Iconic publications

NOVELLO A., D. BARBONI, F. SYLVESTRE, A.E. LEBATARD, C. PAILLÈS, A. LIKIUS, H.T. MACKAYE, P. VIGNAUD & M.BRUNET (2017) – Phytoliths indicate significant arboreal cover at Sahelanthropus type locality TM266 in northern Chad and a decrease in later sites. Journal of Human Evolution 106 : 66-83.

NOVELLO, A., LEBATARD A.E., MOUSSA A., BARBONI D., SYLVESTRE F., BOURLÈS D.L., PAILLÈS C., BUCHET G., DECARREAU A., DURINGER P., GHIENNE J.F.,MALEY J., MAZUR J.-C., ROQUIN C., SCHUSTER M. & VIGNAUD, P. (2015) – Diatom, phytolith, and pollen records from a 10Be/9Be dated lacustrine succession in the Chad Basin : Insight on the Miocene-Pliocene paleoenvironmental changes in central Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 430, 85-103.

LEE-THORP J., LIKIUS A., MACKAYE H.T., VIGNAUD P., SPONHEIMER M. AND BRUNET M. (2012) – Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C4 resources by Pliocene hominins in Chad – Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA, doi/10.1073/ pnas. 1204209109.

SCHUSTER M., DURINGER P., GHIENNE J.F., VIGNAUD P., MACKAYE H.T., LIKIUS A. & BRUNET M. (2006) – The Age of the Sahara Desert. Science, 311 : 821.

BRUNET M., GUY F., PILBEAM D., LIEBERMAN D.E., LIKIUS A., MACKAYE H.T., PONCE DE LEON M., ZOLLIKOFER P.E. & VIGNAUD P. (2005) – New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. Nature, 434 : 752-755.

GUY F., LIEBERMAN D. E., PILBEAM D., PONCE DE LEON M., LIKIUS A., MACKAYE H. T., VIGNAUD P. ZOLLIKOFER C. & BRUNET M. (2005) – Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene Hominid, Chad) cranium Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102 : 18836-18841.

ZOLLIKOFER C.P.E., PONCE DE LEÓN M.S., LIEBERMAN D.E., GUY F., PILBEAM D., LIKIUS A., MACKAYE H.T., VIGNAUD P. & BRUNET M. (2005) – Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Nature, 434 : 755-759.

BRUNET M. et al., dont VIGNAUD P. (2002) – A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature, 418 : 145-151.

VIGNAUD P. et al. (2002) – Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad. Nature, 418 : 152-155.

BRUNET M., BEAUVILAIN A., GERAADS D., GUY F., KASSER M., MACKAYE H.T., MACLATCHY L. M., MOUCHELIN G., SUDRE J. & VIGNAUD P. (1997) – Tchad: un nouveau site à Hominidés Pliocène. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 324 (2) : 341-345.