Holocene climate variability, vegetation dynamics and fire regime in the central Pyrenees: the Basa de la Mora sequence (NE Spain)

A Pérez-Sanz, P González-Sampériz, A Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
High resolution multiproxy data (pollen, sedimentology, geochemistry, chironomids and
charcoal) from the Basa de la Mora (BSM) lake sequence (42° 32′ N, 0° 19′ E, 1914 m …

Precipitation δ18O paced the seasonal δ18O variations of terrestrial snail body water and shells in the East Asian monsoon region

X Zong, J Dong, Y Song, H Yan, M Xing, W Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Terrestrial snails are sensitive to climate changes and their shell's oxygen isotope
composition (δ 18 O shell) is widely used in studies of paleoclimate reconstructions …

The mesolithic–neolithic transition in southern Iberia

MC Sánchez, FJJ Espejo, MDS Vallejo… - Quaternary …, 2012 - cambridge.org
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and
Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the …

Coastal pine-oak glacial refugia in the Mediterranean basin: A biogeographic approach based on charcoal analysis and spatial modelling

G Di Pasquale, A Saracino, L Bosso, D Russo… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
During the glacial episodes of the Quaternary, European forests were restricted to small
favourable spots, namely refugia, acting as biodiversity reservoirs. the Iberian, Italian and …

Hydrological changes during the Roman Climatic Optimum in northern Tuscany (Central Italy) as evidenced by speleothem records and archaeological data

M Bini, G Zanchetta, E Regattieri, I Isola… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Study of the climate in the Mediterranean basin during different historical periods has taken
on a particular importance, particularly regarding its role (together with other factors) in the …

Clumped and stable isotopes of land snail shells on the Chinese Loess Plateau and their climatic implications

J Dong, J Eiler, Z An, N Wu, W Liu, X Li, N Kitchen… - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
We report stable (δ 13 C shell, δ 18 O shell) and clumped isotope (Δ 47) compositions of
modern and last glacial fossil snail shell carbonates from the Luochuan and Weinan …

Molluscs in Archaeology: methods, approaches and applications

MJ Allen - 2017 - torrossa.com
Whilst teaching environmental archaeology and geoarchaeology to students and amateur
archaeologists, and conducting workshops for professional archaeologists/colleagues on …

Oxygen isotope signatures from land snail (Helix melanostoma) shells and body fluid: Proxies for reconstructing Mediterranean and North African rainfall

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, G Barker, TC O'Connell - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show that oxygen isotope ratios from the shell carbonate of the land snail
Helix melanostoma reflect local rainfall parameters. Stable oxygen isotopes were measured …

A late Pleistocene refugium in Mediterranean North Africa? Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotope analyses of land snail shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, TC O'Connell… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological record of North Africa is key to
understanding the emergence of anatomically modern humans into West Asia and Europe …

Mesolithic in central–southern Italy: Overview of lithic productions

DL Vetro, F Martini - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
Drawing upon the already well-known archaeological record and on recent data, we present
a general overview of Mesolithic stone production in Central–Southern Italy and its main …