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 Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2131-2145

  Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a   Marean, Curtis W ^b   Jacobs, Zenobia ^c   Karkanas, Panagiotis ^d   Fisher, Erich C ^e   Herries, Andy I R ^f   Brown, Kyle ^b,g   Williams, Hope M ^h   Bernatchez, Jocelyn ^h   Ayalon, Avner ^a   Nilssen, Peter J ⁱ  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology   (Greece)

^e University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Centre for Heritage and Archaeological Resource Management   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATIC STABILITY; CO-OCCURRENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATES; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER RAINFALL; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; TIME SPAN; WARMER CONDITIONS; WINTER RAINS;

INNOVATION; ISOTOPES; RAIN; SECURITY OF DATA; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MODERNITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPELEOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CAPE COAST; CENTRAL REGION [GHANA]; GHANA; PINNACLE POINT; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

POACEAE;

EID: 77955278348     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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