In southern France, the analysis of fossil dung layers from caves and shelters occupied by
the first Neolithic farmers has provided a wealth of information about the lives of shepherds …

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean.
Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca …

Aranbaltza is an archaeological complex formed by at least three open-air sites. Between
2014 and 2015 a test excavation carried out in Aranbaltza III revealed the presence of a …

Mountain sites are usually seen as sites connected to pastoral or transhumant activities. This
paper proposes an alternative interpretation for Neolithic mountain sites found in the …

Layer taphonomy is one of the major questions in the archaeological research of lakeshore
settlements. How fast did these deposits develop? Were they exposed to periodic droughts …

The Neolithic period in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula has received the attention of
many archaeologists during the XXth and XXIst centuries, from the earliest humanists like …

Abstract Background The European yew Taxus baccata L. is a conifer tree species for which
the autochthonous populations have become rare and endangered in many European …

Despite the current growing number of studies that focus on macrobotanical remains from
Middle Palaeolithic contexts, plant use among hunter-gatherer societies remains unknown …

Ecosystem restoration is regarded as one of the most cost-effective ways of mitigating the
effects of the ongoing climate-and anthropogenic changes and slow or revert the loss of …

This paper assesses the landscape and management of firewood resources during the
Holocene at La Garrotxa (Girona, NE Iberia), a middle mountain region (400-1600 m asl) …