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SUBMITTER: Hartman G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4839398 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hartman Gideon G Bar-Yosef Ofer O Brittingham Alex A Grosman Leore L Munro Natalie D ND
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160328 15
The climatic downturn known globally as the Younger Dryas (YD; ∼12,900-11,500 BP) has frequently been cited as a prime mover of agricultural origins and has thus inspired enthusiastic debate over its local impact. This study presents seasonal climatic data from the southern Levant obtained from the sequential sampling of gazelle tooth carbonates from the Early and Late Natufian archaeological sites of Hayonim and Hilazon Tachtit Caves (western Galilee, Israel). Our results challenge the entrench ...[more]