Sedimentary records of environmental conditions retrieved from archeological sites provide
valuable insight into the milieux of ancient humans and context to understand societal and …

For more than 10,000 years between the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum and the
beginning of the Holocene, people repeatedly returned to the same spot on the southern …

The draining of the herein introduced ancient Lake Elji, and the subsequent erosion of its
lacustrine sediments, were necessary precursors to the Late Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) and …

Abstract Jordan River Dureijat (JRD), an Epipaleolithic site on the banks of the Jordan River
south of its outlet from the Hula Valley, was discovered as a result of a drainage operation in …

An Early Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine sequence from the extremely arid southern Negev
desert, Israel, indicates that climatic conditions during that period were humid enough to …

Remnant lake and stream terraces of the Wadi el Hasa (west‐central Jordan) are associated
with in situ prehistoric sites spanning> 100,000 years. Eighteen radiocarbon dates from …

Former lakes and wetlands can provide valuable insights to the late Pleistocene
environments encountered by the first humans to enter the Levant from Africa. Fluvial …

In this paper we present the sedimentary features and the luminescence chronology for
Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO), an archaeological open air site at the southern margin of …

Many water-stressed regions of the globe have a highly seasonal precipitation regime.
However, seasonality in the past and under changing climates is little studied. Submonthly …

The ancestral valley of the Wadi al-Hammeh in northwestern Jordan is backfilled by a 60-m
thick body of sediment. A comprehensive series of radiocarbon dates and in-situ …