T44 Quaternary Paleoenvironments of the Middle East: Proxy Records, Human Prehistory, and Regional Cross-Correlation

Sunday, 7 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:40 PM
  PLEISTOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOLOGY OF EGYPT
  Christopher L. Hill, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID
  73769 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  SEASONALITY DURING THE ~130 KA PLUVIAL EVENT IN THE WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT, AS INFERRED FROM STABLE ISOTOPE AND MINOR ELEMENT PROFILES OF THE FRESHWATER GASTROPOD, MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA
  Johanna M. Kieniewicz, Washington Univ in St Louis, St Louis, MO and Jennifer R. Smith, Washington Univ in St Louis, St Louis, MO
  74982 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  MID- TO LATE PLEISTOCENE PALAEOLAKES IN THE DAKHLEH OASIS, WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT
  Maxine R. Kleindienst, Univ of Toronto, Mississauga, ON and Charles S. Churcher, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON and Jennifer R. Smith, Washington Univ in St Louis, St Louis, MO and Henry P. Schwarcz, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON
  79131 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  GEOMORPHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES FOR THE STUDY OF STAGES 5 AND 4 PALEOCLIMATES AND MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC OCCUPATIONS IN JORDAN
  Carlos E. Cordova, Oklahoma State Univ, Stillwater, OK
  74935 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHY AND HUMAN PALEOECOLOGY OF THE JORDAN RIFT VALLEY
  Joseph Schuldenrein, Geoarcheology Rsch Associates, Yonkers, NY
  76654 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  AGE AND PALEOWIND REGIME OF LINEAR DUNES IN THE NORTHERN RUB AL KHALI
  Nick Lancaster, Reno, NV and Ashok Singhvi, Physical Rsch Lab, Ahmedabad, N/A and James T. Teller, Univ of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB and Ken Glennie, Ballater, N/A and V.P. Pandey, Physical Rsch Lab, Ahmedabad (now at Parbati HE Project, NHPC, Buntar Kullu), N/A
  75949 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  CATASTROPHIC ARID EPISODES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN LINKED WITH THE NORTH ATLANTIC HEINRICH EVENTS
  Yuval Bartov, Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, N/A and Steve Goldstein, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, N/A and Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, N/A and Mordechai Stein, Hebrew Univ and Geol Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, N/A
  76156 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  DISTINGUISHING REGIONAL AND LOCAL PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS: COMPARING PALEOHYDROLOGIC CHANGE AND BASIN RESPONSE FROM TWO PALEOLAKES ON THE JORDAN PLATEAU
  Caroline P. Davies, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
  80781 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE TO MIDDLE HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE IN HIGHLAND SOUTHERN YEMEN
  Joshua Anderson, Univ of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Eric A. Oches, Univ of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Joy McCorriston, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and Michael J. Harrower, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  80771 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  HOLOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF YEMEN RECONSTRUCTED FROM FOSSIL HYRAX MIDDENS
  Kenneth L. Cole, USGS Southwestern Biological Rsch Station, Flagstaff, AZ and Joy McCorriston, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  79526 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT IN THE KHABUR DRAINAGE, NORTHEAST SYRIA
  Frank Hole, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  75037 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEAD SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS TO LATE HOLOCENE REGIONAL CLIMATES AND HISTORICAL CULTURES
  Revital Bookman, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY and Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, N/A and Amotz Agnon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, N/A and Mordechai Stein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, N/A
  76136 (Technical Sessions)