Yanjun Cai, Inez Fung, R. Lawrence Edwards, Zhisheng An et al.
A speleothem δ(18)O record from Xiaobailong cave in southwest China characterizes changes in summer monsoon precipitation in Northeastern India, the Himalayan foothills, Bangladesh, and northern Indochina over the last 252 kyr. This record is dominated by 23-kyr precessional cycles punctuated by pro...
Oliver Heiri, Stephen J. Brooks, H. Renssen, Alan Bedford et al.
Comparisons of climate model hindcasts with independent proxy data are essential for assessing model performance in non-analogue situations. However, standardized palaeoclimate data sets for assessing the spatial pattern of past climatic change across continents are lacking for some of the most dyna...
Deborah M. Leigh, Charles B. van Rees, Katie L. Millette, Martin F. Breed et al.
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of intraspecific genetic variation. Facilitated by advances in evolutionary biology, technology, data infrastructure, statist...
David Livingstone
The role of climatic change in determining the shape of human evolution, a theme that came to prominence during the early years of the twentieth century, has resurfaced with renewed vigor. The author examines the rise and resurgence of the modern history of the idea that hominid evolutionary pathway...
Octavian Catuneanu, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Michael D. Blum, Robert W. Dalrymple et al.
Sequence stratigraphy emphasizes changes in stratal stacking patterns in response to varying accommodation and sediment supply through time. Certain surfaces are designated as sequence or systems tract boundaries to facilitate the construction of realistic and meaningful palaeogeographic interpretat...
Ron K. Pickerill, Guy M. Narbonne
Deep‐water strata of the Lower Ordovician of the Lévis Formation (Middle Cambrian‐lower Middle Ordovician) exposed in and around the Lévis‐Lauzon area of southern Québec, eastern Canada, contain a well preserved ichnofauna dominated by simple horizontal burrows of Planolites Nicholson, Alcyonidiopsi...
Parth R. Chauhan
Abstract This broad overview highlights the Indian subcontinent as an important and exciting source of new discoveries regarding Lower Paleolithic hominins and their biological and behavioral evolution. Broadly situated in the center of the Old World, the region arbitrarily encompasses Pakistan, Ind...
César Laplana, Hugues‐Alexandre Blain, Paloma Sevilla, Juan Luís Arsuaga et al.
La Haute Vallée du Lozoya au Centre de l’Espagne est actuellement l’un des environnements naturels le plus diversifié en ce qui concerne les petits vertébrés terrestres dans la péninsule Ibérique, avec 13 espèces d’amphibiens, 17 de reptiles et 26 de micromammifères. Les phénomènes de karstification...
Towhida Rashid
Ryan Rabett, Graeme Barker, Chris Hunt, Toru Naruse et al.
Tràng An is a Vietnamese government supported cultural and ecological park development covering 2,500 hectares that is centred on an isolated massif on the southern edge of the Song Hong delta in Ninh Bình Province, north Vietnam (Fig. 1). The archaeological investigation of Tràng An is being led jo...
Iván Ramírez‐Pedraza, Carlos Tornero, Hassan Aouraghe, Florent Rivals et al.
The earliest archaeological evidence from northern Africa dates to ca. 2.44 Ma. Nevertheless, the palaeoenvironmental setting of hominins living in this part of the continent at the Plio-Pleistocene transition remains poorly documented, particularly in comparison to eastern and southern Africa. The ...
Bingjue Li, Shengmin Zhou, Andrew P. Murray, Gérard Subsol
Morphometrics is a multivariate technique for shape analysis widely employed in biological, medical, and paleoanthropological applications. Commonly used morphometric methods require analyzing a huge amount of variables for problems involving a large number of specimens or complex shapes. Moreover, ...
Illora Sen, Dipak Kumar Parua, Subir Bera, Md. Sultan-Ul-Islam et al.
J.L. Bates, Keith D. Morrison, Marco Madella, Alex Hill et al.
While it is clear that current human impact on the earth system is unprecedented in scope and scale, much less is known about the long-term histories of human land use and their effects on vegetation, carbon cycling, and other factors relevant to climate change. Current debates over the possible imp...
Emmanuel Baudouin
Si l’origine des premières communautés sédentaires du Caucase à la fin du 7e millénaire est toujours débattue, une reprise récente des données archéologiques sur les techniques architecturales tend à montrer que les relations culturelles avec la Mésopotamie sont complexes. L’évolution de la techniqu...