“…Although we have longterm records that demonstrate changes in plant landscape composition (Feakins et al, 2005;Feakins et al, 2007;Feakins et al, 2013;Uno K. T. et al, 2016), they do not necessarily show the ecological subtleties and complexity that on-site (i.e., proximal) records can provide. Increasingly, however, phytolith and pollen records (Bonnefille, 1995;Barboni et al, 1999;Albert et al, 2006;Bamford et al, 2006;Bamford et al, 2008;Albert et al, 2009;Barboni et al, 2010;Rossouw and Scott, 2011;Albert and Bamford, 2012;Barboni, 2014;Albert et al, 2018;Itambu, 2019;Mercader et al, 2021;Stollhofen et al, 2021), as well as paleontological and stable isotope analyses (WoldeGabriel et al, 1994;Cerling et al, 1997;Pickford and Senut, 2001;Wynn, 2001;White et al, 2009b;WoldeGabriel et al, 2009;Prassack, 2010;Cerling et al, 2011;Kovarovic et al, 2013;Magill et al, 2013a;Quinn et al, 2013;Bibi and Kiessling, 2015;Bibi et al, 2018;Colcord et al, 2018;Pante and de la Torre, 2018;Prassack et al, 2018;Faith et al, 2019;Roberts et al, 2020;Sanders, 2020), have sought to track changes in landscapes occupied by Pleistocene hominins. The pursuit of more detailed data relating to hominin population resourc...…”