Craig S. Feibel

Associate Professor of Geology and Anthropology
Room 207 Biological Sciences Building, Douglass Campus
(732) 932-8853
feibel@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• B.A. Dartmouth College
• M.S. Iowa State University
• Ph.D. University of Utah

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Sedimentary Geology, Environment and Human Evolution, Microstratigraphic Analysis
• Graduate: Quaternary Paleoenvironment

Research Interests

• Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, environmental geology, Africa, Middle East.

• My interests center on the investigation of the geological context for evolution in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly those related to hominid evolution and the later Neogene. My primary research area is the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where I've worked for over twenty years in association with the National Museums of Kenya. My work there involves stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology, working to establish a geologic framework and an environmental backdrop to the evolutionary and archaeological record for which that region is so famous. My other active projects at the moment include studies of Pleistocene paleoenvironments along the Levantine Corridor in Israel, stratigraphy of Miocene lake deposits in Hungary and Croatia, and geology at the Hadar hominid site in Ethiopia.

Recent Publications

• Feibel, C. S. 1997. A Terrestrial Auxiliary Stratotype Point and Section for the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary in the Turkana Basin, East Africa. Quaternary International 40: 73-79.
• Feibel, C. S. 1997. Debating the Environmental Factors in Hominid Evolution. GSA Today 7(3): 1-5.
• Semaw, S., Harris, J. W. K., Feibel, C. S., Renne, P., Bernor, R. L., Fessaha, N. and Mowbray, K. 1997. Stone tools of 2.5 million years old from Gona, Ethiopia. Nature 385: 333-336.
• Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., Bernor, R. L., Cerling, T. E., Harris, J. M., Stewart, K. M., Storrs, G. W., Walker, A., Werdelin, L., and Winkler, A. J. 1996. Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16: 556-570.
• Feibel, C. S., Agnew, N., Latimer, B., Demas, M., Marshall, F., Waane, S. A. C. and Schmid, P. 1996. The Laetoli hominid footprints - a preliminary report on the conservation and scientific restudy. Evolutionary Anthropology 4: 149-154.
• Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., McDougall, I. and Walker, A. 1995. New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay Kenya. Nature 376: 565-571.
• Feibel, C. S. 1995. Geological context and the ecology of Homo erectus in East Africa. In: Bower, J. R. F. and Sartono, S. (eds.) Evolution and ecology of Homo erectus. Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation, Leiden. pp. 67-74.
• Wynn, J. G. and Feibel, C. S. 1995. Paleoclimatic implications of vertisols within the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern, Kenya. Journal of Undergraduate Research 6(1): 32-42.
• Rogers, M. J., Harris, J. W. K. and Feibel, C. S. 1994. Changing patterns of land use by Plio-Pleistocene hominids in the Lake Turkana Basin. Journal of Human Evolution 27: 139-158.
• Feibel, C. S. 1994. Freshwater stingrays from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. Lethaia 26: 359-366.
• Coffing, K., Feibel, C., Leakey, M. and Walker, A. 1994. Four million year old hominids from East Lake Turkana, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93: 55-65.
• Goren-Inbar, N., Werker, E. and Feibel, C. S. 2002. The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: The wood assemblage. Oxbow Press, Oxford. 121 pp.
• Feibel, C. S. 2001. Archaeological sediments in lake margin environments. In: Stein, J. K. and Farrand, W. R. (eds.) Sediments in Archaeological Context. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. pp. 127-148.
• Goren-Inbar, N., Feibel,C. S., Verosub, K. L., Melamed, Y., Kislev, M. E., Tchernov, E. and Saragusti, I. 2000. Pleistocene milestones on the Out-of-Africa corridor at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Science 289: 944-947.
• Feibel, C. S. 1999. Basin evolution, sedimentary dynamics and hominid habitats in East Africa: an ecosystem approach. In: Bromage, T. and Schrenk, F. (eds.) African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 276-281.
• Feibel, C. S. 1999. Tephrostratigraphy and geological context in paleoanthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology 8: 87-100.
• McDougall, I. and Feibel, C. S. 1999. Numerical age control for the Miocene-Pliocene succession at Lothagam, a hominoid-bearing sequence in the northern Kenya Rift. Journal of the Geological Society, London 156: 731-745.
• Roche, H., Delagnes, A., Brugal, J. P., Feibel, C. S., Kibunjia, M., Mourre, V. and Texier, P. J. 1999. Early hominid stone tool production and technical skill 2.34 Myr ago in West Turkana, Kenya. Nature 399: 57-60.
• Feibel, C. S. 1999. Lakes, lacustrine processes and limnology. In: Alexander, D. E. and Fairbridge, R. W. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Chapman & Hall, New York. pp. 354-356.
• Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., McDougall, I., Ward, C. and Walker, A. 1998. New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis. Nature 393: 62-66.
• Brown, F. H. and Feibel, C. S. 1997. Lithostratigraphic terminology of Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Koobi Fora region. In: Isaac, G. Ll. (ed.) Koobi Fora Research Project, Volume 5. Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 60-63.