PP31G:
The Late Quaternary African-Syrian Rift Valley: Climate, Hydrology, and Human Dispersal I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Co-conveners:  Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
PP31G-01
 
A Review of New and Anticipated High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Hominin Evolution and Demography
Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
8:12 AM
PP31G-02
 
LATITUDINAL HYDROLOGIC VARIABILITY ALONG THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT, OVER THE PAST 200 KYR
Christopher A Scholz, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY, United States
8:24 AM
PP31G-03
 
Human Dispersals Along the African Rift Valley in the Late Quaternary
Christian A Tryon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, J. Tyler Faith, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia and Daniel J Peppe, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
8:36 AM
PP31G-04
 
Waxing and Waning of Forests: Late Quaternary Biogeography of Lake Malawi, Southeast Africa
Sarah Ivory, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Anne-Marie Lézine, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Annie Vincens, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
8:48 AM
PP31G-05
 
The Last Interglacial in the Levant: Perspective from the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drill Core
Steven L Goldstein1, Adi Torfstein2, Mordechai Stein3, Yochanan Kushnir1, Yehouda Enzel2 and Gerald Hermann Haug4, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
9:00 AM
PP31G-06
 
Freshening of the Dead Sea during the Last Glacial Revealed By Porewater Composition in ICDP Dead Sea Deep-Drill
Boaz Lazar1, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli3, Elan J. Levy2, Gilad Antler4, Ittai Gavrieli3 and Mordechai Stein3, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel, (3)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
9:12 AM
PP31G-07
 
Where East Africa and the Levant Are Climatically Connected: An Alternative View of the Northward Shifts of Either the ITCZ and/or the Indian Summer Monsoon
Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Yochanan Kushnir, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States and Jay Quade, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
9:24 AM
PP31G-08
 
The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel: environment, hominin culture, subsistence and adaptation on the shores of the paleo-Hula Lake
Naama Goren-Inbar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
9:36 AM
PP31G-09
 
A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Turkey
Thomas Litt, Nadine Pickarski and Georg Heumann, University of Bonn, Steinmann Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, Bonn, Germany
9:48 AM
PP31G-10
 
Millennial to orbital-scale ice sheet effects on drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean
Mona Stockhecke1,2, Axel Timmermann3, Rolf Kipfer1,2, Gerald Hermann Haug1, Ola Kwiecien2,4, Tobias Friedrich5, Laurie Menviel6, Thomas Litt7, Nadine Pickarski7 and Flavio Anselmetti8, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (3)IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (5)IPRC-SOEST, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (7)University of Bonn, Steinmann Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, Bonn, Germany, (8)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
 
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