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Exploring human responses to climate change in North Africa using oxygen and carbon stable isotopes from small mammal teeth

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Available evidence indicates that climate in North-West Africa has varied strongly since the Last Interglacial between periods of humidity and aridity, along with expansions and contractions in the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert. This research explores past humid and arid climate shifts in North Africa over the last 100ka using stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from small mammal teeth excavated from archaeological cave sites located on the Mediterranean coastal plain of Morocco. Here we present modern and pilot archaeological stable isotope data from Meriones and Gerbillus that demonstrate patterned isotope variability across mesic and arid environments, and temporal shifts indicating moisture changes in the past.
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hal-03033298 , version 1 (01-12-2020)

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Amy Jeffrey, Nick Barton, Christiane Denys, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, et al.. Exploring human responses to climate change in North Africa using oxygen and carbon stable isotopes from small mammal teeth. Green Arabia: Human Prehistory at the Cross-Roads of Continents, Apr 2014, Oxford, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-03033298⟩
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