干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development

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DOI	10.3389/feart.2021.749488
	The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development
	Nicholson, Samuel Luke; Jacobson, Matthew J.; Hosfield, Rob; Fleitmann, Dominik
通讯作者	Nicholson, SL (corresponding author), Univ Reading, Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Reading, Berks, England. ; Fleitmann, D (corresponding author), Univ Basel, Dept Environm Sci, Quaternary Geol, Basel, Switzerland.
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
EISSN	2296-6463
出版年	2021
卷号	9
英文摘要	The fluctuating climatic conditions of the Saharo-Arabian deserts are increasingly linked to human evolutionary events and societal developments. On orbital timescales, the African and Indian Summer Monsoons were displaced northward and increased precipitation to the Arabian Peninsula which led to favorable periods for human occupation in the now arid interior. At least four periods of climatic optima occurred within the last 130,000 years, related to Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5e (128-121 ka BP), 5c (104-97 ka BP), 5a (81-74 ka BP) and 1 (10.5-6.2 ka BP), and potentially early MIS 3 (60-50 ka BP). Stalagmites from Southern Arabia have been key to understanding climatic fluctuations and human-environmental interactions; their precise and high-resolution chronologies can be linked to evidence for changes in human distribution and climate/environment induced societal developments. Here, we review the most recent advances in the Southern Arabian Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene stalagmite records. We compare and contrast MIS 5e and Early Holocene climates to understand how these differed, benchmark the extremes of climatic variability and summarize the impacts on human societal development. We suggest that, while the extreme of MIS 5e was important for H. sapeins dispersal, subsequent, less intense, wet phases mitigate against a simplistic narrative. We highlight that while climate can be a limiting and important factor, there is also the potential of human adaptability and resilience. Further studies will be needed to understand spatio-temporal difference in human-environment interactions in a climatically variable region.
英文关键词	Arabia monsoon dispersal Homo sapiens stalagmite isotope climate
类型	Review
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Accepted, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000729914100001
WOS关键词	INDIAN-OCEAN CLIMATE ; RUB AL-KHALI ; HUMID PERIODS ; SAUDI-ARABIA ; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE ; SPELEOTHEM EVIDENCE ; PLUVIAL PHASE ; NEFUD DESERT ; NEGEV DESERT ; OMAN
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/373903
作者单位	[Nicholson, Samuel Luke] Univ Reading, Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Reading, Berks, England; [Jacobson, Matthew J.; Hosfield, Rob] Univ Reading, Sch Archaeol Geog & Environm Sci, Reading, Berks, England; [Fleitmann, Dominik] Univ Basel, Dept Environm Sci, Quaternary Geol, Basel, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nicholson, Samuel Luke,Jacobson, Matthew J.,Hosfield, Rob,et al. The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development[J],2021,9.
APA	Nicholson, Samuel Luke,Jacobson, Matthew J.,Hosfield, Rob,&Fleitmann, Dominik.(2021).The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,9.
MLA	Nicholson, Samuel Luke,et al."The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 9(2021).