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Towards a budget approach to Pleistocene terraces: preliminary studies using the River Exe in South West England, UK

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents a first approach to using a sediment budget methodology for paired terrace staircase sediments in SW England. Although a budget approach has become firmly established in Holocene fluvial studies, it has not been used in Pleistocene ...
Toms, P.S.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene volcanic complexes and Upper Neogene deformation in the south-central Andes (36°30′-38°S) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Agrio (37º51´S-70º26´W), Vilú Mallín (37º28´S-70º45´W), Trohunco (37º18´S-71º01´W), Domuyo (36º38´S-70º26´W) and Los Cardos-Centinela (37º06´S-70º52´W) volcanic complexes in Argentina are the principal Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene volcanic ...
José A. Naranjo   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Dental anomalies in Pleistocene African hippopotamuses from Olduvai Bed II

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hippopotamuses are key palaeoenvironmental indicators in African Pleistocene ecosystems due to their ecological dependence on permanent water bodies and their frequent representation in the fossil record. This study examines dental anomalies in Hippopotamus cf. gorgops from several localities in Bed II of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), dated to ca.
Darío Fidalgo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morphogenèse, climat et sociétés dans la plaine de Sfax (Tunisie) depuis le Pléistocène supérieur : l'exemple du bassin versant de l'oued Chaâl-Tarfaoui

open access: yesPhysio-Géo, 2007
This paper is a synthesis of relations between morphogenetic activity, climatic changes and human societies from Upper Pleistocene up to now, using a chronological and geomorpho-historico-archaeological approach.In wadi Chaâl-Tarfaoui catchment, Upper ...
Noômène Fehri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The fossil record stays silent: Confusions and conundrums for hominin pelvis evolution

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The evolution of the hominin pelvis is commonly modeled as a series of stages driven largely by the requirements of bipedal locomotion, reproduction, thermoregulation, and pelvic floor muscular support. These patterns are complicated by variation in canal dimensions in relationship with different changes in overall pelvic breadths. To quantify
Helen K. Kurki, Cara M. Wall‐Scheffler
wiley   +1 more source

New evidences of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the north of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
The presence of the cave lion in the Iberian Peninsula is expanding with new finds on the Cantabrian coast. This update is recorded to a total of 56 sites from 44 locations and dated from MIS 10 to the end of the Upper Pleistocene.
Pedro Castaños
doaj   +1 more source

he Stone Age site and paleontological location near the village of Comintern (at the confluence of the Kama and Volga): research results 2020

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2021
The paper features the results of archaeological and paleontological research in the left bank of the Kuibyshev reservoir, at the mouth of the Aktai River (Republic of Tatarstan).
Galimova Madina Sh.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dating of the Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry of Sardinia [PDF]

open access: yesRadiocarbon, 1989
During an excavation of 1986 and 1987, a joint team from Utrecht, Siena and the Soprintendenza di Sassari e Nuoro, found a pre-Neolithic lithic industry in Corbeddu Cave, Oliena, Sardinia, which was dated to 8000–17,000 bp. The artifact typology is different from that of the mainland of the same period.
G Klein Hofmeijer   +8 more
openaire   +1 more source

Interpreting a Legacy Fossil Assemblage Excavated From Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, Snowy River National Park, Southeastern Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we report on faunal remains recovered from a legacy archaeological excavation undertaken in the rockshelter entrance of Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), a GunaiKurnai site located on the west bank of the Snowy River, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia.
Matthew C. McDowell   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Panthera spelaea (GOLDFUSS 1810) from North-Western Croatia

open access: yesGeologia Croatica, 2010
The comparative analysis of the cave lion teeth (M1 and P4) from North-western Croatian Pleistocene sites (Veternica, Velika pecina and Vindija caves) indicated the presence of Middle and Upper Pleistocene forms of this species.
Goran Gužvica
doaj   +1 more source

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