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Quaternary, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2023 - 23 articles

Cover Story: We aimed to disentangle the drivers of past Holocene vegetation changes over eight millennia, using proxy records from a saddle mire in the Xistral mountains, NW Iberia. Our results suggest that climate and fire were the most significant drivers during the early Holocene with human activity becoming more prominent during the later Holocene. Changepoint analysis suggests that vegetation changes were variable affecting various taxa at different times. Changes associated with climate events were also variable, with the c. 8.2 cal. ka BP being well defined compared to the c. 4.2 and c. 2.8 cal. ka BP events. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,259 Views
24 Pages

16 March 2023

The geomorphic expression of active faulting and distinction of paleoseismic events in areas that are rapidly obscured by erosion/sedimentation still remains a considerable scientific problem. The present article discusses the revealing of surface fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,103 Views
15 Pages

Local Differentiation in the Loess Deposition as a Function of Dust Source: Key Study Novo Orahovo Loess Paleosol Sequence (Vojvodina, Serbia)

  • Slobodan B. Marković,
  • Jef Vandenberghe,
  • Zoran M. Perić,
  • Dávid Filyó,
  • Tamás Bartyik,
  • Milica G. Radaković,
  • Qingzhen Hao,
  • Rastko S. Marković,
  • Tin Lukić and
  • Nemanja Tomić
  • + 4 authors

16 March 2023

Typical patterns of the Late Pleistocene loess–paleosol units are preserved in the Novo Orahovo brickyard, Northern Serbia. Presented preliminary luminescence chronology supports the chronostratigraphic interpretations of global isotopic marine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,609 Views
27 Pages

High-Resolution Multiproxy Record of Environmental Changes and Anthropogenic Activities at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, Tanzania during the Last 5000 Years

  • Apichaya Englong,
  • Paramita Punwong,
  • Rob Marchant,
  • Tosak Seelanan,
  • Stephanie Wynne-Jones and
  • Prae Chirawatkul

13 March 2023

A high-resolution multiproxy sedimentary record comprising pollen, charcoal, trace element, stratigraphy and particle size data is used to reveal environmental changes from the mangrove ecosystem at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, Tanzania, over the last 5000...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,708 Views
25 Pages

10 March 2023

The acquisition of large prey by hominins living during the Marine Isotope Stage 3, including Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans, had nutritional and bioenergetic implications: these contain high fat amounts, provide a high energy return, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,385 Views
26 Pages

9 March 2023

The vegetation history of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain in the Holocene is considered according to pollen evidence from three coring sites where both terrestrial and marine ecology are reconstructed. These pollen sites record oscillations in the limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,745 Views
10 Pages

Evidence of Copper and Iron Deposits of the Protohistoric City of Temesa

  • Virgilio Vecchio,
  • Maurizio Cannatà,
  • Edoardo Proverbio,
  • Elpida Piperopoulos,
  • Lorenzo Torrisi and
  • Letteria Silipigni

7 March 2023

With the name ‘Temesa’ (Latin Tempsa), the ancients identified a settlement located along the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, cited by sources as an international metal exchange emporium. The town is mentioned by Homer as being famous in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,620 Views
23 Pages

1 March 2023

There are many opinions and arguments about the types of weapons that Neanderthals may have used. We list five assumptions about Neanderthal weapon-assisted hunting and suggest that the tip cross-sectional area (TCSA) approach may be used to assess t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,028 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2023

The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas, denoting the spread of open environments linked to the onset of cold and dry conditions in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,807 Views
26 Pages

13 February 2023

Pollen and sediment data from a 10.5 m-deep alluvial exposure and a secondary tributary exposure at Upper Arroyo, a seasonal river, in Saltillo, Mexico, were examined with the aim of reconstructing the vegetation and environmental history during the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,045 Views
17 Pages

12 February 2023

We present a timeseries of flood and slumping phases in central Europe for the past 65,000 years from event layers in sediment cores from infilled Eifel maar basins (Germany). Palynological, petrographic and organic carbon (chlorins) records are used...

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