Christian A. Tryon

Christian A. Tryon publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

• Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

  Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  494
  Citations

• The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000-30,000 years ago.

  Margaret Whiting Blome;Andrew S. Cohen;Christian A. Tryon;Alison S. Brooks

  357
  Citations

• Levallois Lithic Technology From the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity

  Christian A. Tryon;Christian A. Tryon;Sally McBrearty;Pierre-Jean Texier

  246
  Citations

• Variability in the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

  Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith

  203
  Citations

• Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

  Unknown

  200
  Citations

• Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

  Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;J. Tyler Faith;Christian A. Tryon

  187
  Citations

• Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to middle stone age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.

  Christian A. Tryon;Sally McBrearty

  184
  Citations

• From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya

  Sally McBrearty;Christian Tryon

  163
  Citations

• “Early” Middle Stone Age Lithic Technology of the Kapthurin Formation (Kenya)

  Christian A. Tryon

  106
  Citations

• A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania.

  Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith

  90
  Citations

• New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya

  J. Tyler Faith;Richard Potts;Thomas W. Plummer;Laura C. Bishop

  87
  Citations

• The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya.

  Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith;Daniel J. Peppe;David L. Fox

  85
  Citations

• Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later middle Pleistocene

  Christian A. Tryon;Christian A. Tryon;Sally McBrearty

  84
  Citations

• 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.

  J. Tyler Faith;Christian A. Tryon;Daniel J. Peppe;Emily J. Beverly

  79
  Citations

• Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania

  Christian A. Tryon;Jason E. Lewis;Kathryn L. Ranhorn;Amandus Kwekason

  76
  Citations

• Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya)

  Christian A. Tryon;Isabelle Crevecoeur;J. Tyler Faith;Ravid Ekshtain

  72
  Citations

• Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology, and a context for early modern humans

  Nick Blegen;Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith;Daniel J. Peppe

  71
  Citations

• The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin

  Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith;Daniel J. Peppe;Emily J. Beverly

  65
  Citations

• The Middle/Later Stone Age transition and cultural dynamics of late Pleistocene East Africa.

  Christian A. Tryon

  62
  Citations

• Stable isotope paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age humans from the Lake Victoria basin, Kenya.

  Nicole D. Garrett;David L. Fox;Kieran P. McNulty;J. Tyler Faith

  55
  Citations