2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)
Session No. 63 Monday, November 3, 2003
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Washington State Convention and Trade Center: Ballroom 6B

P6. The Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Framework of Human Evolution

Gail M. Ashley and Craig S. Feibel, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
63-18:00 AM CLIMATE CHANGES DURING HOMINID EVOLUTION: RUDDIMAN, William F., Environmental Sciences, Univ of Virginia, Clark Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903, wfr5c@virginia.edu.
63-28:30 AM THE RECORD OF HUMAN EVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW: WOOD, Bernard, Anthropology, George Washington Univ, 2110 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052, bwood@gwu.edu.
 9:00 AM Discussion
63-39:15 AM STABLE ISOTOPE RECORD OF CLIMATE AND ECOLOGIC CHANGE IN THE TURKANA BASIN: CERLING, Thure E., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S. 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, tcerling@mines.utah.edu, HARRIS, John M., George C. Page Museum, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, and LEAKEY, Meave G., National Museums of Kenya, PO Box 40658, Nairobi, Kenya
63-49:30 AM HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS FROM PALEOSOLS OF KENYA AND ETHIOPIA: WYNN, Jonathan Guy, Research School of Earth Sciences, the Australian National University, Bldg 61 Mills Rd, Canberra 0200, jonathan.wynn@anu.edu.au.
63-59:45 AM PLIO-PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND HOMINID DIETARY NICHES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: LEE-THORP, Julia, Archaeology, Faculty of Sci, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, jlt@science.uct.ac.za.
63-610:00 AM HOMINIDS AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS: THE VIEW FROM THE TUGEN HILLS, KENYA: HILL, Andrew, Department of Anthropology, Yale Univ, Box 208277, New Haven, CT 06520, andrew.hill@yale.edu, DEINO, Alan, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, and KINGSTON, John, Department of Anthropology, Emory Univ, 1557 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
 10:15 AM Break
63-710:30 AM THE IMPORTANCE OF SPRINGS AND WETLANDS IN REDUCING “WATER STRESS” IN HOMINIDS DURING ARID PERIODS: ASHLEY, Gail M., Geological Sciences, Rutgers Univ, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066, gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu.
63-810:45 AM ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE FIRST WAVE OUT-OF-AFRICA: EVIDENCE FROM DMANISI IN THE GEORGIAN CAUCASUS: LORDKIPANIDZE, David O., Geology and Paleontology, Georgian State Museum, 3 Purtseladze St, Tblisi, 380007, geonathist@ip.osgf.ge and FERRING, Reid C., Department of Geography, Univ of North Texas, P.O. Box 305279, Denton, TX 76203-5279
63-911:00 AM ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS OF EARLY PLEISTOCENE HUMAN EVOLUTION IN EAST ASIA: POTTS, Richard, Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB 112, Washington, DC 20560-0112, potts.rick@nmnh.si.edu.
63-1011:15 AM EARLY HUMAN EVOLUTION IN THE AMERICAS: TIMING, GEOLOGY, AND ECOLOGY: DIXON, E. James, Museum, Anthropolgoy and INSTAAR, Univ of Colorardo at Boulder, 450 UCB, 1560 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, jdixon@colorado.edu.
63-1111:30 AM TERRESTRIAL SYSTEM RESPONSE TO GLOBAL CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR HOMININ EVOLUTION: FEIBEL, Craig S., Anthropology and Geological Sciences, Rutgers Univ, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, feibel@rci.rutgers.edu.
 11:45 AM Concluding Remarks

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