Cross-over Immunoelectrophoresis sheds light on Levantine hominin subsistence during the Middle Pleistocene
8 August 2016
Excavations at Shishan Marsh, a former desert oasis in Azraq, northeast Jordan, reveal a unique ecosystem and provide direct family-specific protein residue evidence of hominin adaptations in an increasingly arid environment approximately 250,000 years ago.
![A generalized stratigraphy associated with Middle Pleistocene occupations at SM-1. A generalized stratigraphy associated with Middle Pleistocene occupations at SM-1.](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-evolution/sites/human_evolution/files/styles/large_image/public/Azraq_Oasis_Stratigraphic_Sequence.jpg?itok=xI6bAxeg)
Middle Pleistocene subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein residue and other proxies
A. Nowell, C. Walker, C.E. Cordova, C.J.H. Ames, J.T. Pokines, D. Stueber, R. DeWitt, A.S.A. al-Souliman
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.013