Large-scale fluctuations in global climate and resulting changes in ecology had a profound
effect on human evolution and dispersal. Though hominin remains are scarce, studies …

The vegetation and the climatic context in which the first hominins entered and dispersed in
Europe during the Early Pleistocene are reconstructed, using literature review and a new …

Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

The Orce region has one of the best late Pliocene and early Pleistocene continental
paleobiological records of Europe. It is situated in the northeastern sector of the …

European continental mammal biochronology has been developed in Italy since the
pioneering work of Augusto Azzaroli. The Villafranchian is a Mammal Age, a …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

The Homo erectus cranium from Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province is the
oldest fossil hominin specimen from North China. It was found in 1964 in a layer below the …

Recent discoveries of evidence for hominin activity in Britain before MIS 13 challenge
previous understanding of the nature of the earliest colonization of NW Europe. Insights into …

The present study aims at investigating several key aspects of ESR dose reconstruction of
quartz grains based on the analysis of the Ti-center:(i) the evaluation of the ESR intensity,(ii) …

The Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula is currently a focus of intense paleontological,
archaeological and geological research. To a large extent, these inquiries are intended to …