Achievement

IGERT trainee Tyler Faith with Christian Tryon and others published an account of a new Middle Stone Age research area on Lake Victoria, Kenya. Faith argues that the fauna represent both an unusual combination of species with no modern environmental analogues, and includes several newly defined or redefined taxa. (Tryon,C. A., Faith, J.T., and 6 others, The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya. J. of Human Evolution 59: 657-671. Also Tryon, JF et al. In Press, Taxonomic status of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya Quaternary Research.