PERSONAL DATA

Place of Birth - Sungei Gerong, Sumatra, Indonesia

EDUCATION

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Human Evolution
Ecological context of human evolution
Paleoecology
Hominid Biogeography
Evolutionary theory
Application of stable isotopic analyses for dietary and environmental reconstructions,
Miocene hominoids
Vertebrate paleontology
East African ecology


FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

UGANDA: Paleontological Investigations at Kikorongo Crater and Kazinga Channel Region, Albertine Rift Valley. 2006

KENYA: Paleoecology and Geologic context of only Chimpanzee Fossils, Baringo Basin, Central Kenyan Rift Valley. 2006

KENYA: Baringo Paleontological Research Project. Reconstruction of late Miocene and Pliocene hominoid/hominid paleoenvironments. 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004

TANZANIA: Eyasi Plateau Paleontological Research Project. Investigation of the paleontology of hominid sites in the Laetoli Area, 2000, 2004.

KENYA: Archeology and Paleoenvironments of the Kapthurin Formation, Establishment of the ecological and stratigraphic context of middle Pleistocene archeological sites. 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2004.

UGANDA: Paleontological Reconnaissance of Napak/Bukwa. Prospecting early Miocene sites of the Napak volcanic edifice and Mt. Elgon. 1998, 2003, 2007.

TANZANIA: Rukwa Paleontological Survey, Reconnaissance of the Rukwa Trough portion of the East African Rift Valley for late Miocene/Pliocene hominoid/hominid fossil localities, 2001.

NORTH AMERICA: Early primate reconnaissance, Montana. Reconnoiter Early Paleocene to Eocene terrestrial sediments in the western Crazy Mountains to prospect potential early primate sites. 1997.

UGANDA: Moroto Paleontological Project. Establishing environmental, stratigraphic, and geochronologic context for hominoid fossil specimens. 1995, 2007.

KENYA: Kanam/Kanjera Paleontological and Archeological Survey. Developing a stratigraphic and environmental context for fossils and artifacts. 1994.

ABU DHABI: Neogene paleontology of the Baynunah Formation. Vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology of late Miocene sediments exposed at Jebal Barakah and Jebal Dhanna 1992.

KENYA: Paleoanthropology of the Simbi site. Paleoenvironmental and paleodietary reconstructions of late middle Pleistocene archeological horizons. 1989,1990.

PAKISTAN: Siwalik Paleontologic Research Project. Survey and establish microenvironmental context of vertebrate fossil localities in the Miocene Siwalik sediments. 1988.

NORTH AMERICA:Shasta/Redding Geologic Compilation Paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic reconstruction of an accreted Paleozoic-Mesozoic volcanic arc complex sequence, Shasta Co., California. Research resulted in MS thesis. 1982-1985.


PUBLICATIONS

Kingston, J.D. (in press) Shifting Adaptive Landscapes: Progress and Challenges in Reconstructing Early Hominid Environments. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology Dec ‘07.

Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) Docosahexaenoic Acid Biosynthesis and Dietary Contingency: Encephalization Without Aquatic Constraint. American Journal of Human Biology 19:585-588.

Kingston, J.D., Deino, A., Hill, A. and Edgar, R. (in press). Astronomically forced climate change in the Kenyan Rift Valley 2.7-2.55 Ma: Implications for the evolution of early hominin ecosystems. Journal of Human Evolution.

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2007) Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology 243:272-306

Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) DHA, the aquatic diet, and hominin encephalization: Difficulties in establishing evolutionary links. American Journal of Human Biology 19:132-141.

Turner, B.L., Edwards, J.L., Quinn, E.A., Kingston, J.D., Van Gerven, D.P. (2006) Age-related variation in isotopic indicators of diet at medieval Kulubnarti, Sudanese Nubia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16:1-25.

Deino, A., Kingston, J.D., Glenn, J., Hill, A., and Edgar, R. (2006) Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 247:41-60.

Bishop, L.C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J.V., Braun, D., Ditchfield, P. W., Hertel, F. Kingston, J.D., Hicks, J. and R. Potts (2006) Recent research into Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya. African Archaeological Review 23(1-2): 31-40.

Kingston, J.D. (2005) Orbital controls on seasonality in Brockman, D.K. & van Schaik, C.P. (eds) Seasonality in Primates: Studies of living and extinct human and non-human Primates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 519-542.

Turner, B.L., Kingston, J.D., and Milanich, J. (2005) Isotopic Evidence of Lifelong Status during the Weeden Island and Suwanee Valley Periods in North Florida. Southeastern Archaeology 24(2): 121-136.

Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (2005) When it rains it pours: legends and truths of East African Pluvials in Lieberman, D., Smith, R., and Kelley, J. (eds), Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, 5. Hague: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 189-205.

Kingston, J.D., Jacobs, B. F., Hill, A. & Deino, A. L. (2002). Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human 42, 95-116.

Behenrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A. L., Hill, A., Kingston, J.D. & Saunders, J. J. (2002). Geology and geochronology of the middle Miocene Kipsaramon site complex, Muruyur Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 11-38.

Hill, A., Leakey, M., Kingston, J.D. & Ward, S. (2002). New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12.5 Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 75-93.

Kingston, J.D. (1999) Environmental determinants in early hominid evolution: Issues and evidence from the Tugen Hills, Kenya. In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 69-84.

Bishop, L., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Palaeoecology of Suidae from the Tugen Hills, Baringo, Kenya In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 99-111.

Jacobs, B.F., Kingston, J.D., and Jacobs, L.. (1999) Evolution of grass dominated ecosystems. In E.M. Friis, K.R. Pedersen, and P.R. Crane (eds): The origin of modern terrestrial ecosystems: Fossils, phylogeny and biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86(2): 590-643.

Kingston, J.D. (1999) Isotopes and environments of the Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 354-372.

Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (1999) Late Miocene paleoenvironments in Arabia: A synthesis. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 389-407.

Whybrow, P.J., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Late Miocene fauna and environments of the Baynunah Formation: Emirate of Abu Dhabi (Western Region), United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Faculty of Science: U.A.E. University, 10(1):120-145.

Gebo, D.L., MacLatchy, L., Kityo, R., Deino, A., Kingston, J., and Pilbeam, D. (1997). A Hominoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Science 276:401-404.

McBrearty, S., Bishop, L., and Kingston, J.D. (1996) Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 30: 563-580.

Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1994) Expansion and emergence of C4 plants. Nature 371:112-113.

Kingston, J.D., Marino, B.D., and Hill, A.P. (1994) Isotopic evidence for Neogene hominid paleoenvironments in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science 264: 955-959.

Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1994) Carbon isotopic evidence for the emergence of C4 plants in the Neogene from Pakistan and Kenya. Nature 367: 162-165

Schoeninger, M.J., Moore, K.M., Murray, M.L., and Kingston, J.D., (1989). Detection of bone preservation in archaeological and fossil samples, Journal of Applied Geochemistry 4: 281-292.

Kingston, J.D., 1985, Geology of the Lamoine Quadrangle (1:24,000), Shasta Co., California, U.S. Geological Survey open files.

ADVISORS:

Danny Rye - Research associate advisor (Yale University, Dept. Geology & Geophysics)
Andrew Hill - Post-doctorate advisor (Yale University, Dept. Anthropology)
David Pilbeam - PhD advisor (Harvard University, Dept. Anthropology)
Garniss Curtis and Richard Hay - MS advisors (U.C. Berkeley, Dept. Geology)

PAPER PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

MacLatchy, L., Cote, S. Kingston, J.D. (2007) New Early Miocene Localities at Napak, Uganda, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings, Austin.

Kingston, J.D. (submitted) Interpreting isotopic variability in fossil herbivore assemblages. 2008 American Assocation of Physical Anthropology Meetings, Columbus.

Turner, B.L., Zuckerman, M.K., Carlson, B.A., Kingston, J.D., Armelagos, G.J., Hunt, T.R., Amgalantugs, T., Frohlich, B. (submitted) Prisoners of war or victims of raids? Population dynamics and their relationship to dynastic upheaval in southern Mongolia c. 1300-1350 AD. 2008 American Assocation of Physical Anthropology Meetings, Columbus.

Zuckerman, M.K., Turner, B.L., Carlson, B.A., Kingston, J.D., Armelagos, G.J., Hunt, T.R., T.R., Amgalantugs, T., Frohlich, B. (submitted) Diet and disease in times of war: Analysis of mummified human remains from southern Mongolia c. 1300-1350 AD. 2008 American Assocation of Physical Anthropology Meetings, Columbus.

Turner,, B.L., Kingston, J.D.,Burger, R.L., and L.C. Salazar (2007) Isotopic reconstruction of paleodiet and immigration at Machu Picchu, Peru. Society of American Archeologists Meetings.

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2006) Isotopic evidence for Laetoli Paleoecology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings, Ottowa.

Maclatchy, L., Deino, A., and Kingston, J.D. (2006) A new chronology for the Early Miocene of Uganda. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings, Ottowa

Kingston, J.D., Ditchfield, P.W., Plummer, T., Bishop, L..C. and Ferraro, J. (2006) Isotopic approaches to paleoecological reconstruction at Olduvai Bed I (Tanzania) and Kanjera (Kenya). AAPA Meetings 2006, Anchorage

Turner, B.L., Kingston, J.D., Burger, R.L. and Salazar, L.C. (2006) Isotopic reconstruction of paleodiet and migration at Machu Picchu, Peru: early results. AAPA Meetings 2006, Anchorage

Ditchfield, P.W., Kingston, J.D., Plummer, T., Bishop, L.C., Ferraro, J. and Potts, R. (2006) Tooth enamel oxygen isotope analysis to investigate seasonality at the late Pliocene Oldowan site Kanjera South, Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, 2006, Puerto Rico

Plummer, T, Bishop, L.C., Ditchfield, P. W., Kingston, J.D., and Hertel, F. (2006) Consensus approach to reconstructing Oldowan Hominin Paleoecology at Kanjera (Kenya) and Olduvai Gorge Bed 1 (Tanzania). Society of American Anthropologists Meetings 2006, Puerto Rico

Kingston, J.D. (2005) Precessional Cycling in the Baringo Basin 2.7-2.55 Ma. Paleoclimates and Human Evolution Workshop. Smithsonian Institute.

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2005) Ostrich eggshells as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Pliocene Laetoli Succession, N. Tanzania. Paleoanthropological Society Meetings, Milwaukee.

Deino,A., Glen,J., Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (2005) Precessional Climatic Signal in the Plio-Pliestocene Chemeron Formation, Central Kenya Rift, 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference. Moscow, Idaho.

Quinn, E.A., Kingston, J.D., and Armelagos, G.J. (2004) Intra-individual isotopic variation of inorganic in developing infants. AAPA abstract.

Turner, B.L, Kingston, J.D., and Milanich, J.M. (2004) Isotopic Analysis of Life History and Social Stratification at Three Wheeden Island Mounds AAPA abstract

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2003) Laetoli paleoenvironments reconsidered: The isotopic evidence. Paleoanthropological Society Meetings, Tempe.

Kingston, J.D. (2003) Sources of variability in modern East African herbivore enamel: Implications for paleodietary and plaeoecological reconstructions. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36: p. 130.

Hill, A., Kingston, J.D., Deino, A., Bishop,L., Fischer, R., and Rossie, J. (2003) Late Pliocene climatic change and faunas in the Tugen Hills, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36: p. 114.

Bishop, L.C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J., Ditchfield, P.W., Hertel, F., Kingston, J.D., Braun, D., Hicks, J., Potts, R.B. (2003) The paleoenironmental setting of hominin activities at Kanjera South, western Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36: p. 67.

Turner, B.L., Edwards, J.L., Kingston, J.D. and Van Gerven, D. (2003) Nutritional assessment based on ?13C and ?15N analyses of weanlings, subadults and adult remains from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36: p. 212.

Hill, A. Deino, A., Kingston, J.D. (2003) Hominids and paleoenvironments: The view from the Tugen Hill, Kenya. Geological Society of America: 2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2-5)

Quinn, E.A., Kingston, J.D., Armelagos, G., and Van Gerven, D. (2003) Age variation in isotopic and histological profiles in the Kulubnarti R-Group (1000-1550 CE), Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36: p. 172.

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2002) Isotopically based reconstructions of early to middle Pliocene paleohabitats at Laetoli, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 34:95-96. AAPA annual meetings, Buffalo.

Sherwood, R.J. and Kingston J.D. (2002) Paleoanthropological Survey of the Lake Rukwa Basin, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 34:141. (AAPA annual meetings, Buffalo).

Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2001) High-resolution middle Pliocene landscape reconstructions at Laetoli, Tanzania, Journal of Human Evolution 40(3):A14.

Kingston, J.D. (2000) Lithofacies distribution in half-graben rifts and implications for environmental interpretations in the Baringo Basin, Kenya. NE GSA Meetings, New Brunswick.

Kingston, J.D., Hill, A., Deino, A.L. (2000) Pliocene hominid evolution and astronomically forced climate change: Evidence from the rift valley of Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 38(3):A15.

Deino, A.L., Glen, J.D, Kingston, J.D., Hill, A. (1999) 40Ar/39Ar age calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary and recognition of precessional climatic cycles in the Chemeron Formation, central Kenya Rift. American Geophysical Union Meetings.

Feibel, C.S., Kingston, J.D., and Ashley, G.M. (1999) Environmental change and early human evolution in East Africa: Aspects of geological context and sampling. INQUA Durban, South Africa.

Plummer, T., Bishop, L., Kingston, J., Sikes, N., Ditchfield, P., Hertel, F. and Ferraro, J. (1999) Reconstructing Oldowan hominid paleoecology. Paleoanthropology Society Meetings.

McBrearty, S., Brown, B., Deino, A. Kingston, J., and Ward, S. (1999) Anatomy, context, age, and affinities of hominids from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society Meetings.

McBrearty, S. and Kingston, J.D.(1996) Environmental context of a rift valley site with evidence for Middle Pleistocene blade production in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. 1996 Paleoanthropology Society Meetings (abstract).

Glimcher, M.J., Kim, H-M, Rey, C., Wu,Y., Grynpas, M.D., Ackerman, J., Morgan, M., deRicqles, A., Marino, B., Kingston,J. (1996) Further studies of the mineral phase of ~11.5 million year old giraffe bone. 3rd Intl. Conf. on bone diagenesis, Paris.

Kingston, J.D. (1994) Isotopic analyses of Plio/Pleistocene lacustrine diatoms in the Kenyan Rift Valley: Implications for terrestrial environmental reconstructions.. 1994 AAA Meeting (abstract)

McBrearty, S., Bishop, L., Kingston, J.D., Brown, B., and Ward, S. (1994) Environmental setting for hominids KNM-BK 67 and KNM-BK 8518 from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya, Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, Anaheim, California (abstract)

Kingston, J.D. (1993) Early hominid paleoenvironments in the East African Rift Valley, Paleoanthropology Society Meetings (abstract)

McBrearty, S., Bishop, L., and Kingston, J.D. (1993) Later Pleistocene technology and habitat at Simbi, Kenya, Paleoanthropology Society Meetings (abstract)

Kingston, J.D., Morgan, M.E., Marino, B.D. (1993) Stable carbon isotopic evidence for widespread late Miocene paleoenvironmental change, Amer. Assoc. Phy. Anthr.(abstract)

Glimcher, M.J., Kim, H., Rey, C., Wu, Y., Ackerman, J., Morgan, M., Marino, B., Kingston, J. (1993) Multidisciplinary study in progress of mineral phase in specimen of fossilized giraffe bone, Oxford bone and tooth biochemistry symposium .

Kingston, J.D., Hill, A., and Marino, B.D. (1992), Isotopic evidence of late Miocene/Pliocene vegetation in the East African Rift Valley, Amer. Assoc. Phy. Anthr.(abstract)

Edgar, R.K. and Kingston, J.D., (1990) Plio-Pleistocene diatoms from the Tugen Hills, Gregory Rift valley, Kenya. XIth International Symposium on living and fossil diatoms. (abstract)

Kingston, J.D. and Schoeninger, M.J., (1989) Estimating preservation of bone mineral in archeological samples, Amer. Assoc. Phy. Anthr., 78: 253 (abstract).

INVITED TALKS

Kingston, J.D (2006) Early human evolution and orbitally forced climate change in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Southern Methodist University, Program of Environmental Sciences.

Kingston, J.D (2005) Early Hominin landscapes. University of Toronto, Dept. of Anthropology.

Kingston, J.D (2004) Reconstructing paleoecology by isotopic analyses of herbivore diet. Rutgers University, Quaternary Studies Program, Dept. Geology

Kingston, J.D (2004) Laetoli Paleoecology reconsidered. Yale University Anthropology Colloquium

Kingston, J.D. (2000) Early human environments - Slippery Adaptive Terrains. Dept. Anthropology Speaker Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kingston, J.D., Jacobs, B.F., and Jacobs, L.. (2000) Grassland Origin: A synthesis of paleobotanical, paleofaunal, and isotopic records. Paleograssland 2000 Symposium, Westbrook, CT.

Kingston, J.D. (1998) ?34S, ?18O, ? 13C and Dietary Reconstructions. Global Climatic Change Symposium, Dept. Geology, Yale University.

Kingston, J.D. (1998) Late Pleistocene context for origin of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Dept. Anthropology Archeology Colloquium. Yale University.

Kingston, J.D. (1998) Interdisciplinarian approaches to understanding early hominid evolution in East Africa. Sedimentary Symposium. Dept. Geology & Geophysics, Yale University.

Kingston, J.D. (1997) An integration of isotopic and paleobotanical records for interpreting early hominid habitats in the Tugen Hills. Bill Bishop Memorial Symposium, Geological Society of London.

Bishop, L., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1997) Paleoecolgy of Suidae in the Tugen Hills, Baringo, Kenya. Bill Bishop Memorial Symposium, Geological Society of London.

Daegling , D. and Kingston, J.D. (1997) Reconnaissance of Paleocene sediments for early primate sites. Department of Anthropology, Yale University.

Kingston, J.D. (1996) Death of the Savanna Hypothesis?, Dept. Anthropology, Rutgers University.

Glimcher, M.J., Kim, H-M, Rey, C., Wu,Y., Grynpas, M.D., Ackerman, J., Morgan, M., deRicqles, A., Marino, B., Kingston,J. (1996) Further studies of the mineral phase of ~11.5 million year old giraffe bone. 3rd Intl. Conf. on bone diagenesis, Paris.

Kingston, J.D. (1995) Driving forces in human evolution. Dept. of Anatomy, SUNY Stonybrook.

Kingston, J.D. (1995) Paleodietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi. Vertebrate Paleontology Proceedings, Jebel Dannah, Abu Dhabi.

Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1995) Ecological change in the Late Miocene of Africa and Asia: Stable Carbon Isotope analysis of enamel apatite and the faunal record. European Union of Geosciences, Straasburg.Kingston, J.D. (1995) Human evolution and environmental change in East Africa. Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Kingston, J.D. (1994) Climatic variations in the Neogene of East Africa based on carbon and oxygen isotopes. Topics in Global Change Symposium - Dept. Geology and Geophysics, Yale University.

Kingston (1994) Climate, human evolution and isotopes. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth - Biological Symposium.

Kingston, J.D. (1994) Ecological context of human evolution, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.