2021
Christopher B. Ruff, Roshna E. Wunderlich, Kevin G. Hatala, Russell H. Tuttle, Charles E. Hilton, David M. Webb, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Charles Musiba, Michael Baksh. Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins. Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 156, July 2021, 10299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102997.
Ellison J. Mcnutt1, Kevin G. Hatala, Catherine Miller, James Adams, Jesse Casana, Andrew S. Deane, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Kallisti Fabian, Luke D. Fannin, Stephen Gaughan, Simone V. Gill, Josephat Gurtu, Ellie Gustafson, Austin C. Hill, Camille Johnson, Said Kallindo, Benjamin Kilham, Phoebe Kilham, Elizabeth Kim, Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Blaine Maley, Anjali Prabhat, John Reader, Shirley Rubin, Nathan E. Thompson, Rebeca Thornburg, Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Brian Zimmer, Charles M. Musiba, and Jeremy M. Desilva. Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity At Laetoli Tanzania. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04187-7.
2019
Bergstrom, K., Lawrence, A. B., Pelissero, A. J., Hammond, L. J., Maro, E., Bunn, H. T., & Musiba, C. M. High-resolution UAV map reveals erosional patterns and changing topography at Isimila, Tanzania. South African Journal of Science, Vol. 115 (7/8): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5911.
2018
Musiba, C., Kang, D. Towards a community-based conservation and sustainable use of Tanzania’s Heritage. Word Heritage for Sustainable Development in Africa, UNESCO Publication. Pages 225-231.
2017
Timothy L. Campbell, Zachary W. Pierce, Kathleen N. Dolman, Marion Bamford, Cassian Magori and Charles Musiba. Syntopy and co-utilization of a “roosting area” by the barn owl (Tyto alba) and spotted eagle owl (Bubo africanus) in Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12485
Laird, M. F., L. Schroeder, H. M. Garvin, J. E. Scott, M. Dembo, D. Radovcic, C. M. Musiba, R. R. Ackermann, P. Schmid, J. Hawks, L. R. Berger, and D. J. de Ruiter. The skull of Homo naledi. Journal of Human Evolution 104:100-123.
Wei, P., Wallace, I.J., Jashashvili, T., Musiba, C.M., and Liu, Wu. Structural analysis of the femoral diaphysis of an early modern human from Tianyun Cave, China. Quaternary International, volume 434, Part A, 1 April 2017, Pages 48-56. Http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.099.
2016
Dembo, M., Radovčic, D., Garvin, H.M., Laird, M.F., Schroeder, L., Scott, J.E., Brophy, J., Delezene, L.K., Ackermann, R.R., Musiba, C.M., De Ruiter, D.J., Mooers, A.O., and Collard, M. The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: an assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods. Journal of Human Evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, Vol. 97: 17-26 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.04.008.
2015
Paul HGM Dirks, P.H.G.M., Berger, L.R., Roberts, E.M., Kramers, J.D., Hawks, J., Randolph-Quinney, P.S., Elliott, M., Musiba, C.M., Churchill, S.E., de Ruiter, D.J., Schmid, P., Backwell, L.R., Belyanin, G.A., Boshoff, P., Hunter, K.L., Feuerriegel, E.M., Gurtov, A., Harrison, J.G., Hunter, R., Kruger, A., Morris, H., Makhubela, T.V., Peixotto, B. and Tucker, S. Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. eLife 2015;4: e09561. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09561.
2015
Berger, L.R., Hawk, J., de Ruiter, D.J., Churchill1, S.E., Schmid, P, Delezene, L.K., Kivell1,T.L., Garvin, H.M., Williams, S.A., DeSilva, J.M., Skinner, M.M., Musiba, C.M., Cameron, N., Holliday, T.W., Harcourt-Smith1, W., Ackermann, R.R., Bastir1, M., Bogin, B., Bolter, D., Brophy, J., Cofran, Z.D., Congdon, K.A., Deane, A.S., Dembo, M., Drapeau, M., Elliott, M.C., Feuerriegel, E.M., Garcia-Martinez, D., Green, D.J., Gurtov, A., Irish, J.D., Kruger, A., Laird, M.F., Marchi1,D., Meyer, M.R., Nalla, S., Negash, E.W., Orr, C.M., Radovcic, D., Schroeder, L., Scott1, J.E., Throckmorton, Z., Tocheri, M.W., VanSickle, C., Walker, C.S., Wei, P., and Zipfel, B. Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. eLife 2015;4: e09560. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09560.
2014
Musiba, C. Comments on M. Dominguez-Rodrigo (2014). Is the "Savanna Hypothesis" a dead Concept for Explaining the Emergence of the Earliest Hominins? Current Anthropology, vol. 55(1): 59-81.
Musiba, C. The administration of Cultural World Heritage Sites and Their Contribution to the Economic Empowerment of Local Communities in Africa. In S. Makuvaza (Ed.), The Management of Cultural World Heritage Sites and Development in Africa.SpringerBriefs in Archaeology / SpringerBriefs in Archaeological Heritage Management, 103p.
Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Diez-Martín, F., Mabulla, A., Baquedano, E., Bunn, H., and Musiba, C. The evolution of hominin behavior during the Oldowan-Acheulian transition: Recent evidence from Olduvai Gorge and Peninj (Tanzania). Quaternary International (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.017.
2013
Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Pickering, T.R., Baquedano, E., Mabulla, A., Mark, D.F., Musiba, C., Bunn, H.T., Uribelarrea, D., Smith, V., Diez-Martin, F., Pérez-González, A., Sánchez, P., Santoja, M., Barboni, D., Gidna, G., Ashley, G., Yravedra, J., Heaton, J.L., and Arriaza, M.C. First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLOS ONE, Volume 8 (12) e80347: 1-10.
Pickering, T.R., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Heaton, J.L., Yravedra, J., Barba, R., Bunn, H.T., Musiba, C., Baquedano, E., Diez-Martin, F., Mabulla, A., and Brain, C.K. 2013. Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40(2):1295-1309.
Gidna, A.O., Kisui, B., Mabulla, A., Musiba, C., and Dominguez-Rodrigo, M. An ecological neo-taphonomic study of carcass consumption by lions in Tarangire National Park (Tanzania) and its relevance for human evolutionary biology. Quaternary International (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.059.
2012
Musiba. C. 2012. Negotiating Conservation and Sustainable Use of Tanzania’s Paleoanthropological Heritage: The Laetoli Hominin Footprints Site in Ngorongoro, Northern Tanzania. In Alicia Castillo (Eds.): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology, pages 413-435. Editora, Complutense, Spain.
Musiba, C., Mabulla, A., Mutakyahwa, M., Masao, F., Runyoro, V., Kim, J.Y., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Mbwana, N., Ndunguru, F., Odunga, S., Washa, J., Paresso, J., and Stepanek. V. 2012. Tanzania and the Outstanding Universal Value of its paleoanthropology: approaches at Laetoli and lessons learned. In Nuria Sanz (Eds.): Human Origin Sites and the World Heritage Convention in Africa. World Heritage Papers Series, Vol. 33: 115-125.
Baquedano, E., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., and Musiba, C. An experimental study of large mammal bone modification by crocodiles and its bearing on the interpretation of crocodile predation at FLK Zinj and FLK NN3. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39: 1728-1737.
Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Bunn, H.T., Pickering, T.R., Mabulla, A.Z.P., Musiba, C.M., Baquedano, E., Ashley, G.M., Diez-Martin, F., Uribelarrea, D., Barba, R., Yravedra, J., Barboni, D., Arriaza, C., and Gidna, A. Autochthony and orientation patterns in Olduvai Bed I: a re-examination of the status of post-depositional biasing of archaeological assemblages from FLK North (FLKN). Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 39(7): 2116-2127.
Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Pickering, T.R., Diez-Martin, F., Mabulla, A., Musiba, C., Trancho, G., Baquedano, E., Bunn, H.T., Barboni, DE., Santoja, M., Uribelarrea, D., Ashley, G., del Sol Martinez-Avilla, M., Barba, B., Gidna, A., Yravedra, J., and Arriaza, C. Earliest Hyperostosis on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46414 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046414.
Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Gidna, A.O., Yravedra, J., and Musiba, C. A comparative Neo-Taphonomic Study of Felids, Hyaenids, and Canids: an Analogical Framework Based on Long Bone Modification Patterns. Journal of Taphonomy, volume 10(3-4): 151-170.
2011
Meldrum, D.J., Lockley, M.G., Lucas, S.G., and Musiba, C. Ichnotaxonomy of the Laetoli trackways: The earliest hominin footprints. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 60:1-12.
Musiba, C.M., Laciny, C., and Magori, C.C. Endocast of Saldanha skull: revised description, comparative status and behavioral possibilities. In G. Sarana and R.P. SArivastava (Eds.,) Studies in Socioal and Physical Anthropology. . Rawat Publications, Jaipur, New Delhi.
2010
Dominquez-Rodrigo, M and Musiba, C.M. How accurate are paleoecological reconstructions of early paleontological and archaeological sites. Evolutionary Biology, 37:128-140 (DOI10.1007/s11692-010-9087-2).
