Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

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 …

Mid-Holocene (7000—4000 yr BP) paleoclimate conditions were reconstructed for the
eastern Mediterranean region through a high-resolution (3—20 yr) oxygen and carbon …

The Levant constitutes an important region for assessing linkages between climate and
societal changes throughout the course of human history. However, large uncertainties …

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 …

Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to
synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental …

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 …

Coastal South Africa draws interdisciplinary interests due to the co-occurrence of a rich
record for early human behavioral modernity, hyper-diverse vegetation with very high …

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 …