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A humid early Holocene in Yemen interpreted from palaeoecology and taxonomy of freshwater ostracods
Munef Mohammed
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
Peter Frenzel
Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Burgweg 11,
07749 Jena, Germany
Dietmar Keyser
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Zoologisches Institut, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg,
Germany
Fadhl Hussain
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
Abdulkareem Abood
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
Abdulmajed Sha'af
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
Sadham Alzara'e
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
Sakher Alammari
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen
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Short summary
With the help of remnants of small crustaceans that fossilize easily and live only in different types of freshwater, we could verify the fact that the Holocene was wetter than today; this also influenced the human population at that time. Due to the higher moisture, farming and husbandry was probably possible. We could also clarify some of the changes in time in these very fertile areas. This is also a help for the archaeologists who have recently carried out many excavations in the same area.
With the help of remnants of small crustaceans that fossilize easily and live only in different...
