During the last twenty years, several technical developments have considerably intensified
the use of numerical dating methods for the Quaternary. The study of fluvial archives has …

This chapter reviews various types of spatial data used for geomorphological mapping, with
reference to their basic characteristics, historical background and some examples of …

The emergence of Portugal's Muge Mesolithic, with its characteristic shell middens and
human burials, is widely seen as a response to the formation of a highly diverse terrestrial …

Shellmound formation processes are greatly influenced by human inputs associated with an
intensive exploitation of marine and estuarine resources. The complex stratigraphy of …

Evidence for the first Neolithic population in central Portugal dates to as early as c. 7600 cal
BP. These first farmers were exogenous groups arriving to the Atlantic coast from the …

Along the Algarve coast, multi-proxy investigations of four estuaries detail the Holocene
landscape evolution through high-resolution pollen and sediment analyses. This approach …

We describe a new pollen and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) record with sub-centennial
to centennial resolution from a well-dated sediment core (D13882) obtained from the Atlantic …

Open‐air sites represent a fundamental proxy of the Early Holocene adaptive systems in the
Iberian Peninsula. However, its research potential for the study of human–environmental …

Despite the multiple constraints of using shell mounds for building relative-sea-level (RSL)
curves, one of the premises behind this use is still valid in modern archaeological research …

Pollen and NPP analysis performed on the sedimentary deposits accumulated in the inter-
tidal banks of the Tagus Estuary allow for the reconstruction of vegetation history and …