Ian G. Stanistreet
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University
Publications
180
Citations
4,131
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
48
Publishing since 1979
Ian G. Stanistreet studies the geology of ancient landscapes in East Africa to understand the environments in which early humans and their ancestors lived. His work combines rock-layer analysis (stratigraphy), volcanic ash dating (tephrochronology), and reconstruction of past environments at key archaeological sites such as Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and Kilombe volcano in Kenya. This research helps place stone-tool traditions and human fossils into a precise geological and time framework.
Publication activity peaked around 2018-2020 and has slowed somewhat since, averaging about three papers per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Kilombe Volcano, Kenya
2023
- New Oldowan localities at high level within Kilombe Caldera, Kenya
L Anthropologie · 2021
- Geochronology of a long Pleistocene sequence at Kilombe volcano, Kenya: from the Oldowan to Middle Stone Age
Journal of Archaeological Science · 2020
- Tephrochronology of Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and placement of the Oldowan–Acheulean transition
Journal of Human Evolution · 2018
- Bed II Sequence Stratigraphic context of EF-HR and HWK EE archaeological sites, and the Oldowan/Acheulean succession at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Journal of Human Evolution · 2018
- The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Journal of Human Evolution · 2017
- OH 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2017
- Discrimination, correlation, and provenance of Bed I tephrostratigraphic markers, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, based on multivariate analyses of phenocryst compositions
Sedimentary Geology · 2016
- Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×19
- Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology×16
- Journal of Human Evolution×8
- AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×4
- Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences×1
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