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Quaternary, Volume 1, Issue 3

December 2018 - 14 articles

Cover Story: Rivers are central to landscape change and the Anthropocene because many human activities focused along waterways. The use of fire and gathering of plants and aquatic resources probably had little effect on rivers until crop cultivation intensified about 15,000 years ago in the Near East. Many plants and animals were domesticated worldwide after 10,700 years ago, leading locally within a millennium to organized agriculture with widespread legacy sediments, the first dams and irrigation, and mud-brick manufacture. Extensive irrigation systems and riverine settlements after about 6,500 years ago led to dams, urban water supplies, expanded groundwater use, river fleets, and alluvial mining, with major river engineering under the Chinese and Roman empires. Recent industrial effects have radically altered rivers worldwide. View this paper.

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ESR Dating Ungulate Teeth and Molluscs from the Paleolithic Site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece

Bonnie A. B. Blackwell,
Neeraj Sakhrani,
Impreet K. Singh,
Kalyani K. Gopalkrishna,
Vangelis Tourloukis,
Eleni Panagopoulou,
Panagiotis Karkanas,
Joel I. B. Blickstein,
Anne R. Skinner and
Jonathan A. Florentin
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Quaternary2018, 1(3), 22;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030022

15 October 2018

At 37°24′ N 22°8′ E, the Megalopolis Basin lies in the central Peloponnese Peninsula, southwestern Greece. In the Megalopolis Basin at ~350 m amsl, the Paleolithic site, Marathousa 1, sits within a palustrine/lacustrine clastic pa...

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River Systems and the Anthropocene: A Late Pleistocene and Holocene Timeline for Human Influence

Martin R. Gibling

Quaternary2018, 1(3), 21;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030021

4 October 2018

Rivers are central to debate about the Anthropocene because many human activities from antiquity focused on channels and floodplains. A literature compilation for the onset of human modification of rivers identifies six stages that represent key inno...

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47 Pages

New Insights into the LGM and LG in Southern France (Vaucluse): The Mustelids, Micromammals and Horses from Coulet des Roches

Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure,
Nicolas Boulbes,
Emmanuel Desclaux and
Adrian Marciszak

Quaternary2018, 1(3), 19;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030019

27 September 2018

Coulet des Roches is a natural karst trap in Southern France. Its infilling dates back to the end of the Pleniglacial (Last Glacial Maximum, LGM) and the end of the Tardiglacial (Last Glacial, LG). Three mustelid species have been identified in this...

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Identifying Past Remains of Morphologically Similar Vole Species Using Molar Shapes

Nicolas Navarro,
Sophie Montuire,
Rémi Laffont,
Emilie Steimetz,
Catalina Onofrei and
Aurélien Royer

Quaternary2018, 1(3), 20;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030020

27 September 2018

Accurate species identification in fossil remains is a complex task but is a key component for developing good inferences on many, if not all, fundamental questions in macroecology and macroevolution. In the Quaternary, arvicolines are very abundant...

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