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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori, Ileana De Giuseppe, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luca Pellegrino, Richard W. Jordan, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Emad Matin, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Hamid Fadaei, Valeria Mengacci, Fulvio Fantino   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Timescales of carbon turnover in soils with mixed crystalline mineralogies

, 2017
Organic matter–mineral associations stabilize much of the carbon (C) stored globally in soils. Metastable short-range-order (SRO) minerals such as allophane and ferrihydrite provide one mechanism for long-term stabilization of organic matter in young ...
Bern, C., Chadwick, O., Khomo, L., Trumbore, S.   +3 more
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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi, Carolina Di Patti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Matteo Cammarata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opaline chert nodules in maar lake sediments from Camp dels Ninots (La Selva Basin, NE Spain) [PDF]

, 2017
Chert nodule samples from three different well cores (CC, CP1 & CA) from the lacustrine infill of the Camp dels Ninot maar-diatreme (La Selva Basin) have been studied by means of X-ray diffraction, and optical and electron microscope technique. The chert
Anadón, Pere, Caja, M. A., Ibáñez Insa, Jordi, Martín-Martín, J., Miró, Jordi, Oms, O., Tritlla, J.   +6 more
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Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia

, 2020
The interplay between Pleistocene climatic variability and hominin adaptations to diverse terrestrial ecosystems is a key topic in human evolutionary studies.
Deng, C., Petraglia, M., Wang, F., Xie, F., Yang, S., Yue, J., Zhu, R.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Stable isotope characterization of pedogenic and lacustrine carbonates from the Chinese Tian Shan: constraints on the Mesozoic - Lower Cenozoic palaeo-environmental evolution [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceIn the Mesozoic–Cenozoic continental deposits of the Tian Shan area, two main levels containing pedogenic carbonates have been identified on both the southern and northern foothills of the range: one in the Upper Jurassic series and
Barrier, Laurie, Boulvais, Philippe, Bourquin, Sylvie, Fu, B., Heilbronn, Gloria, Jia, Y, Jolivet, Marc, Marchand, E, Robin, Cécile   +8 more
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Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trace element accumulation in Mn—Fe—oxide nodules of a planosolic horizon.

, 2005
The aim of this work was to determine the importance of nodule formation on the dynamics of major and trace elements (TEs) along a Planosol toposequence developed in metamorphic parent material at La Châtre (Massif Central, France).
Branchut, Stéphane, Clozel, Blandine, Cornu, Sophie, Deschatrettes, Valérie, Hardy, Michel, Le Forestier, Lydie, Salvador-Blanes, Sébastien   +6 more
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Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site

Boreas, EarlyView.
The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau, Bernd Wagner, Uwe Kirscher, Maria Schindler, Charlotte Zachow, Johannes Schmidt, Niklas Leicher, Giovanni Muttoni, Serena Perini, Vangelis Tourloukis, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati, Annett Junginger   +13 more
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Similarities and differences in the dolomitization history of two coeval Middle Triassic carbonate platforms, Balaton Highland, Hungary [PDF]

, 2014
Dolomitization of platform carbonates is commonly the result of multiphase processes. Documentation of the complex dolomitization history is difficult if completely dolomitized sections are studied.
A Spadafora, AG Fischer, AM Alonso-Zarza, AM Alonso-Zarza, AM Alonso-Zarza, B Jones, C Spötl, C Spötl, C Vasconcelos, Ch Korte, D Chen, D Wright, DA Budd, DF Sibley, DT Wright, FF Whitaker, FH Nader, GD Jones, HS Chafetz, J Haas, J Haas, J Haas, J Haas, J Haas, J Rosenbaum, JA McKenzie, JAD Dickson, János Haas, K Bazargani-Guiliani, M Sánchez-Román, Orsolya Győri, PA Scholle, PW Choquette, Q Fu, R Cuia Di, R Riding, R Riding, SJ Mazzullo, Sándor Kele, T Budai, T Budai, T Budai, T Budai, T Budai, Tamás Budai, TRR Bontognali, TRR Bontognali   +46 more
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