Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East∼ 250–70,000 years ago

PS Breeze, HS Groucutt, NA Drake, TS White… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The timing and extent of palaeoenvironmental connections between northeast Africa, the
Levant and the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle and Late Pleistocene are critical to …

Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

I Neugebauer, A Brauer, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The sedimentary sections that were deposited from the Holocene Dead Sea and its
Pleistocene precursors are excellent archives of the climatic, environmental and seismic …

Dead Sea drawdown and monsoonal impacts in the Levant during the last interglacial

A Torfstein, SL Goldstein, Y Kushnir, Y Enzel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sediment cores recovered by the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP) from the
deepest basin of the hypersaline, terminal Dead Sea (lake floor at∼ 725 m below mean sea …

Human dispersals out of Africa via the Levant

M Abbas, Z Lai, JD Jansen, H Tu, M Alqudah, X Xu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late
Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial …

Paleo aridity in the Levant driven by a strong North Atlantic latitudinal surface temperature gradient and present-day relevance

Y Kushnir, M Stein, M Biasutti, Y Kiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The mechanisms underlying the current greenhouse gas (GHG) forced decline in
Mediterranean rainfall remain a matter of debate. To inform our understanding of the current …

Millennial to orbital-scale variations of drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean

M Stockhecke, A Timmermann, R Kipfer… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Millennial to orbital-scale rainfall changes in the Mediterranean region and corresponding
variations in vegetation patterns were the result of large-scale atmospheric reorganizations …

Sources and transport routes of fine detritus material to the Late Quaternary Dead Sea basin

A Haliva-Cohen, M Stein, SL Goldstein… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The sources and routes of transport of fine detritus material (FDM) to the lakes filling the late
Quaternary Dead Sea basin were studied by petrographic, mineralogical, grain size …

[HTML][HTML] A new Dead Sea pollen record reveals the last glacial paleoenvironment of the southern Levant

A Miebach, S Stolzenberger, L Wacker, A Hense… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The southern Levant is a key region for studying vegetation developments in relation to
climate dynamics and hominin migration processes in the past due to the sensitivity of the …

Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record

YB Dor, I Neugebauer, Y Enzel, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of
past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region …

Northward intrusions of low-and mid-latitude storms across the Saharo-Arabian belt during past interglacials

N Waldmann, A Torfstein, M Stein - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rain regime of the Levant during the late Quaternary was controlled primarily by
Mediterranean cyclonic systems associated with North Atlantic climate shifts. Lake levels in …