Table of Contents

Foreword Series Preface Tim White Preface Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday Wolde Gabriel Acknowledgments Introduction Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday Wolde Gabriel Stratigraphy of the Adu-Asa Formation Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Tim White Volcanic Record of the Adu-Asa Formation William K. Hart, Giday WoldeGabriel, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Paul R. Renne Geochronology Paul R. Renne, Leah E. Morgan, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Small Mammals Henry B. Wesselman, Michael T. Black, and Mesfi n Asnake Cercopithecidae Stephen R. Frost, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Leslea Hlusko Hominidae Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim White Contents Carnivora Yohannes Haile-Selassie and F. Clark Howell Bovidae Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Elisabeth S. Vrba, and Faysal Bibi Suidae Yohannes Haile-Selassie Hippopotamidae Jean-Renaud Boisserie and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Giraffi dae Yohannes Haile-Selassie Equidae Raymond L. Bernor and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Rhinocerotidae Ioannis X. Giaourtsakis, Cesur Pehlevan, and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Proboscidea Haruo Saegusa and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Tubulidentata Thomas Lehmann Paleoenvironment Denise F. Su, Stanley H. Ambrose, David DeGusta, and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Paleobiogeography Raymond L. Bernor, Lorenzo Rook, and Yohannes Haile-Selassie Biochronology, Faunal Turnover, and Evolution Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Tim White, Raymond L. Bernor, Lorenzo Rook, and Elisabeth S. Vrba Conclusions Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday Wolde Gabriel Bibliography Index

About the Author

Yohannes Haile-Selassie is Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Giday WoldeGabriel is a geologist at the Earth Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.