Climatic and environmental changes have been commonly proposed as driving factors
behind the decline of Neanderthals in Europe. The Cantabrian region, in northern Iberia, is a …

Reconstructing the conditions and circumstances under which the human lineage evolved is
of great interest to those disciplines related to human evolution, especially in fields such as …

It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources; …

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

Healthy coupling of the food-water-land-ecosystem (FWLE) nexus is the basis for achieving
sustainable development (SD), and FWLE in drylands is frontier scientific issues in the study …

Documenting the subsistence strategies developed by early modern humans is relevant for
understanding the success of their dispersal throughout Eurasia. Today, we know that there …

The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia
during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically …

The Oldowan lithic industry represents the earliest known evidence of efficiently and
expeditiously produced flake stone tools (Toth, 1985; Braun et al., 2019; Reti, 2016; Stout et …

The settlement of cold and arid environments by Pleistocene hunter-gatherers has been a
heated topic in Paleolithic Archaeology and the Quaternary Sciences for years. In the Iberian …

A fundamental goal of archaeologists is to infer the behaviour of past humans from the
attributes of the artefacts they left behind. The archaeological record is, however, fragmented …