Zeresenay Alemseged
Biographic Data
| ID | 83456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zeresenay Alemseged |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zeresenay |
| FAMILY NAME | Alemseged |
| SIGNATURE | ALEMSEGED Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0460-9791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 442 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Bovid astragalus ecomorphology as a proxy for submember-scale habitat variability in Member G of the Shungura Formation, Southwestern Ethiopia
Clavicular evidence for continued arboreality in Australopithecus afarensis
Locomotor adaptation in the hominoid clavicle through ontogeny
Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene
On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis–Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to
Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage
Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins
A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships
Comparative morphology and ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in great apes, humans, and fossil hominins
Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins
The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (e.g., similar sized or larger than the consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use, another important hominin behavior, is often portrayed as being functionally related to this by the necessity of a sharp edge for cutting animal tissue. However, most research on both issues emphasizes sites that postdate ca. 2.0 million years ago. This paper critically examines…
Diversity analysis of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal communities in the Omo-Turkana Basin, eastern Africa
Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia
Digital data collection in paleoanthropology
Understanding patterns of human evolution across space and time requires synthesizing data collected by independent research teams, and this effort is part of a larger trend to develop cyber infrastructure and e‐science initiatives. At present, paleoanthropology cannot easily answer basic questions about the total number of fossils and artifacts that have been discovered, or exactly how those items were collected. In this paper, we examine the me…
Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia
Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars
Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
Paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and abundance analysis of bovids from the Shungura Formation of South Omo, Ethiopia
Early Hominins
History In this chapter, the term “early hominins” refers to all fossil human ancestor species except for those belonging to the genus Homo . In his book The Descent of Man , published in 1871, Charles Darwin predicted that fossils of the earliest human ancestors would be discovered somewhere in Africa (Darwin 1871). This speculation was put forth based mainly on his observations of the physical similarities between living humans and African grea…
The Cambridge World Prehistory 3 Volume Set
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and …
Australopithecus in Ethiopia
Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets
Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of isotopic data from eastern Africa allowed for broad taxonomic, temporal, and regional comparisons among hominins. Before 4 Ma, hominins had diets that were dominated by C 3 resources and were, in that sense, similar to extant chimpanzees. By about 3.5 Ma, multiple homi…
Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: Implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resourc…
Australopithecus afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution
Climbing Like an Ape Recently, studies of several early human leg and foot fossils have implied that in some early species—even after humans became bipedal—climbing may have still been important. Shoulder bones, which would provide i mportant complementary information, are scarce, however. One of the few examples is from Australopithecus afarensis skeleton (DIK-1-1), which includes both scapula. Green and Alemseged (p. 514 ; see the Perspective o…
A platform for East African paleoanthropology: Third biannual conference of the Eaapp
An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution
Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins
The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (e.g., similar sized or larger than the consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use, another important hominin behavior, is often portrayed as being functionally related to this by the necessity of a sharp edge for cutting animal tissue. However, most research on both issues emphasizes sites that postdate ca. 2.0 million years ago. This paper critically examines…
Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars
A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context
Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia
Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: Implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resourc…
Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage
Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia
Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Theropithecus atlanticus (Thomas, 1884) (Primates): (Cercopithecidae) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Casablanca, Morocco
Hominid cranium from Omo: Description and taxonomy of Omo‐323‐1976‐896
Omo‐323‐1976‐896, a partial hominid cranium dated to ca. 2.1 from the Member G, Unit G‐8 of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo Basin of Ethiopia, is described. It is suggested that the specimen is an adult male based on the well‐developed and completely fused sagittal crest; heavily worn teeth; relatively large canine; and size of the articular eminence. Omo‐323 consists of fragments of the frontal, both temporals, occipital, parietals, and the ri…
Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins
A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships
Comparative morphology and ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in great apes, humans, and fossil hominins
Diversity analysis of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal communities in the Omo-Turkana Basin, eastern Africa
Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene
Paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and abundance analysis of bovids from the Shungura Formation of South Omo, Ethiopia
Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments
Locomotor adaptation in the hominoid clavicle through ontogeny
Second conference of the East African association for paleoanthropology and paleontology: Fifty years after discovery of Zinjanthropus
A new association for East African paleoanthropology and paleontology
Theropithecus atlanticus (Thomas, 1884) (Primates): (Cercopithecidae) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Casablanca, Morocco
Les Hominidés plio-pléistocènes de la basse vallée de l'Omo (Éthiopie) et leurs environnements ; Plio-pleistocene hominids of the lower Omo valley (Ethiopia) and their environments
Omo-323, a fragmentary cranium of a Hominid from the Shungura Formation is described and is attributed to A. boisei. Based on univariate and multivariate analyses, an attempt is made to reconstruct paleoenvironments of the time period represented by the Shungura Formation. The results of these studies indicate that the most important environmental change that considerably affected the faunal composition occurred around 2.3 Ma
Hominid cranium from Omo: Description and taxonomy of Omo‐323‐1976‐896
Omo‐323‐1976‐896, a partial hominid cranium dated to ca. 2.1 from the Member G, Unit G‐8 of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo Basin of Ethiopia, is described. It is suggested that the specimen is an adult male based on the well‐developed and completely fused sagittal crest; heavily worn teeth; relatively large canine; and size of the articular eminence. Omo‐323 consists of fragments of the frontal, both temporals, occipital, parietals, and the ri…
An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution
Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context
A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia
Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene
Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments
Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia
A new association for East African paleoanthropology and paleontology
Diet in Early Hominin Species: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective
Second conference of the East African association for paleoanthropology and paleontology: Fifty years after discovery of Zinjanthropus
Australopithecus afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution
Climbing Like an Ape Recently, studies of several early human leg and foot fossils have implied that in some early species—even after humans became bipedal—climbing may have still been important. Shoulder bones, which would provide i mportant complementary information, are scarce, however. One of the few examples is from Australopithecus afarensis skeleton (DIK-1-1), which includes both scapula. Green and Alemseged (p. 514 ; see the Perspective o…
A platform for East African paleoanthropology: Third biannual conference of the Eaapp
Australopithecus in Ethiopia
Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets
Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of isotopic data from eastern Africa allowed for broad taxonomic, temporal, and regional comparisons among hominins. Before 4 Ma, hominins had diets that were dominated by C 3 resources and were, in that sense, similar to extant chimpanzees. By about 3.5 Ma, multiple homi…
Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: Implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resourc…
Early Hominins
History In this chapter, the term “early hominins” refers to all fossil human ancestor species except for those belonging to the genus Homo . In his book The Descent of Man , published in 1871, Charles Darwin predicted that fossils of the earliest human ancestors would be discovered somewhere in Africa (Darwin 1871). This speculation was put forth based mainly on his observations of the physical similarities between living humans and African grea…
The Cambridge World Prehistory 3 Volume Set
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and …
Digital data collection in paleoanthropology
Understanding patterns of human evolution across space and time requires synthesizing data collected by independent research teams, and this effort is part of a larger trend to develop cyber infrastructure and e‐science initiatives. At present, paleoanthropology cannot easily answer basic questions about the total number of fossils and artifacts that have been discovered, or exactly how those items were collected. In this paper, we examine the me…
Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia
Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars
Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
Paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and abundance analysis of bovids from the Shungura Formation of South Omo, Ethiopia
Biology (31 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (31 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (25 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (22 works) · Paleontology (18 works) · Paleontology (18 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Evolutionary biology (17 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Geography (14 works)