Paleoclimate on the South African south coast during major steps of modern human evolution reconstructed using speleothem stable isotope records


Kerstin Braun1, Miryam Bar-Matthews2, Alan Matthews3, Avner Ayalon4, Richard M Cowling5, Andy IR Herries6 and Curtis W Marean1, (1)Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, United States, (2)Geological Survey Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (5)Nelson Mandela University, African Centre for Coastal Palaeosciences, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, (6)La Trobe University, The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Bundoora (Melbourne), Australia