Oldupai’s earliest hominins sequentially inhabited the floodplains of sinuous channels, then river-influenced contexts, which now comprises the oldest palaeolake setting documented regionally. Here we report a multiproxy dataset from Ewass Oldupa, in the Western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin of Olduvai Gorge (now Oldupai), Tanzania, to address this lacuna and offer an ecological perspective on human adaptability two million years ago. However, there is a dearth of information to assess hominin adaptions to changing physiography during key evolutionary stages such as the early Pleistocene. Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations, habitat diversification, and dispersal.
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 3 ( 2021) Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago
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