Christopher Campisano

Campisano, C.J., Lower Awash Valley Workshop Participants (2019). Geological collaboration at paleoanthropological sites in Ethiopia’s lower Awash Valley. Evolutionary Anthropology 28, 228-232.

Braun, D.R., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Arrowsmith, J R., Baraki, N., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., DiMaggio, E.N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Engda, B., Feary, D.A., Garello, D.I., Kerfelew, Z., McPherron, S.P., Patterson, D.B., Reeves, J.S., Thompson, J.C., Reed, K.E. (2019). Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 11712-11717. 

Gilbert, C.C., Sehgal, R.K., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., May, E., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Patnaik, R. (2019). New Sivapithecus specimen from Ramnagar (Jammu & Kashmir), India and a taxonomic revision of Ramnagar hominoids. Journal of Human Evolution 135, 102665. 

Owen, R.B., Renaut, R.W., Muiruri, V.M., Rabideaux, N.M., Lowenstein, T.K., McNulty, E.P., Leet, K., Deocampo, D., Luo S., Deino, A.L., Cohen, A.S., Sier, M.J., Campisano, C.J., Shen, C., Billingsley, A., Mbuthia, A., Stockhecke, M. (2019). Quaternary history of the Lake Magadi Basin, southern Kenya Rift: Tectonic and climatic controls. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518, 97-118. 

Owen, R.B., Muiruri, V.M., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Rabideaux, N., Luo, S., Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., McNulty, E.P., Leet, K., Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C.J., Deocampo, D., Shen, C.C., Billinsgley, A., Mbuthia, A. Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lazagabaster, I.A., Souron, A., Rowan, J., Robinson, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Reed, K.E. Fossil suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lee Adoyta, Ledi-Geraru, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia: Implications for late Pliocene turnover and paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 504, 186-200. 

Campisano, C.J., Cohen, A.S., Arrowsmith, J R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Brown, E.T., Deino, A.L., Deocampo, D.M., Feibel, C.S., Kingston, J.D., Lamb, H.F., Lowenstein, T.K., Noren, A., Olago, D.O., Owen, R.B., Pelletier, J.D., Potts, R., Reed, K.E., Renaut, R.W., Russell, J.M., Russell, J.L., Shäbitz, F, Stone, J.R., Trauth, M.H., Wynn, J.G. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: High-resolution paleoclimate records from the East African Rift System and their implications for understanding the environmental context of hominin evolution. Paleoanthropology 2017, 1-43. 

Robinson, J.R., Rowan, J., Campisano, C.J., Wynn, J.G. & Reed, K.E. Late Pliocene environmental change during the transition from Australopithecus to Homo. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0159.

Paige, J., Michelaki, K., Campisano, C.J., Barton, M., Heimsath, A. Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehyroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydoxylation dating. Journal of Archaeological Science 79, 44-52.

Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Campisano, C.J., Fleagle, J.G., Rust, K.L., Patnaik, R. New sivaladapid primate from Lower Siwalik deposits surrounding Ramnagar, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Journal of Human Evolution 102, 21-41.

Mohan, J., Stone, J.R., & Campisano, C.J. Three novel species of Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms) belonging to Aulacoseira and Lindavia from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression of Ethiopia. Phytotaxa 272, 235-247.

Wynn, J.G., Reed, K.E., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Bedaso, Z., Wilson, J.N. & Campisano, C.J. Paleodietary flexibility in the face of paleoecological change: Evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 99, 93-106. 

Rowan, J., Locke, E.M., Robinson, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Wynn, J.G. & Reed, K.E. (2016). Fossil Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lee Adoyta, Ledi-Geraru and late Pliocene dietary evolution in giraffids from the lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 

Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C.J. + 59 others (2016). The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. Scientific Drilling 21, 1-16.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Rowan, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A.L., Bibi, F., Lewis, M., Souron, A., Werdelin, L., Reed, K.E. & Arrowsmith, J.R. Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia. Science 347, 1355-1359. 

Villmoare, B., Kimbel, W.H., Seyoum, C., Campisano, C.J., DiMaggio, E.N., Rowan, J., Braun, D.R., Arrowsmith, J.R. & Reed, K.E. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science 347, 1352-1355.

Campisano, C.J., Kirk, E.C., Townsend, K.E.B., and Deino, A.L. (2014). Geochronological and taxonomic revisions of the Middle Eocene Whistler Squat Quarry (Devil's Graveyard Formation, Texas) and implications for the Early Uintan in Trans-Pecos Texas. PLOS One.

Drapeau, M.S.M., Bobe, R., Wynn, J.G., Campisano, C.J., Dumouchel, L., and Geraads, D. (2014). The Omo Mursi Formation: A window into the East African Pliocene. Journal of Human Evolution 75, 64-79.

Campisano, C.J. (2012). Geological summary of the Busidima Formation (Plio-Pleistocene) at the Hadar Paleoanthropological Site, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 62, 338-352.

Campisano, C.J. and Feibel, C.S. (2008). Tephrostratigraphy of the Hadar and Busidima Formation at Hadar, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. In: The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa (J. Quade and J.G. Wynn, Eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 135-162.

Campisano, C.J. and Feibel, C.S. (2008). Depositional environments and stratigraphic summary of the Hadar Formation at Hadar, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. In: The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa (J. Quade and J.G. Wynn, Eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 179-201.

DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., Reed, K.E., Swisher, C.C. III, and Lockwood, C.A. (2008). Correlation and stratigraphy of the BKT-2 volcanic complex in west-central Afar, Ethiopia. In: The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa (J. Quade and J.G Wynn, Eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 163-177.

Roman, D., Campisano, C.J., Quade, J., DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J.R., and Feibel, C.S. (2008). Composite Tephrostratigraphy of the Dikika, Gona, Hadar, and Ledi-Geraru project areas, northern Awash, Ethiopia. In: The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa (J. Quade and J.G Wynn, Eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 119-134.

Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., DiMaggio, E.N., Reed, K.E., Lockwood, C.A., Franke, C., and Hüsing, S. (2008). Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia) and implications for hominin paleoenvironments. In: The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa (J. Quade and J.G Wynn, Eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, pp. 67-85.

Campisano, C.J. and Feibel, C.S. (2007). Connecting local environmental sequences to global climate patterns: Evidence from the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 53, 515-527.