Chronology of the cave interior sediments at Gran Dolina archaeological site, Atapuerca (Spain)

JM Parés, C Álvarez, M Sier, D Moreno, M Duval… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The so-called “Gran Dolina site”(Atapuerca mountain range, N Spain) is a karstic
cavity filled by sediments during the Pleistocene, some of which contain a rich ensemble of …

The dawn of the Late Villafranchian: Paleoenvironment and age of the Pantalla paleontological site (Italy; Early Pleistocene)

M Cherin, G Basilici, M Duval, Q Shao, MJ Sier… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochronology is the most widely used method for organizing the successions of continental
vertebrate faunas in geological time and for allowing the correlation of continental deposits …

1.9-million-and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

M Sahnouni, JM Parés, M Duval, I Cáceres… - Science, 2018 - science.org
East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and
hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to~ 2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The~ 1.8-million …

First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

E Méndez-Quintas, M Santonja, A Pérez-González… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract We describe a European Acheulean site characterised by an extensive
accumulation of large cutting tools (LCT). This type of Lower Paleolithic assemblage, with …

New chronological constraints for the lowermost stratigraphic unit of Atapuerca Gran Dolina (Burgos, N Spain)

M Duval, LJ Arnold, M Demuro, JM Parés… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the results of a combined Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and Luminescence
dating study for the lowermost stratigraphic unit (TD1) of the palaeoanthropological site of …

A marine isotope stage 11 coastal Acheulian workshop with associated wood at Amanzi Springs Area 1, South Africa

AIR Herries, LJ Arnold, G Boschian, AF Blackwood… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Amanzi Springs is a series of inactive thermal springs located near Kariega in the Eastern
Cape of South Africa. Excavations in the 1960s exposed rare, stratified Acheulian-bearing …

[HTML][HTML] The first direct ESR dating of a hominin tooth from Atapuerca Gran Dolina TD-6 (Spain) supports the antiquity of Homo antecessor

M Duval, R Grün, JM Parés, L Martín-Francés… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study reports the results of the first direct Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating
study of Homo antecessor, the oldest known hominin species identified in Western Europe …

Re-examining the earliest evidence of human presence in western Europe: New dating results from Pirro Nord (Italy)

M Duval, LJ Arnold, JJ Bahain, JM Parés… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present the results of the first dating study of site P13 at Pirro Nord, Italy, which
documents some of the earliest evidence for hominin presence in western Europe. Our multi …

Examining sediment infill dynamics at Naracoorte cave megafauna sites using multiple luminescence dating signals

LJ Arnold, M Demuro, R Power, M Duval… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Relatively little is known about the long-term sediment accumulation dynamics of Naracoorte
Cave Complex (NCC) solution pipe cavities, and many of the megafauna-bearing infill …

Quartz natural and laboratory ESR dose response curves: A first attempt from Chinese loess

S Tsukamoto, H Long, M Richter, Y Li, GE King… - Radiation …, 2018 - Elsevier
The natural electron spin resonance (ESR) dose response curve (DRC) of the Al and Ti
centres was constructed for the first time using sand-sized quartz samples from Luochuan …