Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

Abstract The Lesser Caucasus, situated between Asia and Europe, has long been
recognised as a key region for the study of human evolution in terms of the timing and routes …

Middle Paleolithic lithic and faunal assemblages throughout Eurasia reflect short-term
Neanderthal occupations, which suggest high group mobility. However, the timing of these …

The dissection of archaeological palimpsests has become a crucial process for achieving a
diachronic understanding of the history of human groups. However, its widespread …

The chemical diagenesis and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Palaeolithic
sequence of Theopetra Cave have been studied extensively, but little information is …

Abstract Marine Isotope Stage 3 is considered a period with several climate oscillations that
drove the environments to rapid changes. To understand how these stadial-interstadial …

Abstract El Salt (Middle Palaeolithic; Alcoi, Spain) is a key site for understanding the
disappearance of Neanderthals in the eastern Iberian Peninsula, a process that is observed …

Leaf waxes have been assumed to be the dominant source of wax delivered to sediment.
However, wooden branches and twigs have not been widely considered in this context and …

The relationship between hunter-gatherer group mobility and lithic raw material procurement
strategies is central to the study of Neanderthal productive behaviours. In this framework …

This study aims to characterize forest landscapes during the Late Middle Paleolithic (LMP),
Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) and Magdalenian of the NE Iberian Upper Pleistocene. In this …