Combined Zonation of the African-Levantine-Caucasian Areal of Ancient Hominin: Review and Integrated Analysis of Paleogeographical, Stratigraphic and Geophysical-Geodynamical Dataстатья
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Аннотация:The origin of the man at the Earth is directly associated with the determination of
directions of the flow distribution of the ancient man migration to adjacent territories. In such studies traditionally mainly landscape and climatological changes are considered. We
suggest that along with the above factors, regional tectonic-geodynamic factors played a
dominant role in the character of migration. The considered African-Levantine-Caucasian
region is one of the most complex regions of the world, where collisional and spreading
processes of geodynamics converge. First is determined an essential influence of the
Akchagylian hydrospheric maximum (about 200 m above the mean sea level) limiting the
ancient men migration from Africa to Eurasia. We propose that the Levantine Corridor
emerged after the end of the Akchagylian transgression and landscape forming in the
Eastern Mediterranean. This corridor location was formed by the movements between the
Dead Sea Transform and the boundary of the carbonate platform of the Mesozoic Terrane
Belt. Further landscape evolution was largely determined by the geodynamic behavior of
the deep mantle rotating structure occurring below the central part of the region under
study. All the mentioned events around and in the Levantine Corridor have been studied in
detail on the basis of the combined geodynamic, paleogeographic, and paleomagnetic
analyzes performed in northern Israel (Carmel uplift and Galilee plateau). Careful studies
of the Evron quarry geological section indicate that it is a unique one for the dating of the marine and continental archaeological sequences and sheds light on the movement of the ancient man along the Levantine Corridor.