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Multi-proxy speleothem-based reconstruction of mid-MIS 3 climate in South Africa
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of
Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, 5007,
Norway
Anna Nele Meckler
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of
Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, 5007,
Norway
Stein-Erik Lauritzen
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of
Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, 5007,
Norway
Torill Brekken
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Helen Aase Rokkan
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Alvaro Fernandez
Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Granada,
Granada, 18100, Spain
Yves Krüger
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Jane Adigun
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of South
Africa, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
Stéphane Affolter
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel,
4056, Switzerland
Markus Leuenberger
Climate and Environmental Physics Division, Physics Institute and
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3012,
Switzerland
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Short summary
The southern coast of South Africa hosts some key archeological sites for the study of early human evolution. Here we present a short but high-resolution record of past changes in the hydroclimate and temperature on the southern coast of South Africa based on the study of a speleothem collected from Bloukrantz Cave. Overall, the paleoclimate indicators suggest stable temperature from 48.3 to 45.2 ka, whereas precipitation was variable, with marked short drier episodes.
The southern coast of South Africa hosts some key archeological sites for the study of early...
