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Understanding Quaternary variations in water availability in the Near East as a key for future projections of regional environmental change

Fachliche Zuordnung Paläontologie
Förderung Förderung von 2010 bis 2018
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 143996498
 
Erstellungsjahr 2019

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The environmental and climate conditions during times of human activities in the Levant were reconstructed based on sediments and fossils collected from the Middle Paleolithic archaeological site Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO: ca. 60 ka), the Lower Paleolithic Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site (GBY: ca. 800 ka), and the Late Upper Paleolithic Ohalo-II site (ca. 24 ka) in Israel. In addition, sediments and fossils from the Lower Paleolithic Nadaouiyeh Aïn Askar site (ca. 500 ka) in Syria were investigated. Results of the analyses of the Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene materials from the Hula Basin in northern Israel (sites NMO and GBY) suggest that environmental conditions were apparently surprisingly stable. A slight temperature reduction was inferred from the fossil ostracod assemblages of GBY. In contrast, significantly colder and drier conditions were inferred from geochemical and micropalaeontological data from Ohalo-II at the Sea of Galilee. A tool for the reconstruction of the conductivity or estimation of salinity of ancient water bodies in the Near East was established based on the ostracod species distribution in modern waters and was applied to fossil ostracod assemblages, and is now available for future analyses.

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