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Overview

Avner Ayalon is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities. Within these broad areas, their work delves into multiple subfields including Archeology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Anthropology.

Their research topics cover a range of geological and archaeological themes. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology

Ayalon has published in several reputable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geology
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ayalon highlight research on paleoclimate, atmospheric conditions, and archaeological context with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and other regions. Some notable recent publications are:

  • "Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka" (2021) in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Holocene wet episodes recorded by magnetic minerals in stalagmites from Soreq Cave, Israel" (2021) in Geology
  • "Weakened AMOC related to cooling and atmospheric circulation shifts in the last interglacial Eastern Mediterranean" (2023) in Nature Communications
  • "A new MIS 5 to MIS 2 speleothem record from Sandkraal Cave on the South African Cape south coast" (2024) in Quaternary Research

In collaboration, Ayalon frequently works with several co-authors, with whom they have produced multiple publications. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Alan Matthews
  • Tami Zilberman
  • Miryam Bar-Matthews
  • Hubert Vonhof

Best Publications

  • Sea-land oxygen isotopic relationships from planktonic foraminifera and speleothems in the Eastern Mediterranean region and their implication for paleorainfall during interglacial intervals

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Mabs Gilmour;Alan Matthews

  • The Eastern Mediterranean paleoclimate as a reflection of regional events: Soreq cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman;Gerald J Wasserburg

  • Late Quaternary Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotope Analysis of Speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman

  • Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

    Katharine Grant;Eelco Rohling;Eelco Rohling;M Bar-Matthews;A Ayalon

  • The earliest modern humans outside Africa

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Gerhard W. Weber;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam;Mathieu Duval

  • Timing and hydrological conditions of Sapropel events in the Eastern Mediterranean, as evident from speleothems, Soreq cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman

  • Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel.

    Panagiotis Karkanas;Ruth Shahack-Gross;Avner Ayalon;Mira Bar-Matthews

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope study of the active water-carbonate system in a karstic Mediterranean cave: Implications for paleoclimate research in semiarid regions

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews;Eytan Sass

  • Mid-Holocene climate variations revealed by high-resolution speleothem records from Soreq Cave, Israel and their correlation with cultural changes

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon

  • Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry

    Hagit P. Affek;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Geochemical and boron, strontium, and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of the salinity in groundwater from the Mediterranean Coast of Israel

    Avner Vengosh;Arthur J. Spivack;Yohanan Artzi;Avner Ayalon

  • Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Ofer Marder;Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews

  • Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon;A. Matthews

  • Middle to Late Holocene (6,500 Yr. Period) Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotopic Composition of Speleothems from Soreq Cave, Israel

    Mira Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aharon Kaufman

  • A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Curtis W. Marean;Zenobia Jacobs;Panagiotis Karkanas

  • Rainfall-recharge relationships within a karstic terrain in the Eastern Mediterranean semi-arid region, Israel: δ 18O and δD characteristics

    Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Eytan Sass

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Bettina Schilman

  • Climatic variability during the last ∼90 ka of the southern and northern Levantine Basin as evident from marine records and speleothems

    Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Dan Shriki;Elina Kolosovsky

  • Climate deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean as revealed by ion microprobe analysis of a speleothem that grew from 2.2 to 0.9 ka in Soreq Cave, Israel.

    Ian J. Orland;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Noriko T. Kita;Avner Ayalon

  • Constraints on hydrological and paleotemperature variations in the Eastern Mediterranean region in the last 140ka given by the δD values of speleothem fluid inclusions

    Siobhan McGarry;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Alan Matthews;Anton Vaks

  • Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

    Anton Vaks;Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Alan Matthews;Avner Ayalon

Frequent Co-Authors

Miryam Bar-Matthews
Miryam Bar-Matthews Geological Survey of Israel
Amos Frumkin
Amos Frumkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Ahuva Almogi-Labin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elisabetta Boaretto
Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute of Science
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Curtis W. Marean
Curtis W. Marean Arizona State University
Andy I.R. Herries
Andy I.R. Herries La Trobe University
Hagit P. Affek
Hagit P. Affek Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rivka Amit
Rivka Amit Geological Survey of Israel

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