Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Timing of massive 'Fleuve Manche'discharges over the last 350 kyr: insights into the European ice-sheet oscillations and the European drainage network from MIS 10 …

S Toucanne, S Zaragosi, JF Bourillet, M Cremer… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Continuous high-resolution mass accumulation rates (MAR) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
measurements from marine sediment records in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic) have …

Orbital-and sub-orbital-scale climate impacts on vegetation of the western Mediterranean basin over the last 48,000 yr

WJ Fletcher, MFS Goñi - Quaternary Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
High-resolution pollen analysis of Alborán Sea core MD95-2043 provides a 48-ka
continuous vegetation record that can be directly correlated with sea surface and deep …

Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula

P González-Sampériz, SAG Leroy, JS Carrión… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2010 - Elsevier
A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula
shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed …

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

E Zeller, A Timmermann, KS Yun, P Raia, K Stein… - Science, 2023 - science.org
To investigate the role of vegetation and ecosystem diversity on hominin adaptation and
migration, we identify past human habitat preferences over time using a transient 3-million …

Experimental methods for the Palaeolithic dry distillation of birch bark: implications for the origin and development of Neandertal adhesive technology

PRB Kozowyk, M Soressi, D Pomstra… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The destructive distillation of birch bark to produce tar has recently featured in debates about
the technological and cognitive abilities of Neandertals and modern humans. The abilities to …

A coastal reservoir of biodiversity for Upper Pleistocene human populations: palaeoecological investigations in Gorham's Cave (Gibraltar) in the context of the Iberian …

JS Carrión, C Finlayson, S Fernández… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Palaeobotanical (pollen, charcoal) data from Gorham's Cave reveals a diversified landscape
in the Gibraltar region during the Middle (c. 32 560–23 780year BP) and Upper Palaeolithic …

Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

HM Hu, G Marino, C Pérez-Mejías, C Spötl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial
termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation …

The emergence of Neanderthal technical behavior: new evidence from Orgnac 3 (Level 1, MIS 8), southeastern France

MH Moncel, AM Moigne, Y Sam… - Current …, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
The archaeological sequence from the Orgnac 3 site presents the opportunity to observe
behavioral aspects characterizing the beginnings of the main Neanderthal technological …

A 249 kyr stack of eight loess grain size records from northern China documenting millennial‐scale climate variability

S Yang, Z Ding - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In order to construct a stacked climatic record of millennial‐scale variability for northern
China, grain size was measured for 12,330 samples from eight thick loess sections …