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Quaternary, Volume 5, Issue 4

December 2022 - 16 articles

Cover Story: During the early and mid-Holocene, climate changes that occurred between ~10,200 and ~4650 cal BP in the Central Sahara determined the adaptive responses of polyploid grasses in the form of multiporate pollen. For the first time, the Poaceae pollen preserved in the archaeological record of the Takarkori rockshelter offers the possibility of obtaining palaeoecological information from an anomaly rather than from the normal morphology of the identified pollen. Multiporate pollen was found in organic sands and coprolites of ovicaprines. The supernumerary pores were primarily an effect of climatic/hydrological changes, and, in the most recent phases, continued plant harvesting was a further anthropogenic pressure on the wild grasses living in the region. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,095 Views
24 Pages

Landscape Response to Dynamic Human Pressure in the Paliouras Lagoon, Halkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece

  • Lucrezia Masci,
  • Cristiano Vignola,
  • Georgios C. Liakopoulos,
  • Katerina Kouli,
  • Olga Koukousioura,
  • Elina Aidona,
  • Matthias Moros,
  • Konstantinos Vouvalidis,
  • Adam Izdebski and
  • Alessia Masi

16 December 2022

High-resolution pollen analysis of a sediment core recovered from Paliouras lagoon (Greece) allowed us to reconstruct the environmental dynamics of the Halkidiki peninsula during the last 4000 years. Palynological results have been interpreted and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,141 Views
18 Pages

Hyperspectral Core-Logging for Past Primary Productivity Assessment

  • Antonin Van Exem,
  • Maxime Debret,
  • Yoann Copard,
  • Kévin Jacq,
  • Charles Verpoorter,
  • Stéphane Marcotte,
  • Benoit Laignel and
  • Boris Vannière

12 December 2022

Past primary productivity is tracked in lake sediments to reconstruct environmental changes. However, the resolution of the routinely used destructive techniques is not suitable for the analysis of a large number of samples due to cost. Non-destructi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,225 Views
43 Pages

8 December 2022

Palaeolake Flixton, in the eastern Vale of Pickering in northeast Yorkshire, UK, existed as open water during the Lateglacial and early to mid-Holocene, until hydroseral succession and gradual terrestrialisation changed it to an area of fen and basin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,197 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2022

Ban Rai Rockshelter in northwest Thailand, dating to the Terminal Pleistocene and Middle Holocene, includes evidence for hunter-gatherer exploitation of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and arthropods. Abundant faunal remains, identified throughout si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,833 Views
17 Pages

Palaeoenvironment, Settlement, and Land Use in the Late Neolithic—Bronze Age Site of Colombare di Negrar di Valpolicella (N Italy, On-Site)

  • Umberto Tecchiati,
  • Paola Salzani,
  • Fiorenza Gulino,
  • Barbara Proserpio,
  • Chiara Reggio,
  • Cristiano Putzolu,
  • Eleonora Rattighieri,
  • Eleonora Clò,
  • Anna Maria Mercuri and
  • Assunta Florenzano

5 December 2022

Palynological and archaeobotanical analyses have been carried out as part of the interdisciplinary project of Colombare di Negrar, a prehistoric site in the Lessini Mountains (northern Italy). The palaeoenvironmental and economic reconstruction from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,805 Views
18 Pages

Paleoenvironmental Changes for the Last 3000 Cal Years BP in the Pueyrredón Lake Basin, Southern Patagonia, Argentina

  • Maria A. Marcos,
  • Florencia P. Bamonte,
  • Marcos E. Echeverria,
  • Gonzalo D. Sottile and
  • Maria V. Mancini

1 December 2022

Patagonian shrub and ecotonal communities were sensitive to past environmental changes and thus may also be affected by future ones. Therefore, their paleoecological study constitutes a valuable tool to understand the way in which these plant communi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,510 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2022

Sedimentological and biogeochemical measurements were conducted on minerotrophic peat in a wilderness area on a granitic plateau to reconstruct the local ecosystem’s history and clarify the peat’s response to local and global changes. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,313 Views
19 Pages

Comparison of High-Resolution 14C and Luminescence-Based Chronologies of the MIS 2 Madaras Loess/Paleosol Sequence, Hungary: Implications for Chronological Studies

  • Pál Sümegi,
  • Dávid Molnár,
  • Sándor Gulyás,
  • Thomas Stevens,
  • László Makó,
  • Péter Cseh,
  • Mihály Molnár,
  • Kathryn Fitzsimmons,
  • Janina J. Nett and
  • Dmytro Hlavatskyi
  • + 1 author

10 November 2022

Numerous loess/paleosol sequences (LPS) in the Carpathian Basin span the period of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2 and the last glacial maximum (LGM). Nevertheless, only two known records—Madaras and Dunaszekcső—preserve highly resolved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,389 Views
22 Pages

Late-Holocene Sediment Storage in Upland Valley Systems in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia

  • Alemayehu Kasaye Tilahun,
  • Gert Verstraeten,
  • Margaret Chen,
  • Guchie Gulie,
  • Femke Augustijns and
  • Ward Swinnen

4 November 2022

Part of the eroded soil material from the hillslopes is temporarily stored on hillslopes and in river valleys as colluvial and alluvial storage, respectively. This storage component of a catchment’s sediment budget is an important archive refle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,071 Views
19 Pages

The 2022 Mw 6.1 Pasaman Barat, Indonesia Earthquake, Confirmed the Existence of the Talamau Segment Fault Based on Teleseismic and Satellite Gravity Data

  • Bondan Galih Dewanto,
  • Ramadhan Priadi,
  • Leni Sophia Heliani,
  • Al Shida Natul,
  • Muhammad Yanis,
  • Indranova Suhendro and
  • Admiral Musa Julius

2 November 2022

A Mw 6.1 earthquake on 25 February 2022, at around 8:39 a.m. local time, struck Pasaman Barat Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia, and was felt in Singapore and Malaysia. The hypocenter of this earthquake was 12 km deep and preceded by an Mw 4.9 foresho...

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