[HTML][HTML] Human-environmental interactions in Mediterranean climate regions from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

T Rick, MÁC Ontiveros, A Jerardino, A Mariotti… - Anthropocene, 2020 - Elsevier
From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

Taguatagua 1: New insights into the late Pleistocene fauna, paleoenvironment, and human subsistence in a unique lacustrine context in central Chile

R Labarca, E González-Guarda… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Laguna de Tagua Tagua has yielded two important late Pleistocene
archaeological sites, Taguatagua 1 and Taguatagua 2, in which a clear early human …

The Great American Biotic Interchange revisited: a new perspective from the stable isotope record of Argentine Pampas fossil mammals

L Domingo, RL Tomassini, CI Montalvo… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
This study aims at assessing resource and habitat use, niche occupation and trophic
interactions from a stable isotope perspective on fossil mammals from the Argentine Pampas …

Evaluation of the impact of the intensive exploitation of groundwater and the mega-drought based on the hydrochemical and isotopic composition of the waters of the …

C Herrera, J Urrutia, C Gamboa, X Salgado… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A hydrogeochemical and isotopic study has been carried out to understand the
hydrogeological functioning of a small alluvial aquifer in central Chile in a context of mega …

Annual isotopic diet (δ13C, δ18O) of Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888) from Brazilian intertropical region

MAT Dantas, A Liparini, L Asevedo… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Notiomastodon platensis was an endemic South American proboscidean, which could reach
about six tons and had a mixed feeder diet with predominance of C 4 grasses in Brazilian …

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

JC Svenning, RT Lemoine, J Bergman… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

[HTML][HTML] Pliocene-Early Pleistocene continental climate and vegetation in Europe based on stable isotope compositions of mammal tooth enamel

P Szabó, J Kovács, L Kocsis, T Vennemann… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing need for paleoclimate records from continental settings to better
understand the climatic changes during critical periods such as the Pliocene and Early …

Vertebral lesions in Notiomastodon platensis, Gomphotheriidae, from Anolaima, Colombia

CM Zorro-Luján, LF Noè, M Gómez-Pérez… - Quaternary …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Six vertebrae (one cervical, three articulated thoracic, and two lumbar) and an incomplete
thoracic neural spine from a new late Pleistocene site at Anolaima, Cundinamarca …

Feeding traits and dietary variation in Pleistocene proboscideans: A tooth microwear review

F Rivals, GM Semprebon, AM Lister - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Microwear data were analysed to study dietary traits in Elephantidae, Mammutidae, and
Gomphotheriidae from Plio-Pleistocene localities from Europe and North America and …

Palynological analysis of dental calculus from Pleistocene proboscideans of southern Brazil: a new approach for paleodiet and paleoenvironmental reconstructions

L Asevedo, C D'Apolito, SY Misumi… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
The proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis is widely recognized in the Pleistocene of
Brazil, but direct evidence for its feeding behavior is scant. In this paper, we report …