A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa
dc.rights.license | open | en_US |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | CALEY, Thibaut | |
hal.structure.identifier | Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] [LSCE] | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | EXTIER, Thomas | |
hal.structure.identifier | German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam [GFZ] | |
dc.contributor.author | COLLINS, James | |
hal.structure.identifier | Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] [MARUM] | |
dc.contributor.author | SCHEFUSS, Enno | |
hal.structure.identifier | Department of Geosciences [Bremen] | |
hal.structure.identifier | Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] [MARUM] | |
dc.contributor.author | DUPONT, Lydie | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | MALAIZE, Bruno | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | ROSSIGNOL, Linda | |
hal.structure.identifier | De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie [PACEA] | |
dc.contributor.author | SOURON, Antoine | |
hal.structure.identifier | Department of Geography [UNIVERSITé DE DURHAM] | |
dc.contributor.author | MCCLYMONT, Erin | |
hal.structure.identifier | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology [JAMSTEC] | |
dc.contributor.author | JIMENEZ-ESPEJO, Francisco | |
hal.structure.identifier | Open University of Catalonia [Barcelona] | |
dc.contributor.author | GARCÍA-COMAS, Carmen | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | EYNAUD, Frederique
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hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | MARTINEZ, Philippe | |
hal.structure.identifier | Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] [LSCE] | |
hal.structure.identifier | Modélisation du climat [CLIM] | |
dc.contributor.author | ROCHE, Didier M. | |
hal.structure.identifier | Unité Géosciences Marines [GM] | |
dc.contributor.author | JORRY, Stéphan | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | CHARLIER, Karine | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | WARY, Melanie | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | GOURVES, Pierre Yves | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | BILLY, Isabelle | |
hal.structure.identifier | Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC] | |
dc.contributor.author | GIRAUDEAU, Jacques | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-18T10:27:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-18T10:27:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/188832 | |
dc.description.abstractEn | The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution. Rare palaeoclimate records from northeastern Africa suggest progressively drier conditions or a stable hydroclimate. By contrast, records from Lake Malawi in tropical southeastern Africa reveal a trend of a progressively wetter climate over the past 1.3 million years. The climatic forcings that controlled these past hydrological changes are also a matter of debate. Some studies suggest a dominant local insolation forcing on hydrological changes whereas others infer a potential influence of sea surface temperature changes in the Indian Ocean. Here we show that the hydroclimate in southeastern Africa (20–25° S) is controlled by interplay between low-latitude insolation forcing (precession and eccentricity) and changes in ice volume at high latitudes. Our results are based on a multiple-proxy reconstruction of hydrological changes in the Limpopo River catchment, combined with a reconstruction of sea surface temperature in the southwestern Indian Ocean for the past 2.14 million years. We find a long-term aridification in the Limpopo catchment between around 1 and 0.6 million years ago, opposite to the hydroclimatic evolution suggested by records from Lake Malawi. Our results, together with evidence of wetting at Lake Malawi, imply that the rainbelt contracted toward the Equator in response to increased ice volume at high latitudes. By reducing the extent of woodland or wetlands in terrestrial ecosystems, the observed changes in the hydroclimate of southeastern Africa—both in terms of its long-term state and marked precessional variability—could have had a role in the evolution of early hominins, particularly in the extinction of Paranthropus robustus. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Using the world in ancient societies : processes and forms of appropriation of space in Long Time | en_US |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.title.en | A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa | |
dc.type | Article de revue | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41586-018-0309-6 | en_US |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société | en_US |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'environnement | en_US |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'environnement/Milieux et Changements globaux | en_US |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Anthropologie biologique | en_US |
bordeaux.journal | Nature | en_US |
bordeaux.page | 76 - 79 | en_US |
bordeaux.volume | 560 | en_US |
bordeaux.hal.laboratories | EPOC : Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux - UMR 5805 | en_US |
bordeaux.issue | 7716 | en_US |
bordeaux.institution | Université de Bordeaux | en_US |
bordeaux.institution | CNRS | en_US |
bordeaux.team | PALEO | en_US |
bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | en_US |
bordeaux.inpress | non | en_US |
bordeaux.import.source | hal | |
hal.identifier | cea-01872140 | |
hal.version | 1 | |
hal.popular | non | en_US |
hal.audience | Internationale | en_US |
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dc.rights.cc | Pas de Licence CC | en_US |
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