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Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2015 Based on stable isotope analyses of worldwide reference curves, it has long been apparent that duration, intensity and climatic conditions of Pleistocene interglacial periods were significantly diverse.
György Varga
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Middle and Late Pleistocene environmental history of the Marsworth area, south-central England [PDF]
, 2014 To elucidate the Middle and Late Pleistocene environmental history of south-central England, we report the stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeoecology and geochronology of some deposits near the foot of the Chiltern Hills scarp at Marsworth ...
Adamiec +137 more
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Early Pliocene Varanus (Squamata, Varanidae) remains from Megalo Emvolon, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.The article describes new cranial and postcranial varanid material from Megalo Emvolon Lower Pliocene vertebrate fossil site near Thessaloniki. The fossils, likely representing a single individual, are referred to Varanus cf. marathonensis. Abstract This study describes new fossil varanid material from a recently discovered fossil spot (MVL site) at ...
Chara Drakopoulou +3 more
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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates [PDF]
, 2010 Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the ...
B. H. Passey +13 more
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The Pacific Archaeology Radiocarbon Database
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the Pacific Archaeology Radiocarbon Database (PARD), which includes radiocarbon data from archaeological sites excavated in an area commonly described as Near and Remote Oceania. The collated 14C database is available using ArcGIS Online, an online geospatial system with searchable fields and locational navigation.
Simon H. Bickler +6 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rings made on marine shell are a conspicuous artefact form found throughout cultural sequences for much of the Pacific over millennia. Despite their importance in both recent and ancient times, in‐depth consideration of the manufacturing processes involved in shell ring production are limited.
Michelle C. Langley +2 more
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, 2018 It is estimated that the global average of Earth’s surface temperature was about 8°C higher than today when the Cenozoic Era started about 66 Ma ago (1 Ma = 1 million years) (Zachos et al. 2001; Zachos et al. 2008). As shown in Chapter 1 (Figure 1.1), the history of the Cenozoic is rather shaky.
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A new record of fossil wood of Vochysiaceae from the Upper Pleistocene (Arroyo Feliciano Formation), Argentina, South America [PDF]
, 2015 A new species of Qualeoxylon Suguio & Mussa is described from the Late Pleistocene Arroyo Feliciano Formation of the Gualeguay Basin on eastern Argentina.
Brea, Mariana, Moya, Eliana Vanesa
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Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics ...
Richard Cosgrove +9 more
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