The Stalagmite Record of Southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development

Speleothem growth phases in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt reveal enhanced humidity throughout MIS 5

(2021) Felix Henselowsky et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia

(2021) Eleanor M. L. Scerri et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years

(2021) Huw S. Groucutt et al.   NATURE

Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5

(2021) Samuel Luke Nicholson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

(2020) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

(2020) Mathew Stewart et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

The Holocene humid period in the Nefud Desert: Hunters and herders in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, Saudi Arabia

(2020) Maria Guagnin et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon

(2020) Huw S Groucutt et al.   HOLOCENE

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

(2020) Mathew Stewart et al.   Science Advances

Quantification of African Monsoon Runoff During Last Interglacial Sapropel S5

(2019) Jessica D. Amies et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Pluvial periods in Southern Arabia over the last 1.1 million-years

(2019) Samuel L. Nicholson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Speleothem evidence for the greening of the Sahara and its implications for the early human dispersal out of sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Mohammed I. El-Shenawy et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A 550,000-year record of East Asian monsoon rainfall from10Be in loess

(2018) J. Warren Beck et al.   SCIENCE

Dating a near eastern desert hunting trap (kite) using rock surface luminescence dating

(2018) Sahar al Khasawneh et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

(2018) Huw S. Groucutt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Middle-late Quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia

(2018) Ash Parton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

PaleoClim, high spatial resolution paleoclimate surfaces for global land areas

(2018) Jason L. Brown et al.   Scientific Data

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods

(2017) Katharine M. Grant et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes

(2016) K.M. Grant et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology

(2016) Christopher M. Stimpson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

(2015) E.J. Rohling et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Alluvial fan records from southeast Arabia reveal multiple windows for human dispersal

(2015) Ash Parton et al.   GEOLOGY

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

(2015) Wu Liu et al.   NATURE

Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals

(2015) Ash Parton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

(2015) Richard P. Jennings et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A multi-proxy analysis of the Holocene humid phase from the United Arab Emirates and its implications for southeast Arabia's Neolithic populations

(2015) Gareth W. Preston et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Early–Middle Holocene environmental changes and pre-Neolithic human occupations as recorded in the cavities of Jebel Qara (Dhofar, southern Sultanate of Oman)

(2015) Mauro Cremaschi et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Palaeo-environmental implications derived from lake and sabkha deposits of the southern Rub' al-Khali, Saudi Arabia and Oman

(2015) Albert Matter et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia

(2015) Huw S. Groucutt et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

(2015) L. Bruce Railsback et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review

(2014) Philip K Thornton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pliocene–Pleistocene climate of the northern margin of Saharan–Arabian Desert recorded in speleothems from the Negev Desert, Israel

(2013) A. Vaks et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

(2013) Juan C. Larrasoaña et al.   PLoS One

The environmental context of Paleolithic settlement at Jebel Faya, Emirate Sharjah, UAE

(2013) Knut Bretzke et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic

(2013) Anne Delagnes et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

An early MIS 3 pluvial phase in Southeast Arabia: Climatic and archaeological implications

(2013) Ash Parton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Middle and Late Pleistocene humid periods recorded in palaeolake deposits of the Nafud desert, Saudi Arabia

(2013) Thomas M. Rosenberg et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen

(2012) Anne Delagnes et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

(2012) K. M. Grant et al.   NATURE

Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia

(2012) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   PLoS One

Humid periods in southern Arabia: Windows of opportunity for modern human dispersal

(2011) T.M. Rosenberg et al.   GEOLOGY

Late Pleistocene palaeolake in the interior of Oman: a potential key area for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out-of-Africa?

(2011) Thomas M. Rosenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia

(2011) Jeffrey I. Rose et al.   PLoS One

StalAge – An algorithm designed for construction of speleothem age models

(2011) Denis Scholz et al.   Quaternary Geochronology

Rivers of the Hadramawt watershed (Yemen) during the Holocene: Clues of late functioning

(2011) Jean-François Berger et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The early Holocene humid period in NW Saudi Arabia – Sediments, microfossils and palaeo-hydrological modelling

(2011) Max Engel et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

(2011) Michael D. Petraglia et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holocene and Pleistocene pluvial periods in Yemen, southern Arabia

(2011) Dominik Fleitmann et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Southern Route "Out of Africa": Evidence for an Early Expansion of Modern Humans into Arabia

(2011) S. J. Armitage et al.   SCIENCE

Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

(2010) Anton Vaks et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia

(2009) Dominik Fleitmann et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Timing of vegetation changes at the end of the Holocene Humid Period in desert areas at the northern edge of the Atlantic and Indian monsoon systems

(2009) Anne-Marie Lézine   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from δ18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil

(2009) Hai Cheng et al.   GEOLOGY

Ice Age Terminations

(2009) H. Cheng et al.   SCIENCE

A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500–50ka

(2008) Andrew R. Millard   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evidence for a widespread climatic anomaly at around 9.2 ka before present

(2008) Dominik Fleitmann et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

A 20 ka sediment record from the Hajar Mountain range in N-Oman, and its implication for detecting arid–humid periods on the southeastern Arabian Peninsula

(2007) Markus Fuchs et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS