Impacts of abrupt climate changes in the Levant from Last Glacial Dead Sea levels

A Torfstein, SL Goldstein, M Stein, Y Enzel - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
A new, detailed lake level curve for Lake Lisan (the Last Glacial Dead Sea) reveals a high
frequency of abrupt fluctuations during Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3) compared to the …

The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: deserts, dispersals, and demography

HS Groucutt, MD Petraglia - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
As a geographic connection between Africa and the rest of Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula
occupies a central position in elucidating hominin evolution and dispersals. Arabia has been …

Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years

RM Beyer, M Krapp, A Eriksson, A Manica - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Whilst an African origin of modern humans is well established, the timings and routes of their
expansions into Eurasia are the subject of heated debate, due to the scarcity of fossils and …

The climatic cyclicity in semiarid‐arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years

H Cheng, PZ Zhang, C Spötl… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Central Asia is currently a semiarid‐arid region, dominated by the Westerlies. It is important
to understand mechanisms of climate and precipitation changes here, as water availability in …

The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas

H Cheng, A Sinha, X Wang, FW Cruz, RL Edwards - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
The regional monsoons of the world have long been viewed as seasonal atmospheric
circulation reversal—analogous to a thermally-driven land-sea breeze on a continental …

The Nubian complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in southern Arabia

JI Rose, VI Usik, AE Marks, YH Hilbert, CS Galletti… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa
into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in …

[图书][B] Arid and semi-arid geomorphology

AS Goudie - 2013 - books.google.com
Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …

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 …

Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

A Vaks, M Bar-Matthews, A Matthews, A Ayalon… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Speleothems in arid and hyper-arid areas of Negev Desert, Israel, are used in paleoclimate
reconstruction of northern margins of Saharan-Arabian Desert, focused on the following …

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 …