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Quaternary, Volume 8, Issue 1

March 2025 - 16 articles

Cover Story: About 350,000 years ago, at the Devil’s Trails ichnosite, four, maybe five, hominins (Homo heidelbergensis s.l.) moved from the pathway at the top of an ignimbrite flow of the Roccamonfina volcano to the sharp slope and left their footprints, zigzagging down its slippery and muddy surface. In an attempt to infer the body size of the trackmakers, with the awareness that the results mainly depend on the technique of footprint measurement, the environmental context (substrate, surface slope, trackmaker gait, etc.), the equation used, and the slight dimensional differences between a fleshy foot and a footprint, we apply different formulas. Based on the best-preserved footprints, the average stature and body mass of each trackmaker approximately range from 152 to 180 cm and from 51 kg to 69 kg, respectively. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,928 Views
28 Pages

20 March 2025

The timing, cause, and magnitude of mammalian extinctions during the African Middle Pleistocene remain largely unresolved. The demise of Elephas/Palaeoloxodon recki, a lineage that had a great geographic and temporal span, represents a particula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,459 Views
19 Pages

Archaeomagnetic Insights into Pre-Hispanic Mayan Lime Production: Chronological Framework and Evidence of an Apparent 500-Year Hiatus in the Yucatán Peninsula

  • Jocelyne Martínez Landín,
  • Avto Goguitchaichvili,
  • Soledad Ortiz,
  • Oscar de Lucio,
  • Vadim A. Kravchinsky,
  • Rubén Cejudo,
  • Miguel Cervantes,
  • Rafael García-Ruiz,
  • Juan Morales and
  • Francisco Bautista
  • + 4 authors

20 March 2025

The Yucatán Peninsula, a key region of the ancient Maya civilization, has long presented challenges in establishing absolute chronological frameworks for its cultural practices. While the central regions of Mesoamerica have been extensively st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,301 Views
41 Pages

18 March 2025

As humans expanded across the globe, the Americas were the last continents to be colonized. While debates persist regarding the timing and mechanisms of this process, it is widely accepted that by the Pleistocene–Holocene transition, the New Wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,536 Views
16 Pages

17 March 2025

Although the Late Pleistocene glaciation history of the Fraser Lowland (BC, Canada) is relatively well studied, little is known about ice-flow directions during the last glaciation (Fraser glaciation). Lidar imagery from the western Fraser Lowland wa...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,236 Views
5 Pages

Introduction: Mammals Biochronology and Paleoecology of the Euro-Mediterranean Quaternary

  • Alessio Iannucci,
  • George E. Konidaris,
  • Dimitris S. Kostopoulos,
  • Joan Madurell-Malapeira and
  • Raffaele Sardella

6 March 2025

The Quaternary is a time of fundamental climatic shifts and environmental changes that highlight the need for a thorough investigation from different perspectives and at multiple scales to disentangle the factors involved in the response of the biota...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,011 Views
19 Pages

18 February 2025

Based on 88 well-dated and high-resolution paleoclimate records, global and hemispheric stacks of the last deglacial climate were synthesized by utilizing the normalized average method. A sequential relationship between the West Antarctic Ice Sheet D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,213 Views
22 Pages

Streamflow Reconstruction Using Multi-Taxa Tree-Ring Records from Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, Western Himalaya

  • Asmaul Husna,
  • Santosh K. Shah,
  • Nivedita Mehrotra,
  • Lamginsang Thomte,
  • Deeksha,
  • Tanveer W. Rahman,
  • Uttam Pandey,
  • Nazimul Islam,
  • Narayan P. Gaire and
  • Dharmaveer Singh

8 February 2025

To study the long-term hydroclimate variability in the Satluj Basin, streamflow data was reconstructed using tree-ring width datasets from multiple taxa available from the Kullu Valley, western (Indian) Himalaya. Five ring-width tree-ring chronologie...

  • Reply
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,639 Views
12 Pages
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,557 Views
16 Pages

5 February 2025

In the North Atlantic region, the transition from the very cold Lateglacial Stadial (GS-1) to the temperate Holocene was abrupt, with a rapid increase in temperature of several degrees, after which the low-stature, cold-tolerant Stadial vegetation wa...

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