Paleoanthropology & tephrostratigraphy

My interests remain in applying geological techniques to determining the age and stratigraphy of deposits in the Turkana Basin of Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya, where I began work in 1966.  In addition, I hope to transfer as much knowledge as possible to younger workers through collaboration in the field.

McDougall, I., and Brown, F. H., 2008.  Geochronology of the pre-KBS Tuff sequence, Omo Group, Turkana Basin, Journal of the Geological Society 165, 549–562.

Gathogo, P. N., Brown, F. H., and McDougall, I., 2008.  Stratigraphy of the Koobi For a Formation (Pliocene and Pleistocene) in the Loiyangalani region of northern Kenya.  Journal of African Earth Sciences 51, 277–297.

Fleagle, J. G., Assefa, Z., Brown, F. H., and Shea, J., 2008.  Paleoanthropology of the Kibish Formation, Southern Ethiopia: Introduction.  Journal of Human Evolution 55, 360–365.

Brown, F. H., and Fuller, C. R., 2008.  Stratigraphy and tephra of the Kibish Formation, Southwestern Ethiopia.  Journal of Human Evolution 55, 366–403.

Feakins, S. J., Brown, F. H., and deMenocal, P. B., 2007.  Plio-Pleistocene microtephra in DSDP site 231, Gulf of Aden.  Journal of African Earth Sciences 48, 341–352.

Spoor, F., Leakey, M. G., Gathogo, P. N., Brown, F. H., Antón, S. C., McDougall, I., Kiarie, C., Manthi, F. K., Leakey, L. N., 2007.  Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya.  Nature 448, 688–691.

Kidane, T., Yo-Ichiro, O., Brown, F. H., Takemoto, K., and Eshete, G., 2007.  Two normal paleomagnetic polarity intervals in the lower Matuyama Chron recorded in the Shungura Formation (Omo Valley, Southwest Ethiopia). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 262, 240–256.

Negash, A., Alene, M., Brown, F. H., Nash, B. P., and Shackley, M.S., 2007.  Geochemical sources for the terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene obsidian artifacts of the site of Beseka, central Ethiopia.  Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 1205–1210.

Brown, F. H., Haileab, B., & McDougall, I., 2006.  Sequence of tuffs between the KBS Tuff and the Chari Tuff in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 185–204.

McDougall, I., and Brown, F. H., 2006.  Precise 40Ar/39Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 205–220.

Harris, J. M., M. G. Leakey, and F. H. Brown.  2006. A brief history of research at Koobi Fora, northern Kenya. Ethnohistory, 53 (1), 35–69.

Gathogo, P. N., and Brown, F. H., 2006.  Stratigraphy of the Koobi Fora Formation (Pliocene and Pleistocene) in the Ileret region of northern Kenya.  Journal of African Earth Sciences, 45, 369-390.

Gathogo, P. N., and Brown, F. H., 2006.  Revised stratigraphy of Area 123, Koobi Fora, Kenya, and age estimates of its fossil mammals, including hominins.  Journal of Human Evolution 51, 471-479.

McDougall, I., Brown, F. H., and Fleagle, J. G., 2005.  Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia.  Nature 433, 733–736.

Brown, F. H., and Gathogo, P. N., 2005.  A comment on ‘Recent tectonics in the Turkana Rift (North Kenya): an integrated approach from drainage network, satellite imagery and reflection seismic analyses’.  Basin Research (2005) 17, 329–335, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00267.

Haileab, B., Brown, F. H., McDougall, I., and Gathogo, P.N., 2004.  Flood basalts and initiation of Pliocene deposition in the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.  Geological Magazine, v. 141, 41–53.

Brown, F. H., and Gathogo, P. N., 2002.  Stratigraphic relation between Lokalalei 1A and Lokalalei 2C, Pliocene Archaeological Sites in west Turkana, Kenya.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 699–702.