9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher-foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106459
Abstract: Abstract In this study, new approaches are developed for measuring and understanding the reactivity of East African amplifier lakes and the societies that occupied their margins to African monsoon related hydrological changes. Drawing on seven… read more here.
Keywords: abhe lake; african humid; ethiopian afar; period ... See more keywords
Nature and dynamics of North African humid and dry periods during the last 200,000 years documented in the clay fraction of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106925
Abstract: Abstract The African monsoon system controlled the mobilisation and delivery of clay-sized sediment particles to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in the late Quaternary. During African Humid Periods of the last 200 kyr, smectite-rich suspension load… read more here.
Keywords: african humid; humid; humid periods; eastern mediterranean ... See more keywords
Intensity of African Humid Periods Estimated from Saharan Dust Fluxes
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170989
Abstract: North Africa experienced dramatic changes in hydrology and vegetation during the late Quaternary driven by insolation-induced shifts of the tropical rain belt and further modulated by millennial-scale droughts and vegetation-climate feedbacks. While most past proxy… read more here.
Keywords: humid periods; african humid; humid; saharan dust ... See more keywords