): | 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.006 |
PubMed ID: | 27178456 |
Related Link: | http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research/research_results/2015/160324_1.html |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles |

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