The cave site of Lapa do Picareiro, Portugal contains a deep (~ 10 m) sedimentary
sequence representing much of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, with abundant animal …

Stratified deposits at Gruta da Oliveira (35-70 ka BP), Cueva Antón (35-70 ka BP) and
Abrigo de la Quebrada (> 40 ka BP) provided the wood charcoal for the analysis, the first …

Abstract Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) is well represented in palynological studies of North
Atlantic marine cores but in only a handful of archeological sequences from the adjacent …

The effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) fluctuation on Late Pleistocene hunter‐gatherers'
settlement and subsistence systems in the southern Alps are poorly known. This is primarily …

Stone tools occur quite frequently in sediment and soil thin sections, yet their
micromorphological characteristics have not been explicitly defined in the literature. The aim …

Humans have inhabited caves and rock shelters since the Palaeolithic for more than 2
million years. Interestingly, geoarchaeological investigations of cave deposits have not only …

Identifying the causes of visible changes in the archaeological record is one of the major
goals of archaeological and anthropological research. Environmental shifts have been often …

Gruta da Oliveira features ac. 13 m-thick infilling that includes ac. 6.5 m-thick archaeological
deposit (the “Middle Palaeolithic sequence” complex), which Bayesian modelling of …

Monte Fenera is a mostly carbonate hill at the southern border of the Western Alps. It hosts
several archaeological sites, among them karstic caves bearing evidence of Palaeolithic …

Coastal wetlands are ecotone settings that offer diverse sets of resources for human
exploitation, yet evidence for Pleistocene occupation rarely preserves due to recent …