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The role that climate and environmental history may have played ininfluencing human evolution has been the focus of considerable interest andcontroversy among paleoanthropologists for decades. Prior attempts tounderstand the environmental history side of this equation have centeredaround the study of outcrop sediments and fossils adjacent to where fossilhominins (ancestors or close relatives of modern humans) are found, or fromthe study of deep sea drill cores. However, outcrop sediments are oftenhighly weathered and thus are unsuitable for some types of paleoclimaticrecords, and deep sea core records come from long distances away from theactual fossil and stone tool remains. The Hominin Sites and PaleolakesDrilling Project (HSPDP) was developed to address these issues. The projecthas focused its efforts on the eastern African Rift Valley, where much of theevidence for early hominins has been recovered. We have collected about 2 kmof sediment drill core from six basins in Kenya and Ethiopia, in lakedeposits immediately adjacent to important fossil hominin and archaeologicalsites. Collectively these cores cover in time many of the key transitions andcritical intervals in human evolutionary history over the last 4 Ma, such asthe earliest stone tools, the origin of our own genus Homo, and the earliestanatomically modern <i>Homo sapiens</i>. Here we document the initialfield, physical property, and core description results of the 2012–2014HSPDP coring campaign

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits