Late Quaternary dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone

BM Chase, ME Meadows - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Variations in the nature and extent of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone (WRZ) have the
potential to provide important information concerning the nature of long-term climate change …

Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

F Gasse, F Chalié, A Vincens, MAJ Williams… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
As part of a wider study of last glacial and deglacial climates in the Southern Hemisphere
continents, we here review terrestrial and near-shore marine records from equatorial and …

A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South …

M Bar-Matthews, CW Marean, Z Jacobs… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

Downscaling last glacial maximum climate over southern Africa

FA Engelbrecht, CW Marean, RM Cowling… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
We conducted the first dynamic downscaling of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate over
southern Africa using a regional climate model. Eight coupled global climate model (CGCM) …

The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum

BM Chase, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way
tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced rainfall regimes across the …

Middle Stone Age shellfish exploitation: Potential indications for mass collecting and resource intensification at Blombos Cave and Klasies River, South Africa

GHJ Langejans, KL van Niekerk, GL Dusseldorp… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Middle Stone Age (MSA) shellfish remains were studied for indications of changes in
subsistence adaptations. Optimal Foraging Theory was applied to the MSA shellfish species …

South African palaeoenvironments during marine oxygen isotope stage 4: a context for the Howiesons Poort and Still Bay industries

BM Chase - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Spanning the period from∼ 74–58ka, and being broadly coeval with marine oxygen isotope
stage 4 (MIS 4), the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort industries represent important phases in …

Speciation and radiations track climate transitions since the Miocene Climatic Optimum: a case study of southern African chameleons

KA Tolley, BM Chase, F Forest - Journal of Biogeography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The high amount of species diversity concentrated in southern Africa has been
attributed to palaeoclimatic factors, and the timing of radiations in some taxa corresponds to …

Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa

JT Faith - Journal of human evolution, 2013 - Elsevier
Excavations conducted by HJ Deacon in the 1970s at Boomplaas Cave (BPA) uncovered a
stratified sequence of Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) deposits …

Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

BM Chase, S Lim, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract South Africa's southwestern Cape occupies a critical transition zone between
Southern Hemisphere temperate (winter) and tropical (summer) moisture-bearing systems …