Abstract The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe
and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record …

Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Abstract The Late Pleistocene Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) super-eruption (Southern Italy) is
the largest known volcanic event in the Mediterranean area. The CI tephra is widely …

The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is
supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating …

Abstract Anatomically Modern Humans are the sole survivor of a group of hominins that
inhabited our planet during the last ice age and that included, among others, Homo …

The fossil record suggests that at least two major human dispersals occurred across the
Eurasian steppe during the Late Pleistocene. Neanderthals and Modern Humans moved …

Understanding the past dynamics of large-scale atmospheric systems is crucial for our
knowledge of the palaeoclimate conditions in Europe. Southeastern Europe currently lies at …

Abstract We describe a European Acheulean site characterised by an extensive
accumulation of large cutting tools (LCT). This type of Lower Paleolithic assemblage, with …

Populations genetically related to present-day Europeans first appeared in Europe at some
point after 38,000–40,000 years ago, following a cold period of severe climatic disruption …

Loess-palaeosol sequences are valuable archives of past environmental changes. Although
regional palaeoclimatic trends and conditions in Southeastern Europe have been inferred …