Concurrent Asian monsoon strengthening and early modern human dispersal to East Asia during the last interglacial

H Ao, J Ruan, M Martinón-Torres… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The relationship between initial Homo sapiens dispersal from Africa to East Asia and the
orbitally paced evolution of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM)—currently the largest …

Paleoenvironments and climate at Nahal Me'arot (Mount Carmel, Israel) during the Middle and Late Pleistocene: The herpetofauna of Tabun Cave and el-Wad …

M Lev, R Shimelmitz, M Weinstein-Evron… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Paleolithic record of the Levant encompasses several key changes in human
population dynamics and human biological and cultural evolution. These processes are …

Extended longevity of DNA preservation in levantine paleolithic sediments, sefunim cave, Israel

V Slon, JL Clark, DE Friesem, M Orbach, N Porat… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Paleogenomic research can elucidate the evolutionary history of human and faunal
populations. Although the Levant is a key land-bridge between Africa and Eurasia, thus far …

Expansion of eastern Mediterranean Middle Paleolithic into the desert region in early marine isotopic stage 5

O Barzilai, M Oron, N Porat, D White, R Timms… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Marine Isotopic Stage 5 is associated with wetter climatic conditions in the Saharo-
Arabian deserts. This stage also corresponds to the establishment of Middle Paleolithic …

Human prey choice refutes “Levantine overkill”: Comment on Dembitzer et al.(2022)

M Orbach, L Amos, R Yeshurun - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Dembitzer et al.(2022) aim to connect the Levantine faunal record to the global discussion
on anthropogenic Quaternary extinctions. They provide a comprehensive database with a …

Cave paleozoology in the Judean Desert: assembling records of Holocene wild mammal communities

IA Lazagabaster, N Égüez, M Ullman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long temporal records of Holocene wild mammal communities are essential to examine the
role of human impacts and climatic fluctuations in the configuration of modern ecosystems …

The late middle pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean desert: Taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment

N Marom, IA Lazagabaster, R Shafir… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of the southern Levant has
proven key to understanding human evolution and intercontinental faunal biogeography …

Faunal remains from the Upper Paleolithic site of Nahal Rahaf 2 in the southern Judean Desert, Israel

N Marom, DL Gnezdilov, R Shafir… - Peer Community …, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
Abstract Nahal Rahaf 2 (NR2) is an Early Upper Paleolithic (ca. 35 kya) rock shelter in the
southern Judean Desert in Israel. Two excavation seasons in 2019 and 2020 revealed a …

Evaluating species distribution model predictions through time against paleozoological records

IA Lazagabaster, CD Thomas, JV Spedding… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to project how species distributions
may vary over time, particularly in response climate change. Although the fit of such models …

Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti‐predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite

G Mayr, UB Göhlich, Z Roček, A Lemierre… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report avian cervical vertebrae from the Quercy fissure fillings in France, which are
densely covered with villi‐like tubercles. Two of these vertebrae stem from a late Eocene …