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David R. Braun is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Social Sciences, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Anthropology, Paleontology, Social Psychology, Ecology, and Archaeology.

Their scholarly output addresses a range of main topics related to Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, primate behavior and ecology, evolution and paleontology studies, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, climate change and health impacts, wildlife ecology and conservation, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David R. Braun include:

  • Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus, 2023, Science
  • The Digital Revolution to Come: Photogrammetry in Archaeological Practice, 2020, American Antiquity
  • Drinking water salinity is associated with hypertension and hyperdilute urine among Daasanach pastoralists in Northern Kenya, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small-scale populations in hot-humid and hot-arid environments, 2020, American Journal of Human Biology
  • Aggregates, Formational Emergence, and the Focus on Practice in Stone Artifact Archaeology, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

David R. Braun frequently publishes in venues such as Journal of Human Evolution, American Journal of Human Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Quaternary Science Reviews, and Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

They collaborate regularly with a core group of coauthors including Emmanuel Ndiema, Matthew Douglass, Asher Y. Rosinger, Rosemary Nzunza, and Herman Pontzer, each with over a dozen joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

    Kyle S. Brown;Kyle S. Brown;Curtis W. Marean;Andy I. R. Herries;Andy I. R. Herries;Zenobia Jacobs

  • Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia

    Brian A. Villmoare;Brian A. Villmoare;Brian A. Villmoare;William H. Kimbel;Chalachew Seyoum;Christopher J. Campisano

  • Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya

    David R. Braun;John W. K. Harris;Naomi E. Levin;Jack T. McCoy

  • Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya

    Matthew R. Bennett;John W.K. Harris;Brian G. Richmond;Brian G. Richmond;David R. Braun

  • Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory.

    Joseph V. Ferraro;Thomas W. Plummer;Briana L. Pobiner;James S. Oliver;James S. Oliver

  • Raw material quality and Oldowan hominin toolstone preferences: evidence from Kanjera South, Kenya

    David R. Braun;Thomas Plummer;Joseph V. Ferraro;Peter Ditchfield

  • Old stones' song: use-wear experiments and analysis of the Oldowan quartz and quartzite assemblage from Kanjera South (Kenya)

    Cristina Lemorini;Thomas W. Plummer;David R. Braun;Alyssa N. Crittenden

  • Oldowan behavior and raw material transport: perspectives from the Kanjera Formation

    David R. Braun;Thomas Plummer;Peter Ditchfield;Joseph V. Ferraro

  • Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity

    David R. Braun;David R. Braun;Vera Aldeias;William Benjamin Dean Sipho Archer;J Ramon Arrowsmith

  • Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

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  • Major fallacies surrounding stone artifacts and assemblages

    Harold L. Dibble;Harold L. Dibble;Harold L. Dibble;Simon J. Holdaway;Simon J. Holdaway;Sam C. Lin;David R. Braun;David R. Braun

  • The Island Test for Cumulative Culture in the Paleolithic

    Claudio Tennie;David R. Braun;L. S. Premo;Shannon P. McPherron

  • Variability in bifacial technology at Elandsfontein, Western cape, South Africa: a geometric morphometric approach

    Will Archer;David R. Braun

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to the Oldowan

    Erella Hovers;David R. Braun

  • Earliest Stone-Tipped Projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift Date to .279,000 Years Ago

    Yonatan Sahle;W. Karl Hutchings;David R. Braun;David R. Braun;Judith C. Sealy

  • Oldest Evidence of Toolmaking Hominins in a Grassland- Dominated Ecosystem

    Thomas W. Plummer;Peter W. Ditchfield;Laura C. Bishop;John D. Kingston

  • Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus

    Kevin G. Hatala;Kevin G. Hatala;Neil T. Roach;Neil T. Roach;Kelly R. Ostrofsky;Roshna E. Wunderlich

  • Landscape-scale variation in hominin tool use: Evidence from the Developed Oldowan.

    David R. Braun;Michael J. Rogers;John W.K. Harris;Steven J. Walker

  • An experimental assessment of the influences on edge damage to lithic artifacts: A consideration of edge angle, substrate grain size, raw material properties, and exposed face

    Shannon P. McPherron;David R. Braun;Tamara Dogandzic;William Archer

  • Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology.

    Željko Režek;Željko Režek;Harold L. Dibble;Harold L. Dibble;Harold L. Dibble;Shannon P. McPherron;David R. Braun;David R. Braun

  • Researching the Nature of Fire at 1.5 Mya on the Site of FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya, Using High-Resolution Spatial Analysis and FTIR Spectrometry

    Sarah Hlubik;Francesco Berna;Craig Feibel;David Braun

  • Chronological and behavioral contexts of the earliest Middle Stone Age in the Gademotta Formation, Main Ethiopian Rift

    Yonatan Sahle;Leah E. Morgan;David R. Braun;Balemwal Atnafu

  • Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups.

    Neil T. Roach;Kevin G. Hatala;Kelly R. Ostrofsky;Brian Villmoare

  • An experimental investigation of cut mark production and stone tool attrition

    David R. Braun;Briana L. Pobiner;Jessica C. Thompson

  • On the utility and economization of unretouched flakes: The effects of exterior platform angle and platform depth

    Sam C Lin;Zeljko Rezek;David R Braun;Harold L Dibble

  • Nutrition, modernity and the archaeological record: coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers on the Western Cape coast of South Africa.

    Katharine Kyriacou;John E. Parkington;Adrian D. Marais;David R. Braun

  • Asian paleoanthropology : from Africa to China and beyond

    Christopher J. Norton;David R. Braun

Frequent Co-Authors

Shannon P. McPherron
Shannon P. McPherron Max Planck Society
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Harold L. Dibble
Harold L. Dibble University of Pennsylvania
Naomi E. Levin
Naomi E. Levin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter Ditchfield
Peter Ditchfield University of Oxford
Marion K. Bamford
Marion K. Bamford University of the Witwatersrand
Francesco Berna
Francesco Berna Simon Fraser University
J. Tyler Faith
J. Tyler Faith University of Utah
Judith Sealy
Judith Sealy University of Cape Town

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