Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes: the ISOMED synthesis

N Roberts, MD Jones, A Benkaddour… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Lake isotope records can be used to assess the spatial coherency of Late Quaternary
climate change across the circum-Mediterranean region. We place modern and palaeo-data …

The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

Y Enzel, R Amit, U Dayan, O Crouvi, R Kahana… - Global and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to
synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental …

Climate and the Late Bronze collapse: new evidence from the southern Levant

D Langgut, I Finkelstein, T Litt - Tel Aviv, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

A review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP: setting the environmental background …

SA Robinson, S Black, BW Sellwood… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The southern Levant has a long history of human habitation and it has been previously
suggested that climatic changes during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene stimulated changes …

Seven ambiguities in the Mediterranean palaeoenvironmental narrative

PC Tzedakis - Quaternary science reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
A review of seven outstanding issues on Mediterranean palaeoenvironments is presented.
These are related to the dominant orbital pacing of climate variability, the length of the …

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 …

Drought and societal collapse 3200 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean: A review

D Kaniewski, J Guiot… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the goals of climate scientists is to understand how climate shifts may have changed
the course of history and influenced culture at millennial timescales. Repeatedly …

[KIRJA][B] The lithic assemblages of Qafzeh Cave

E Hovers - 2009 - books.google.com
This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from
Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple …

Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record

T Litt, C Ohlwein, FH Neumann, A Hense… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Dead Sea, located at the deepest place on continent and between the subtropical
Mediterranean zone and the desert, reflects in its water composition and levels, and …

Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev …

A Vaks, M Bar-Matthews, A Ayalon, A Matthews… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Speleothem bearing karstic caves of the northern Negev Desert, southern Israel, provides
an ideal site for reconstructing the paleoclimate and paleo-location of the border between …