Publicaties
2023
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bobe, R., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Anemone, R. L., Archer, W., Aumaître, G., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Bourlès, D. L., Doyle Boyd, M., Braun, D. R., Capelli, C., d'Oliveira Coelho, J., Habermann, J. M., Head, J. J., Keddadouche, K., Kupczik, K., Lebatard, A. E., Lüdecke, T., ... Carvalho, S. (2023).
The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift.
iScience,
26(9), 1-29. Article 107644.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644Cherin, M., Basilici, G., Duval, M., Shao, Q.
, Sier, M. J., Parés, J. M., Gliozzi, E., Mazzini, I., Magri, D., Di Rita, F., Iurino, D. A., Azzarà, B., Margaritelli, G., & Pazzaglia, F. (2023).
The dawn of the Late Villafranchian: Paleoenvironment and age of the Pantalla paleontological site (Italy; Early Pleistocene).
Quaternary Science Reviews,
316, Article 108279.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108279Villaseñor, A., Uno, K. T., Kinyanjui, R. N., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Bobe, R.
, Advokaat, E. L., Bamford, M., Carvalho, S. C., Hammond, A. S.
, Palcu, D. V., Sier, M. J., Ward, C. V., & Braun, D. R. (2023).
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin.
Journal of Human Evolution,
180, 1-19. Article 103385.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103385https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428804/1_s2.0_S0047248423000647_main.pdf?sequence=12022
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Deocampo, D. M., Owen, R. B., Lowenstein, T. K., Renaut, R. W., Rabideaux, N. M., Billingsley, A., Cohen, A., Deino, A. L.
, Sier, M. J., Luo, S., Shen, C. C., Gebregiorgis, D., Campisano, C., & Mbuthia, A. (2022).
Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya.
Geology,
50(1), 42-47.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G49140.12021
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Reidsma, F. H., Sifogeorgaki, I., Dinckal, A., Huisman, H.
, Sier, M. J., van Os, B., & Dusseldorp, G. L. (2021).
Making the Invisible Stratigraphy Visible: A Grid-Based, Multi-Proxy Geoarchaeological Study of Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, South Africa.
Frontiers in Earth Science,
9, Article 664105.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.664105 Muiruri, V. M., Owen, R. B., de Cort, G., Renaut, R. W., Rabideaux, N. M., Lowenstein, T. K., Leet, K.
, Sier, M., Cohen, A., Deocampo, D., Campisano, C. J., Billingsley, A., & Mbuthia, A. (2021).
Middle Pleistocene to recent diatoms and stratigraphy of the Magadi Basin, south Kenya Rift.
Journal of Paleolimnology,
65(3), 315-333.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00173-7Muiruri, V. M., Owen, R. B., Lowenstein, T. K., Renaut, R. W., Marchant, R., Rucina, S. M., Cohen, A., Deino, A. L.
, Sier, M. J., Luo, S., Leet, K., Campisano, C., Rabideaux, N. M., Deocampo, D., Shen, C. C., Mbuthia, A., Davis, B. C., Aldossari, W.
, & Wang, C. (2021).
A million year vegetation history and palaeoenvironmental record from the Lake Magadi Basin, Kenya Rift Valley.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
567, Article 110247.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110247Deino, A. L.
, Sier, M. J., Garello, D. I., Keller, C. B., Kingston, J. D., Scott, J. J.
, Dupont-Nivet, G., & Cohen, A. S. (2021).
Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
570, Article 109519.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109519Sier, M. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Langereis, C., Deino, A. L., Kingston, J. D., & Cohen, A. S. (2021).
Magnetostratigraphy of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi core (Kenya).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
570, 1-12. Article 110190.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110190 2020
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J. G., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Andrew Barr, W., Bobe, R., McPherron, S. P., Deino, A., Alene, M.
, J. Sier, M., Roman, D., & Mohan, J. (2020).
Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins.
Nature Communications,
11(1), Article 2480.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16060-8Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium (2020).
ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: A late Miocene-present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lake.
Scientific Drilling,
27, 53-60.
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-53-2020Parés, J. M., Campaña, I., Duval, M.
, Sier, M. J., Ortega, A. I., López, G. I., & Rosell, J. (2020).
Comparing depositional modes of cave sediments using magnetic anisotropy.
Journal of Archaeological Science,
123, Article 105241.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.1052412019
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bernhart Owen, R., 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.
, Sier, M. J., Campisano, C., Shen, C. 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.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.017Lewis, S. G., Ashton, N., Field, M. H., Hoare, P. G., Kamermans, H., Knul, M., Mücher, H. J., Parfitt, S. A., Roebroeks, W.
, & Sier, M. J. (2019).
Human occupation of northern Europe in MIS 13: Happisburgh Site 1 (Norfolk, UK) and its European context.
Quaternary Science Reviews,
211, 34-58.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.028Deino, A. L.
, Sier, M. J., Garello, D., Keller, B., Kingston, J.
, Scott, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., & Cohen, A. (2019).
Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
532, Article 109258.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.1092582018
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Owen, R. B., Muiruri, V. M., Lowenstein, T. K., Renaut, R. W., Rabideaux, N., Luo, S., Deino, A. L.
, Sier, M. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Mcnulty, E. P., Leet, K., Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Deocampo, D., Shen, C. C., Billingsley, A., & Mbuthia, A. (2018).
Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
115(44), 11174-11179.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801357115Parés, J. M., Álvarez, C.
, Sier, M., Moreno, D., Duval, M., Woodhead, J. D., Ortega, A. I., Campaña, I., Rosell, J., Bermúdez de Castro, J. M., & Carbonell, E. (2018).
Chronology of the cave interior sediments at Gran Dolina archaeological site, Atapuerca (Spain).
Quaternary Science Reviews,
186, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.0042017
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sier, M. J., Langereis, C. G., Dupont-Nivet, G., Feibel, C. S., Joordens, J. C. A., van der Lubbe, J. H. J. L., Beck, C. C., Olago, D., Cohen, A., & WTK Science Team Members (2017).
The top of the Olduvai Subchron in a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the West Turkana core WTK13, hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP).
Quaternary Geochronology,
42, 117-129.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.08.004 2016
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Johnson, R., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Noren, A., Olago, D., Owen, R. B., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Schäbitz, F., ... Zinaye, B. (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.
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-21-1-2016Overige resultaten
Cohen, K. M., Peeters, J., Sier, M. J., Hijma, M. P., & Busschers, F. S. (2016).
Intercomparing the boundaries of the youngest two interglacials: Base MIS1 vs Base MIS5e, Base Holocene vs Base Last Interglacial, Base Middle Holocene vs Base Eemian. Paper presented at 35th IGC International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.
https://www.americangeosciences.org/igc/15910 2015
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Liu, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Cai, Y.-J., Xing, S., Tong, H.-W., Pei, S.-W.
, Sier, M. J., Wu, X.-H., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Li, Y.-Y., Yang, X.-X., de Castro, J. M. B., & Wu, X.-J. (2015).
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China.
Nature,
526, 696-699.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15696Sier, M. J., Peeters, J., Dekkers, M., Pares, J. M.
, Chang, L., Busschers, F. S.
, Cohen, K. M., Wallinga, J., Bunnik, F. P. M., & Roebroeks, W. (2015).
The Blake Event recorded near the Eemian type locality - A diachronic onset of the Eemian in Europe.
Quaternary Geochronology,
28, 12-28.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2015.03.003 Sier, M. J., Parés, J. M., Antoine, P., Locht, J.-L.
, Dekkers, M. J., Limondin-Lozouet, N., & Roebroeks, W. (2015).
Evidence for the Blake Event recorded at the Eemian archaeological site of Caours, France.
Quaternary International,
357, 149-157.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.022 2014
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Pías-Peleteiro, J. M., Aldrey, J. M., Martinón-Torres, M., & Sier, M. J. (2014). El torvisco (Daphne gnidium L.): Un timbó ancestral Europeo. Revista de Neurología, 58(7), 335-336.
Pías-Peleteiro, J. M., Aldrey, J. M., Martinón-Torres, M., & Sier, M. J. (2014). Flax-leaved daphne (Daphne gnidium L.): An ancient European timbó. Revista de Neurología, 58(7), 335-336.
Populariserende publicaties
2013
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sier, M. J., & Dekkers, M. J. (2013). Magnetic property analysis as palaeoenvironmental proxy: a case study of the Last Interglacial Middle Palaeolithic site at Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany). In S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser, & W. Roebroeks (Eds.), Geochronology and Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Neumark-Nord, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (pp. 117-130). (Veröff. Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege u. Archäeologie Sachsen-Anhalt; No. Band 69).
Joordens, J. C. A.
, Dupont-Nivet, G., Feibel, C. S., Spoor, F.
, Sier, M. J., van der Lubbe, J. H. J. L., Kellberg Nielsen, T., Knul, M. V., Davies, G. R., & Vonhof, H. B. (2013).
Improved age control on early Homo fossils from the upper Burgi Member at Koobi Fora, Kenya.
Journal of Human Evolution,
65(6), 731-745.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.0022012
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Roebroeks, W.
, Sier, M. J., Kellberg Nielsen, T., De Loecker, D., Parés, J., Arps, C. E. S., & Mücher, H. J. (2012).
Use of red ochre by early Neandertals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
109(6), 1889-1894.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112261109Overige resultaten
Sier, M., Peeters, J., Dekkers, M. J., Busschers, F. S., Parés, J., Bunnik, F., & Roebroeks, W. (2012). A palaeomagnetic signal from the Last Interglacial. Poster session presented at ESHE Annual Meeting 2012, Bordeaux, France.
Sier, M., Peeters, J., Dekkers, M. J., Busschers, F. S., Parés, J., Bunnik, F. P. M., & Roebroeks, W. (2012). A palaeomagnetic signal from the Last Interglacial. Abstract from INQUA SEQS 2012 Meeting, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.
2011
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sier, M. J., Roebroeks, W., Bakels, C. C., Dekkers, M. J., Brühl, E., De Loecker, D., Gaudzinsky-Windheuser, S., Hesse, N., Jagich, A., Kindler, L., Kuijper, W. J., Laurat, T., Mücher, H. J., Penkman, K. E. H., Richter, D., & van Hinsbergen, D. J. J. (2011). Direct terrestrial-marine correlation demonstrates surprisingly late onset of the last interglacial in central Europe. Quaternary Research, 75(1), 213-218.
Joordens, J. C. A., Vonhof, H. B., Feibel, C. S.
, Lourens, L. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., van der Lubbe, J. H. J. L.
, Sier, M. J., Davies, G. R., & Kroon, D. (2011).
An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
307(1-2), 1-8.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.0052008
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J. R., DiMaggio, E., Reed, K., Lockwood, C., Franke, C.
, & Hüsing, S. (2008).
Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia) and implications for hominin paleoenvironments.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America,
446, 67-85.
https://doi.org/10.1130/2008.2446(03) Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J. R., DiMaggio, E. N., Reed, K., Lockwood, C. A., Franke, C., & Hüsing, S. (2008). Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia), implications for hominin paleoenvironments. In J. Quade, & J. G. Wynn (Eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa (pp. 67-85-doi: 10.1130/2008.2446(03)). (Geological Society of America Special Papers; No. 446).