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A Pleistocene palaeovegetation record from plant wax biomarkers from the Nachukui
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Uno KT
; Polissar PJ
; Kahle E
; Feibel C
; Harmand S
; Roche H
; deMenocal PB
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
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Reconstructing vegetation at hominin fossil sites provides us critical
information about hominin palaeoenvironments and the potential role of climate in
their evolution. Here we reconstruct vegetation from carbon isotopes of plant wax
biomarkers in sediments of the Nachukui Formation in the Turkana Basin. Plant wax
biomarkers were extracted from samples from a wide range of lithologies that
include fluvial-lacustrine sediments and palaeosols, and therefore provide a
record of vegetation from diverse depositional environments. Carbon isotope
ratios from biomarkers indicate a highly dynamic vegetation structure (ca 5-100%
C4 vegetation) from 2.3 to 1.7 Ma, with an overall shift towards more C4
vegetation on the landscape after about 2.1 Ma. The biomarker isotope data
indicate ca 25-30% more C4 vegetation on the landscape than carbon isotope data
of pedogenic carbonates from the same sequence. Our data show that the
environments of early Paranthropus and Homo in this part of the Turkana Basin
were primarily mixed C3-C4 to C4-dominated ecosystems. The proportion of C4-based
foods in the diet of Paranthropus increases through time, broadly paralleling the
increase in C4 vegetation on the landscape, whereas the diet of Homo remains
unchanged. Biomarker isotope data associated with the Kokiselei archaeological
site complex, which includes the site where the oldest Acheulean stone tools to
date were recovered, indicate 61-97% C4 vegetation on the landscape.This article
is part of the themed issue 'Major transitions in human evolution'.