Very excited to see what they find as they compare these results (and others!) with the #archaeology, #zoorchaeology and #paleobotanical data around #BlombosCave

The #PalaeoAgulhasPlain is fascinating because on one hand you have a new swath of huge exposed land with a very different landscape and fauna than today!

As an example here is an image reconstructing some ideas of what the #LateGlacialMaximum (~20,000 years ago) Palaeo-Agulhas Plain might have looked like from Marean et al. 2020

The difference in land exposure of the South African coastline at 70,000 years greatly impacted local climate conditions #PalaeoAgulhasPlain

Wanted to share this really fascinating paper by fellow #SapienCE researchers highlighting the importance of local and regional #ClimateModels

They found around #BlombosCave
Summers were warmer, winters were colder
There was relatively less rainfall
The site was further from the ocean

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107893