Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Smithsonian Institution — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

61h-index14.9kcitations216works2.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(117), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(104), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(46), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(45), Primate Behavior and Ecology(27)

Publications215 total

The Siwaliks: Reading Rodent Evolution in the Miocene of South Asia
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2025
Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba) diet analysis to assess small mammal populations in two regions of Kenya
African Biodiversity & Conservation·2025Open Access
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
Nature Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Fifty Years in the Foothills: Ecosystem Evolution in the Neogene Siwalik Record of Pakistan
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Fossils Bridge Late Triassic Gap in the Non-Marine Vertebrate Paleocommunity Record and Pose New Questions about the End-Triassic Extinction
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Outcrop records of Pleistocene trackway surfaces in the Turkana Basin, Kenya, provide insights on shoreline dynamics of paleolake Lorenyang
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago
2024
Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins
Science·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
Anthropogenic modification of a giant ground sloth tooth from Brazil supported by a multi-disciplinary approach
Scientific Reports·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Pleistocene vegetation dynamics of the Olorgesailie-Koora Basin in the last 1 Myr: Implications for human evolution and technological innovations 
2024Open Access
Nondestructive geochemical characterization of fossil hominin taphonomy and burial history
Quaternary Science Reviews·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Controls on Quaternary geochemical and mineralogical variability in the Koora Basin and South Kenya Rift
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2023· 5 cited
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
Journal of Human Evolution·2023· 10 cited
Controls on Quaternary Geochemical and Mineralogical Variability in the Koora Basin and South Kenya Rift
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Fossil footprints and what they mean for hominin paleobiology
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews·2022· 9 cited
Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
Nature Communications·2022· 28 citedOpen Access
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (1944–2022)
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews·2022· 1 cited
Lateral Facies Analysis of the Koobi Fora Formation, Northern Kenya: Summary of Research Objectives and Results
2022
Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei?
Journal of Human Evolution·2022· 6 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Richard Potts(10), J. Tyler Faith(7), Alan L. Deino(6), David Pilbeam(4), Catherine Badgley(4), Scott L. Wing(4), Jennifer B. Clark(4), René Bobe(4), Andrew Du(4), R. Bernhart Owen(4), John C. Barry(3), William A. DiMichele(3), Alison S. Brooks(3), John E. Yellen(3), Conrad C. Labandeira(3), David B. Patterson(3), Richard Potts(3), Peter Ditchfıeld(3), David Western(3), Thure E. Cerling(3)