Control of Seasonality and Interannual to Centennial Climate Variability in the Caribbean During the Holocene—Combining Coral Records, Stalagmite Records and Climate Models

Felis, Thomas; Scholz, Denis; Lohmann, Gerrit; Giry, Cyril; Fensterer, Claudia; Wei, Wei; Mangini, Augusto

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00693-2_12

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“…In the end, these climate components are all linked to a complex system [ 67 ] and likely influenced our Chan Hol record. However, it is beyond the scope of this paper to disentangle the different components of this complex climate system.…”

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The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene

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Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding 14C dating. Here we use U-series techniques for dating a stalagmite overgrowing the pelvis of a human skeleton discovered in the submerged Chan Hol cave. The oldest closed system U/Th age comes from around 21 mm above the pelvis defining the terminus ante quem for the pelvis to 11311±370 y BP. However, the skeleton might be considerable older, probably as old as 13 ky BP as indicated by the speleothem stable isotope data. The Chan Hol individual confirms a late Pleistocene settling of Mesoamerica and represents one of the oldest human osteological remains in America.

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