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Lebanon: 400,000 Years of Climate and Landscape History Rediscovered

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An international research team led by Dr. Gabriele Russo of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has re-examined historical fossil collections from Lebanon using modern methodology. The results, published today in two complementary studies in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, show that the Levant served as an important corridor for animals and various human lineages during t…

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Scientists have re-examined historical finds from what is now Lebanon and discovered something surprising. It turns out that 400,000 years ago, this region may have been a "paradise on Earth" for early humans and animals, significantly different from the southern Levant.

The Senckenberg Center and the University of Tübingen reconstruct 400,000 years of climate and fauna in Lebanon and confirm the Levant corridor. La entrada 400,000 years of climate and fauna are rebuilt in Lebanon: The key hominin corridor aparece primero en Merca2.

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Historical collections of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory at Saint Joseph University in Beirut shed light on the great diversity of environmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Pleistocene

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uni-tuebingen.de broke the news on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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