Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Curator of Archaeology, Natural History Museum of Utah

jfaith@nhmu.utah.edu

Publications

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Paterson, D.B. & Du, A., Faith, J.T., Rowan, J., Uno, K., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Braun, D.R., Wood, B.A. (2022). Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei. Journal of Human Evolution., 03/2022 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Dupont, L. & Zhao, X., Charles, C., Faith, J.T., Braun, D. (2022). Continuous vegetation record of the greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 thousand years (IODP U1479). Climate of the Past. Vol. 18, 1-21., 01/2022 SOUTHERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Karp, A.T. & Faith, J.T., Marlon, J.R., Staver, A.C. (2021). Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions. Science. Vol. 374, 1145-1148., 11/26/2021 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Muiruri, V. & Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Deino, A.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Riedl, S., Rabideaux, N., Beverly, E.J., Renaut, R.W., Moerman, J.W., Deocampo, D., Faith, J.T., Noren, A., Cohen, A.S., Shannon, K.B., Dommain, R. (2021). Quaternary diatoms and palaeoenvironments of the Koora Plain, southern Kenya Rift. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 267, 107106., 09/2021 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Staver, A.C. & Abraham, J.O., Hempson, G., Karp, A.T., Faith, J.T. (2021). The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation. Journal of Ecology. Vol. 109, 2804-2822., 08/2021 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: O'Brien, K. & Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Kimeu, B., Rowan, J., Faith, J.T. (2021). First appearance of Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), from the Middle Pleistocene Kapthurin formation, Kenya, sheds light on the evolution and paleoecology of large zebras. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 256, 106835., 03/15/2021 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Cooper, A., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J., Hogg, A., McGlone, M., Wilmshurst, J., Lorrey, A.M., Heaton, T.J., Russell, J.M., McCracken, K., Anet, J.G., Rozanov, E., Friedel, M., Suter, I., Peter, T., Muscheler, R., Adolphi, F., Dosseto, A., Faith, JT. & Fenwick, P., Fogwill, C.J., Hughen, K., Lipson, M., Liu, J., Nowaczyk, N., RAinsley, E., Ramsey, C.B., Sebastianelli, P., Souilmi, Y., Stevenson, J., Thomas, Z., Robler, R., Zech, R. (2021). A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago. Science. Vol. 371, 811-818., 02/19/2021 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Braun, D.R. & Faith, J.T., Douglass, M.J., Davies, B., Power, M.J., Aldeias, V., Conard, N.J., Cutts, R., DeSantis, L.R.G., Dupont, L.M., Esteban ,I., Kandel, A.W., Levin, N.E., Luyt, J., Parkington, J., Pickering, R., Quick, L., Sealy, J., Stynder, D. (2021). Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology. Vol. 30, 50-62., 02/18/2021 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., O'Brien, K., Blegen, N., Peppe, D.J. (2020). Late Pleistocene mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: systematic paleontology, paleoenvironments, and non-analog associations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 40, e1841781., 12/08/2020 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Braun, D.R., Davies, B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Douglass, M.J., Esteban, I., Hare, V., Levin, N.E., Luyt, J., Pickering, R., Power, M.J., Sealy, J., Stynder, D. (2020). Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol. 35, 1007-1020., 11/2020 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Potts, R., Dommain, R., Moerman, J.W., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A.L., Riedl, S., Beverly, E.J., Brown, E.T., Deocampo, D., Kinyanjui, R., Lupien, R., Owen, R.B., Rabideaux, N., Russell, J.M., Stockhecke, M., deMenocal, P., Faith, J.T., Garcin, Y,. Noren, A., & Scott, J.J., Western, D., Bright, J., Clark, J.B., Cohen, A.S., Keller, C.B., King, J., Levin, N.E., Shannon, K.B., Muiruri, V., Renaut, R.W., Rucina, S.M., Uno, K. (2020). Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution. Science Advances. Vol. 6, eabc8975., 10/21/2020 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Pargeter, J. & Faith, J.T. (2020). Lithic miniaturization as adaptive strategy: a case study from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 12, 225., 08/28/2020 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A., Barr, W.A. (2020). The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens. Quaternary Research. Vol. 96, 88-104., 07/01/2020 AFRICA
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Chase, B.M., Avery, D.M. (2020). Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa – Response to comments by F. Thackeray. Quaternary Research. Vol. 95, 157-159., 05/12/2020 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Sealy, J. (2020). Climate and ecology of the palaeo-Agulhas Plain from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of bovid tooth enamel from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 235, 105974., 05/01/2020 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. (2020). Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Vol. 117, 3370-3371., 02/18/2020 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Niespolo, E.M. & Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Ranhorn, K., Mambelli, S., Miller, M.J., Dawson, T.E. (2020). Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-scale Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records for eastern African archaeological sites. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 230, 106142., 02/15/2020 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Beverly, E.J. & White, J.D., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Blegen, N., Tryon, C.A. (2020). Rapid Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa’s Lake Victoria. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 530, 115883., 01/15/2020 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: O'Brien, K. & Patterson, D.B., Biernat, M.D., Braun, D.R., Cerling, T.E., McGrosky, A., Faith, J.T. (2020). Ungulate turnover in the Koobi Fora Formation: spatial and temporal variation in the Early Pleistocene. Journal of African Earth Sciences. Vol. 161, 103658., 01/01/2020 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Rowan, J., Faith, J.T. (2019) The paleoecological impact of grazing and browsing: the consequences of late Quaternary extinctions. In: Gordon, I.J., Prins, H.H.T. (Eds.) The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II. Springer. Pages 61-79, 11/12/2019 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Swift, J.A., Bunce, M., Dortch, J., Douglass, K., Faith, J.T., Yates, J.A.F., Field, J., Haberle, S., Jacob, E., Johnson, C.N., Lindsey, E., Lorenzen, E.D., Louys, J., Miller, G., Mychajliw, A., Slon, V., Villavicencio, N., Water, M.R., Welker, F., Wood, R., & Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. (2019). Micro methods for megafauna: novel approaches to late Quaternary extinctions and their contributions to faunal conservation in the Anthropocene. BioScience. Vol. 69, 877-887., 11/01/2019 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A. (2019). Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Vol. 116, 21478-21483., 10/07/2019 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tóth, A.B. & Lyons, S.K., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Blois, J.L., Bobe, R., Davis, M., Eronen, J.T., Faith, J.T., Fraser, D., Gotelli, N.J., Graves, G., Jukar, A.M., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Soul, L.C., Villasenor, A., Alroy, J. (2019). Reassembly of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene mass extinction. Science. Vol. 365, 1305-1308., 09/20/2019
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Chase, B.M., Avery, D.M. (2019). Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Research. Vol. 91, 848-860., 03/01/2019 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Lyman, R.L. (2019). Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques. Cambridge University Press., 02/21/2019
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. & Rowan, J., Du, A., Koch, P.L. (2018). Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts. Science. Vol. 362, 938-941., 11/23/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. (2018). We need to critically evaluate our assumptions: reply to Blumenthal et al. (2018). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 506, 252-253., 10/01/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Price, G.J. & Louys, J., Faith, J.T., Lorenzen, E., Westaway, M.C. (2018). Big data little help in megafauna mysteries. Nature. Vol. 558, 23-25., 06/06/2018 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Potts, R & Behrensmeyer, AK, Faith, JT, Tryon, CA, Brooks, AS, Yellen, JE, Deino, AL, Kinyanjui, R, Clark, JB, Haradon, C, Levin, NE, Meijer, HJM, Veatch, EG, Owen, RB, Renaut, RW (2018). Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Science. Vol. 360, 86-90., 03/15/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Potts, R., Faith, J.T. (In Press) Mammalian fauna of the Olorgesailie Basin and southern Kenya rift. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.) Pliocene and Early Pleistocene African Fauna and Paleoecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge., 03/01/2018 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2018). Paleodietary change and its implications for aridity indices derived from δ¹⁸O of herbivore tooth enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 490, 571-578., 01/15/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• NATURE & CULTURE: Norman K., Inglis J., Clarkson C., Faith J., Shulmeister J. & Harris D. (2018). An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago. (pp. 229-239). Vol. 180, Quaternary Science Reviews., 01/15/2018 AUSTRALIA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Chase B., Faith J., Mackay A., Chevalier M., Carr A., Boom A., Lim S. & Reimer P. (2018). Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa's southern Cape. (pp. 35-44). Vol. 114, Journal of Human Evolution., 01/01/2018 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Beverly E. & , Peppe D., Driese S., Blegen N., Faith J., Tryon C., & Stinchcomb G. (2017). Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments using bulk geochemistry of paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. Vol. 5, 93., 11/21/2017 KENYA
• NATURE & CULTURE: Blegen N., Faith J., Mant-Melville A., Peppe D., Tryon C. (2017) The East African MIddle Stone Age after 50,000 years ago: new evidence from Late Pleistocene sediments of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Nyanza Province, Western Kenya. (pp. 139-169). Vol. 2017. Paleoanthropology., 10/01/2017 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith J., Dortch J., Jones C., Shulmeister J. & Travouillon K. (2017). Large mammal species richness and late Quaternary precipitation change in south-western Australia. (pp. 760-769). Vol. 32, Journal of Quaternary Science., 08/01/2017 AUSTRALIA
• NATURE & CULTURE: Dighton A., Fairbairn A., Bourke S., Faith J. & Habgood P. (2017). Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan. (pp. 403-413). Vol. 26, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany., 07/01/2017 JORDAN
• NATURE & CULTURE: Wright N., Fairbairn A., Üstünkaya M. & Faith J. (2017). Explaining changing patterns of wood presence across the Bronze and Iron Age at Kaman-Kalehöyük, central Anatolia. (pp. 90-102). Vol. 431, Quaternary International., 02/28/2017 TURKEY
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. (In Press) The Middle Pleistocene through the Holocene, a synthesis. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.) Pliocene and Early Pleistocene African Fauna and Paleoecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge., 01/01/2017 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lyons S., Miller J., Amatangel K., Behrensmeyer A., Bercovici A., Blois J., Davis M., DiMichele W., Du A., Eronen J., Faith J., Graves G., Jud N., Labandeira C., Looy C., McGill B., Patterson D., Pineda-Munoz S., Potts R., Riddle B., Terry R., Tóth A., Ulrich W., Villaseñor A., Wing S., Anderson H., Anderson J. & Gotelli N. (2016). Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts (pp. 80-83). Vol. 529, Nature., 12/16/2016 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Sealy J., Lee-Thorp J., Loftus E., Faith J. & Marean C. (2016). Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave. (pp. 919-927). Vol. 31, Journal of Quaternary Science., 11/01/2016 SOUTH AFRICA
• NATURE & CULTURE: Tryon C. & Faith J. (2016). A demographic perspective on the middle to later stone age transition from nasera rockshelter, Tanzania. Vol. 371, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences., 07/05/2016 TANZANIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith J., Patterson D., Blegen N., O'Neill C., Marean C., Peppe D. & Tryon C. (2016). Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (East African mole-rat) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa. (pp. 39-48). Vol. 140, Quaternary Science Reviews., 05/15/2016 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Robinson J., Rowan J., Faith J. & Fleagle J. (2016). Paleoenvironmental change in the late Middle Pleistocene-Holocene Kibish Formation, southern Ethiopia: Evidence from ungulate isotopic ecology. (pp. 50-59). Vol. 450, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 05/15/2016 ETHIOPIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lesur J., Faith J., Bon F., Dessie A., Ménard C. & Bruxelles L. (2016). Paleoenvironmental and biogeographic implications of terminal Pleistocene large mammals from the Ziway-Shala Basin, Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia. (pp. 567-579). Vol. 449, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 05/01/2016 ETHIOPIA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J. (2016) Environmental change, ungulate biogeography, and their implications for early human dispersals in equatorial East Africa. In: Jones, S.C., Stewart, B.A. (Eds.) Africa from MIS 6-2: Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments. Springer. Pages 233-245., 01/01/2016 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Beverly E., Driese S., Peppe D., Arellano L., Blegen N., Faith J. & Tryon C. (2015). Reconstruction of a semi-arid late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake Victoria region, Kenya. (pp. 368-381). Vol. 84, Quaternary Research., 11/01/2015 KENYA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Potts R. & Faith J. (2015). Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution. (pp. 5-20). Vol. 87, Journal of Human Evolution., 10/01/2015 EASTERN AFRICA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J., Tryon C., Peppe D., Beverly E., Blegen N., Blumenthal S., Chritz K., Driese S. & Patterson D. (2015). Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa. Vol. 83, Journal of Human Evolution., 06/01/2015 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Garrett N., Fox D., McNulty K., Faith J., Peppe D., Van Plantinga A. & Tryon C. (2015). Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya. (pp. 1-14). Vol. 82, Journal of Human Evolution., 05/01/2015 KENYA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wright N., Fairbairn A., Faith J. & Matsumura K. (2015). Woodland modification in Bronze and Iron age central Anatolia: An anthracological signature for the Hittite state?. (pp. 219-230). Vol. 55, Journal of Archaeological Science., 03/01/2015 TURKEY
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Patterson D., Faith J., Bobe R. & Wood B. (2014). Regional diversity patterns in African bovids, hyaenids, and felids during the past 3 million years: The role of taphonomic bias and implications for the evolution of Paranthropus. (pp. 9-22). Vol. 96, Quaternary Science Reviews., 07/15/2014 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tryon C., Faith J., Peppe D., Keegan W., Keegan K., Jenkins K., Nightingale S., Patterson D., Van Plantinga A., Driese S., Johnson C. & Beverly E. (2014). Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa. (pp. 20-30). Vol. 331, Quaternary International., 05/08/2014 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Blois J., Gotelli N., Behrensmeyer A., Faith J., Lyons S., Williams J., Amatangelo K., Bercovici A., Du A., Eronen J., Graves G., Jud N., Labandeira C., Looy C., Mcgill B., Patterson D., Potts R., Riddle B., Terry R., Tóth A., Villaseñor A. & Wing S. (2014). A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary. (pp. 1095-1108). Vol. 37, Ecography., 01/01/2014
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews. Vol. 128, 105-121., 01/01/2014 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J.T. (2014) North American terminal Pleistocene extinctions: current views. In: Smith, C. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York. Pages 5426-5435., 01/01/2014
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wroe S., Field J., Archer M., Grayson D., Price G., Louys J., Faith J., Webb G., Davidson I. & Mooney S. (2013). Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul. Vol. 110, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 09/03/2013 AUSTRALIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wroe S., Field J., Archer M., Grayson D., Price G., Louys J., Faith J., Webb G., Davidson I. & Mooney S. (2013). Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene australia-new guinea). (pp. 8777-8781). Vol. 110. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 05/28/2013 AUSTRALIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Faith J. (2013). Ungulate diversity and precipitation history since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 68, 191-199., 05/05/2013 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J., Tryon C., Peppe D. & Fox D. (2013). The fossil history of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa. (pp. 359-369). Vol. 40, Journal of Biogeography., 02/01/2013 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2013). Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 65, 715-730., 01/01/2013 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. & Behrensmeyer A. (2013). Climate change and faunal turnover: Testing the mechanics of the turnover-pulse hypothesis with South African fossil data. (pp. 609-627). Vol. 39, Paleobiology., 01/01/2013 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J., Potts R., Plummer T., Bishop L., Marean C. & Tryon C. (2012). New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya. (pp. 84-93). Vol. 361-362, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology., 11/15/2012 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2012). Palaeozoological insights into management options for a threatened mammal: Southern Africa's Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra). Diversity and Distributions. Vol. 18, 438-447., 05/01/2012 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2012). Conservation implications of fossil roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) in Southern Africa’s Cape Floristic Region. (pp. 239-251). Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation., 01/01/2012 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. & O'Connell J. (2011). Revisiting the late Pleistocene mammal extinction record at Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia. (pp. 397-400). Vol. 76, Quaternary Research., 11/01/2011 AUSTRALIA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2011). Ungulate community richness, grazer extinctions, and human subsistence behavior in southern Africa's Cape Floral Region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 306, 219-227., 06/15/2011 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2011). Late Pleistocene climate change, nutrient cycling, and the megafaunal extinctions in North America. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 30, 1675-1680., 06/01/2011
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2011). Late Quaternary dietary shifts of the Cape grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) in southern Africa. Quaternary Research. Vol. 75, 159-165., 01/01/2011 SOUTH AFRICA
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2011). Ungulate biogeography, statistical methods, and the proficiency of Middle Stone Age hunters. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 60, 315-317., 01/01/2011 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. & Surovell T. (2009). Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals. (pp. 20641-20645). Vol. 106, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 12/08/2009
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith J. (2008). Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: were Middle Stone Age humans ineffective hunters?. Journal of Human Evolution. Vol. 55, 24-36., 01/01/2008 SOUTH AFRICA
• NATURE & CULTURE: Faith J. (2007). Changes in reindeer body part representation at Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 34, 2003-2011., 01/01/2007 FRANCE

Presentations

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Karp, A., Uno, K., Berke, M., Russell, J., Scholz, C., Faith, J.T., Staver, A.C. (2021) Savanna fire activity responds heterogeneously to rainfall shifts during the African Humid Period. Paper: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA. , 12/2021 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Mosher, S.G., Power, M.J., Quick, L.J., Haberzettle, T., Adler, E., Faith, J.T. (2021) Fire in the Fynbos: A high-resolution investigation into mid-Holocene fire activity at Eilandvlei, southern Cape coast, South Africa. Paper: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA., 12/2021 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Karp, A., Faith, J.T., Marlon, J.R., Staver, A.C. (2021) Fire-grazer interactions during the late Quaternary extinctions. Poster: American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA. , 12/2021 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: O’Brien, K., Irmis, R.B., Coltrain, J.B., *Dalmas, D.M., Evans, T., Richards, E.S., Richards, F.M., Faith, J.T. (2021) Ecological census implications, site description, and systematic paleontology of Boomerang Cave, a vertebrate assemblage in Cache County, Utah, USA. Paper: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Virtual Event., 10/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: O’Brien, K., Irmis, R.B., Coltrain, J.B., *Dalmas, D.M., Evans, T., Richards, E.S., Richards, F.M., Faith, J.T. (2021) Ecological census implications, site description, and systematic paleontology of Boomerang Cave, a vertebrate assemblage in Cache County, Utah, USA. Paper: Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Virtual Event, 09/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Fraser, D., Villaseñor, A., Tóth, A., Balk, M.A., Eronen, J.T., Barr, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davis, M., Du, A., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Gotelli, N.J., Jukar, A.M., Looy, C., McGill, B.J., Miller, J.H., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Shipinksi, A.B., Soul, L.C., Lyons, S.K. (2021) Late Quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas. Paper: Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Virtual Event. , 09/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Staver, A.C. Abraham, K., Hempson, G., Karp, A., Faith, J.T. (2021) The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation. Poster: Ecological Society of America, Virtual Event., 08/2021 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Sutikna, T., Faith, J.T., SAptomo, E.W., Tocheri, M.W. (2020) Faunal change through the Holocene at Liang Bua: endemic versus introduced mammals. Paper: Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Virtual Event., 11/2020 INDONESIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. Megafaunal extinctions: the uncertain case for anthropogenic impacts prior to Homo sapiens. Invited Talk: University of the Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Institute. Johannesburg, South Africa. February 10, 2020, 02/10/2020 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T. What drove Africa’s megaherbivores to extinction? Invited Talk: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, MD. March 13, 2019., 03/13/2019 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tóth, A.B., Lyons, S.K., Jukar, A.M., Du, A., Barr, W.A., Villaseñor, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fraser, D., Miller, J., Soul, L., Gotelli, N., Pineda-Munoz, S., Blois, J.L., Davis, M., Eronen, J., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Alroy, J. (2019) End-Pleistocene mass extinction caused a fundamental shift in survivor mammal community structure. Paper: International Biogeography Society, Malaga, Spain. , 01/08/2019
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Tryon, C.A., Lewis, J.E., Ranhorn, K.L., Niespolo, E., Quinn, R., Faith, J.T. (2018) A multi-proxy approach to understanding Late Pleistocene Eastern African paleoenvironments from archaeological sites in Kenya and Tanzania. Paper: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC., 12/10/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Ranhorn, K.L., Mambelli, S., Miller, M.J., Dawson, T.E. (2018) Light stable isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-specific paleoenvironmental records during the Middle-to-Later Stone Age transition in Eastern Africa. Poster: Geological Society of America, Indianapolis, IN., 11/06/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: O’Brien, K., *McGrosky, A., *Allen, K., *Biernat, M., Braun, D.R., *Guerrero, A., Patterson, D.B., Torres, F., Faith, J.T. (2018) Early Pleistocene grassland dynamics at East Turkana: spatiotemporal patterns of mesic- and xeric-adapted ungulates and new insights into niche preferences of Eurygnathohippus and Kolpochoerus. Poster: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Albuquerque, NM., 10/17/2018 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Johnson, T.C., Berke, M.A., Castaneda, I., Lane, C., Tryon, C.A., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., Beverly, E.J. (2018) Should we drill Lake Victoria? Paper: AFQUA Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 07/20/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T., Du, A., Rowan, J. (2018) Emergence of the functionally modern ungulate community in eastern Africa. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Austin, TX. , 01/08/2018 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Dawson, T.E. (2017) Using C and N stable isotopes to develop paleoenvironmental records for Late Pleistocene East African rock shelter sequences. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 04/02/2017 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Faith, J.T., Avery, D.M. (2017) The promise and pitfalls of quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstruction in faunal analysis: evaluation of late Quaternary micromammal assemblages from southern Africa. Paper: Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 03/30/2017 SOUTH AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D., Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Lewis, J., Dawson, T.E. (2017) C and N stable isotopes in Late Pleistocene – Holocene ostrich eggshells reveal distinct local paleoenvironments in East Africa during the MSA-LSA transition. Paper: Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, BC. , 03/29/2017 EASTERN AFRICA

Media

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Salt Lake Tribute, "Utah professor discovers extinction of ancient herbivores fueled wildfires. Here’s why that matters.", 12/18/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: New York Times, "A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption", 02/18/2021 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Science, "How climate disruptions revolutionized ancient human toolmaking", 10/21/2020 KENYA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Science Daily, “Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today”, 10/07/2019 EASTERN AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Science: The decline of Africa’s largest mammals, 11/23/2018 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: USA today: Humans didn’t cause mass animal extinctions in Africa, like previously thought, study says , 11/23/2018 AFRICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: BBC News: Humans ‘off the hook’ for African mammal extinction, 11/22/2018 AFRICA