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Erich C. Fisher
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 119
Citations - 2727
Erich C. Fisher is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population health & Middle Stone Age. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 117 publications receiving 2366 citations. Previous affiliations of Erich C. Fisher include Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University & University of the Witwatersrand.
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Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
Curtis W. Marean,Miryam Bar-Matthews,Jocelyn Bernatchez,Erich C. Fisher,Paul Goldberg,Andy I.R. Herries,Zenobia Jacobs,Antonieta Jerardino,Panagiotis Karkanas,Tom Minichillo,Peter J. Nilssen,Erin Thompson,Ian Watts,Hope M. Williams +13 more
TL;DR: It is shown that by ∼164’kyr ago (±12 kyr) at Pinnacle Point (on the south coast of South Africa) humans expanded their diet to include marine resources, perhaps as a response to these harsh environmental conditions.
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An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
Kyle S. Brown,Kyle S. Brown,Curtis W. Marean,Zenobia Jacobs,Benjamin J. Schoville,Simen Oestmo,Erich C. Fisher,Jocelyn Bernatchez,Panagiotis Karkanas,Thalassa Matthews +9 more
TL;DR: This research shows that microlithic technology originated early in South Africa, evolved over a vast time span (∼11,000 years), and was typically coupled to complex heat treatment that persisted for nearly 100,000 years.
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Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a Paleoscape model as a conceptual tool to ground the records for human behavioral evolution within a dynamic model of paleoenvironmental changes and compare the predictions of this broadened model to evidence from Blombos cave.
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A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa
Miryam Bar-Matthews,Curtis W. Marean,Zenobia Jacobs,Panagiotis Karkanas,Erich C. Fisher,Andy I.R. Herries,Kyle S. Brown,Kyle S. Brown,Hope M. Williams,Jocelyn Bernatchez,Avner Ayalon,Peter J. Nilssen +11 more
TL;DR: This article used isotopic analysis of precisely dated speleothems to document shifting vegetation and rainfall, and show that the presence of winter rain and C3 grasses waxes and wanes in response to Southern Hemisphere shifts in SSTs and global temperature.