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Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain

Marta Navazo Ruiz,
Alfonso Benito-Calvo,
María Carmen Lozano-Francisco,
Rodrigo Alonso Alcalde,
Pedro Alonso García,
Héctor de la Fuente Juez,
Marta Santamaría Diez and
Paula Cristóbal Cubillo

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 49;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040049

12 November 2024

Collecting is a form of leisure, and even a passion, consisting of collecting, preserving and displaying objects. When we look for its origin in the literature, we are taken back to “the appearance of writing and the fixing of knowledge”,...

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Old and New Approaches in Rock Art: Using Animal Motifs to Identify Palaeohabitats

Mirte Korpershoek,
Sally C. Reynolds,
Marcin Budka and
Philip Riris

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 48;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040048

7 November 2024

Humans are well known to have made paintings and engravings on rock surfaces, both geometric motifs with an unclear representation, and representative motifs that refer to their activities and aspects of their environment. This kind of art is widespr...

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A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) Based on the Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments

Nikolina Ilijanić,
Slobodan Miko,
Ozren Hasan,
Dea Brunović,
Martina Šparica Miko and
Saša Mesić

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 47;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040047

28 October 2024

A 7.4 m long sediment core has been retrieved from the central part of Lake Vrana on the island of Cres to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental conditions. Lake Vrana is the deepest freshwater lake in Croatia, located in the karst region of the eastern...

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Characterization of Heavy Minerals and Their Possible Sources in Quaternary Alluvial and Beach Sediments by an Integration of Microanalytical Data and Spectroscopy (FTIR, Raman and UV-Vis)

Adel A. Surour and
Amira M. El-Tohamy

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 46;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040046

22 October 2024

Quaternary stream sediments and beach black sand in north-western Saudi Arabia (namely Wadi Thalbah, Wadi Haramil and Wadi Al Miyah) are characterized by the enrichment of heavy minerals. Concentrates of the heavy minerals in two size fractions (63&n...

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Holocene Climatic Changes in the Negev Desert (Israel): Pollen and Stable Isotopes (¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁵N/¹⁴N) Records from Atzmaut and Ramon I Zoogenic Deposits

Anna Babenko

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 45;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040045

17 October 2024

Two zoogenic deposits from the central part of the Negev Desert (Israel) were investigated by stable isotopes (carbon 13C/12C and nitrogen 15N/14N) and pollen analyses. The merger of these data and results of radiocarbon dating of Atzmaut and Ramon I...

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Palaeoecological Conditions in the South-Eastern and Western Baltic Sea during the Last Millennium

Ekaterina Ponomarenko,
Tatiana Pugacheva and
Liubov Kuleshova

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 44;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040044

14 October 2024

We present the reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Gdansk, Bornholm, and Arkona Basins of the Baltic Sea over the last millennium. A multiproxy study (including geochemical, XRF, grain size, AMS, and micropalaeontological analyses...

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The Final Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Faunal Dispersals from East to Europe and Correlation of the Villafranchian Biochronology between Eastern and Western Europe

Nikolai Spassov

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 43;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040043

11 October 2024

The Villafranchian stage in the mammal fauna evolution in Eurasia (ca. 3.6/3.4 Ma—ca. 1.2 Ma) is associated with the beginning of the formation of the modern appearance of the mammal megafauna of today’s Palaearctic. The cooling and the a...

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Plio-Pleistocene Small Mammal-Based Biochronology of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasus

Alexey S. Tesakov,
Pavel Frolov,
Alexandra Simakova,
Albina Yakimova,
Vadim Titov,
Pranav Ranjan,
Hasan Çelik and
Vladimir Trifonov

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 42;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040042

29 September 2024

The known Plio-Pleistocene mammalian record, mainly represented by small mammals, and its biotic and geological context in the vast region of Eastern Turkey and Transcaucasus provides a sound base for regional biochronology. Recently obtained faunal...

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The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

George E. Konidaris,
Athanassios Athanassiou,
Vangelis Tourloukis,
Krystalia Chitoglou,
Thijs van Kolfschoten,
Domenico Giusti,
Nicholas Thompson,
Georgia Tsartsidou,
Effrosyni Roditi and
Eleni Panagopoulou
+ 2 authors

Quaternary2024, 7(4), 41;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040041

24 September 2024

Recent investigations in the upper Lower–Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis Basin (Greece) led to the discovery of several sites/findspots with abundant faunal material. Here, we provide an updated overview including new results on...

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Quaternary, Volume 7, Issue 4

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Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain

Old and New Approaches in Rock Art: Using Animal Motifs to Identify Palaeohabitats

A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) Based on the Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments

Characterization of Heavy Minerals and Their Possible Sources in Quaternary Alluvial and Beach Sediments by an Integration of Microanalytical Data and Spectroscopy (FTIR, Raman and UV-Vis)

Holocene Climatic Changes in the Negev Desert (Israel): Pollen and Stable Isotopes (¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁵N/¹⁴N) Records from Atzmaut and Ramon I Zoogenic Deposits

Palaeoecological Conditions in the South-Eastern and Western Baltic Sea during the Last Millennium

The Final Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Faunal Dispersals from East to Europe and Correlation of the Villafranchian Biochronology between Eastern and Western Europe

Plio-Pleistocene Small Mammal-Based Biochronology of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasus

The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

Quaternary, Volume 7, Issue 4

Articles (19)

Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain

Old and New Approaches in Rock Art: Using Animal Motifs to Identify Palaeohabitats

A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) Based on the Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments

Characterization of Heavy Minerals and Their Possible Sources in Quaternary Alluvial and Beach Sediments by an Integration of Microanalytical Data and Spectroscopy (FTIR, Raman and UV-Vis)

Holocene Climatic Changes in the Negev Desert (Israel): Pollen and Stable Isotopes (13C/12C and 15N/14N) Records from Atzmaut and Ramon I Zoogenic Deposits

Palaeoecological Conditions in the South-Eastern and Western Baltic Sea during the Last Millennium

The Final Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Faunal Dispersals from East to Europe and Correlation of the Villafranchian Biochronology between Eastern and Western Europe

Plio-Pleistocene Small Mammal-Based Biochronology of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasus

The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

Holocene Climatic Changes in the Negev Desert (Israel): Pollen and Stable Isotopes (¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁵N/¹⁴N) Records from Atzmaut and Ramon I Zoogenic Deposits