The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations

Quaternary International

Volumn 382, Issue , 2015, Pages 181-199

  Jennings, Richard P ^a   Singarayer, Joy ^b   Stone, Emma J ^c   Krebs Kanzow, Uta ^d   Khon, Vyacheslav ^e,f   Nisancioglu, Kerim H ^g,h   Pfeiffer, Madlene ^d   Zhang, Xu ^d   Parker, Adrian ⁱ   Parton, Ash ^a   Groucutt, Huw S ^a   White, Tom S ^a   Drake, Nick A ^j   Petraglia, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^h Uni Research   (Norway)

ⁱ OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Arabian peninsula; Climate models; Human evolution; Late pleistocene; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MONSOON; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

ARABIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84941811865     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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