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Timing and cause of early Late Pleistocene megadrought in eastern Africa

2026-07-03

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> During the early Late Pleistocene period between ~ 135,000 and ~ 70,000 years ago (~ 135 − 70 kyr ago) tropical Africa experienced several episodes of prolonged drought that must have impacted the living environment of ancient modern humans and may have triggered their dispersal towards, and into, Eurasia. The causal mechanism of these megadroughts remains elusive, in part because pre...

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Literature Corpus work: cf625aa2-15a5-54e9-b09d-090f995c2224
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10224410/v1

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