Christopher Campisano

Kirk, E.C., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., Egberts, S., Kemp, A.D., Lundeen, I.K., Rodwell, B. (2025). A middle Eocene haplorhine frontal bone from the Tornillo Basin of Texas, and its implications for the phylogenetic relationships of Rooneyia and other Paleogene primates. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186, e70045.

Robinson, J.R., Lazagabaster, I.A., Rowan, J., Lewis M.E., Werdelin, L., Campisano, C.J., Reed, K.E. (2025). Paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 202, 103653.

Kirkpatrick, A.G., Lazagabaster, I.A., Robinson, J.R., Rowan, J., Campisano, C.J., Reed, K.E., Scott, J.R., Ungar, P.S. (2025). Dental microwear of bovids from the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in the Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 670, 112932.

Gilbert, C.C., Ortiz, A., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Fleagle, J.G., Patnaik, R. (2025). Additional analyses of stem catarrhine and hominoid dental morphology support Kapi ramnagarensis as a stem hylobatid. Journal of Human Evolution 199, 103628.

Kappelman, J. and 63 others including Hirniak, J.N. and Campisano, C.J. (2024). Adaptive foraging behaviors in the Horn of Africa during the Toba eruption and the out of Africa dispersal. Nature 628, 365-372.

Rowan, J., Du, A., Lundgren, E.J., Faith, J.T., Beaudrot, L., Campisano, C.J. , Joordens, J., Lazagabaster, I.A., Locke, E.M., Smail, I.E., Reed, K.E., Kamilar, J.M. (2024). Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Rooney, T.O., Brown, E.L., Bastow, I.D., Arrowsmith, J R., Campisano, C.J. (2023). Magmatism during the continent – ocean transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 614,118189

Jimenez-Rodriguez, S., Quade, J., Levin, N.E., Campisano, C.J., Stinchcomb, G.E., Roman, D.C., Bedaso, Z. (2023). Environmental controls on the hydrogen isotopic composition of volcanic glass from the southern Afar rift, eastern Africa. Chemical Geology 628, 121484.

Sehgal, R.K., Singh, A.P., Gilbert, C.C., Patel, B.A., Campisano, C.J., Selig, K.R., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P. (2022). A new genus of treeshrew and other micromammals from the middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar, Udhampur District, Jammu & Kashmir State, India. Journal of Paleontology 6, 1318-1335.

Rowan, J., Lazagabaster, I.A., Campisano, C.J., Bibi, F., Bobe, R., Boisserie, J.R., Frost, S.R., Getachew, T., Gilbert, C.C., Lewis, M.E., Scott, E., Sahleselasie, M., Souron, A., Werdelin, L., Reed, K.E., Kimbel, W.H. (2022). Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. PeerJ 10:e13210.

Cohen, A., Du, A., Rowan, J., Yost, C., Billingsley, A., Campisano, C.J., Brown, E., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Grant, K., Kingston, J., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Owen, R.B., Reed, K., Russell, J., Stockhecke (2022). Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2107393119.

Campisano, C.J., Rowan, J. & Reed, K.E. (2022). The Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia: Geology, fauna, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, in Reynolds, S. and Bobe, R. (eds.) African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, pp. 214-228. 

Drapeau, M., Wynn, J.G., Geraads, D., Campisano, C.J., Bobe, R. (2022). Paleontology and geology of the Mursi Formation, in Reynolds, S. and Bobe, R. (eds.) African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, pp. 278-288.

Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., Asrat, A., Beck, C., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A.L., Deocampo, D.M., Feibel, C.S., Foerster, V., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Russell, J., Schaebitz, F., Stone, J., Trauth, M., Yost, C. (2022). Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in Eastern Africa through scientific drilling. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 50, 451-476.

Zawacki, E.E., van Soest, M.C., Hodges, K.V., Scott, J.J., Barboni, M., Strecker, M.R., Feibel, C.S., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R. (2022). Sediment provenance and volcano-tectonic evolution of the East African Rift System from U/Pb and (U-Th)/He laser ablation double dating of detrital zircons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 50, 117375.

Deocampo, D.M., Owen, R.B., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Rabideaux, N.M., Billingsley, A.L., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., Luo, S., Shen, C., Gebregiorgis, D. Campisano, C.J., Mbuthia, A. (2022). Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya. Geology 50, 42-47.

Muiruri, V.M., Owen, R.B., de Cort, G., Renaut, R.W., Rabideaux, N.M., Lowenstein, T.K., Leet, K., Sier, M., Cohen, A.S., Deocampo, D.M., Campisano, C.J., Billingsley, A.L., Mbuthia, A. (2021). Middle Pleistocene to recent diatoms and stratigraphy of the Magadi Basin, south Kenya Rift. Journal of Paleolimnology 65, 315-333.

Muiruri, V.M., Owen, R.B., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Marchant, R., Rucina, S.M., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., Luo, S. Leet, K., Campisano, C.J., Rabideaux, N.M., Deocampo, D.M., Shen, C., Mbuthia, A., Davis, B.C., Aldossari, W., Wang, C. (2020). A million year vegetation history and palaeoenvironmental record from the Lake Magadi Basin, Kenya Rift Valley. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567; 110247.

Gilbert, C.C., Ortiz, A., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Fleagle, J.G., Patnaik, R. (2020). New Middle Miocene ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the Hominoid fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 287, 20201655.

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.