Paleoenvironmental reconstructions on a (supra-) regional scale have gained attention in
Quaternary sciences during the last decades. In terrestrial realms, loess deposits and …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

Archaeological sites are not distributed evenly throughout the landscape. For the
Palaeolithic record, signals derived from the inhomogeneous spatial patterns are used to …

Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships
between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we …

Evidence that during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glaciers extended well into the
piedmont plains is still identifiable in the alpine foreland as a system of well-preserved …

Before the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM,∼ 16.5 ka ago) 1 set in motion major
shifts in human culture and population structure, 2 a consistent change in lithic technology …

Protoaurignacian foragers relied heavily on the production and use of bladelets. Techno-
typological studies of these implements have provided insights into crucial aspects of …

This paper presents the first attempt to establish a Mid and Late Upper Palaeolithic absolute
chronology of the Adriatic basin, including both eastern and western Adriatic coasts and …

In the last few years several studies have reassessed the attraction and the role of small
game in the subsistence economy of hunter-gatherers across Europe and the …

Abstract The Pleistocene-Holocene transition reveals a short and abrupt climatic sequence
from the warming conditions of the Greenland Interstadial-1 (GI-1), followed by the …