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Alan L. Deino is affiliated with the Berkeley Geochronology Center in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work addresses diverse topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological formations and processes, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

Recent publications by Alan L. Deino include:

  • Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa, 2022, Nature
  • Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution, 2020, Science Advances
  • Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Oldest evidence of abundant C 4 grasses and habitat heterogeneity in eastern Africa, 2023, Science
  • Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution, 2022, Nature Geoscience

Frequent coauthors in their studies include Andrew S. Cohen, John D. Kingston, William E. Lukens, R. Bernhart Owen, and Daniel J. Peppe.

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Nature
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Carl C. Swisher;Alan L. Deino;Daniel B. Karner

  • Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History

    K. F. Kuiper;K. F. Kuiper;A. Deino;F. J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman

  • Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Frederik J. Hilgen;Klaudia F. Kuiper

  • The age of the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff caldera-forming eruption (Campi Flegrei caldera – Italy) assessed by 40Ar/39Ar dating method

    Alan L Deino;Giovanni Orsi;Sandro de Vita;Monica Piochi

  • Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like Stone Technology of the Bose Basin, South China

    Hou Yamei;Richard Potts;Yuan Baoyin;Guo Zhengtang

  • Evolution of the northern Main Ethiopian rift: birth of a triple junction

    Ellen Wolfenden;Cynthia Ebinger;Gezahegn Yirgu;Alan Deino

  • Late Cenozoic Moisture History of East Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Eruptive history of Earth's largest Quaternary caldera (Toba, Indonesia) clarified

    C. A. Chesner;William I. Rose;A. Deino;R. Drake

  • Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Olorgesailie Formation, Southern Kenya Rift

    Alan Deino;Richard Potts

  • Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

    Alison S. Brooks;Alison S. Brooks;John E. Yellen;John E. Yellen;Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • High- and low-latitude forcing of Plio-Pleistocene East African climate and human evolution.

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time

    Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Robert C. Walter;Brent D. Turrin

  • Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

    Robert J. Blumenschine;Charles R. Peters;Fidelis T. Masao;Ronald J. Clarke

  • Miocene rotation of Sardinia: New paleomagnetic and geochronological constraints and geodynamic implications

    J. Gattacceca;A. Deino;R. Rizzo;D.S. Jones

  • Chronology of volcanism and rift basin propagation - Rungwe volcanic province, East Africa

    C. J. Ebinger;A. L. Deino;R. E. Drake;A. L. Tesha

  • An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia

    Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Bruce M. Latimer;Mulugeta Alene;Alan L. Deino

  • The Agnano-Monte Spina eruption (4100 years BP) in the restless Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy)

    S de Vita;G Orsi;L Civetta;A Carandente

  • High-precision 14 C and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of the Campanian Ignimbrite (Y-5) reconciles the time-scales of climatic-cultural processes at 40 ka

    Biagio Giaccio;Irka Hajdas;Roberto Isaia;Alan Deino

  • Chemical and Sr-isotopical evolution of the Phlegraean magmatic system before the Campanian Ignimbrite and the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff eruptions

    L Pappalardo;L Civetta;M D'Antonio;A Deino

  • Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Annett Junginger

  • A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations

    Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Beverly Z. Saylor;Alan Deino;Naomi E. Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Richard Potts
Richard Potts National Museum of Natural History
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Asfawossen Asrat
Asfawossen Asrat Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Robin W. Renaut
Robin W. Renaut University of Saskatchewan
Craig S. Feibel
Craig S. Feibel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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