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Quaternary, Volume 8, Issue 4

December 2025 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access

3D Modeling of Rock-Cut Monuments with Astronomical Elements Using Aerial Photogrammetry

  • Penka Maglova,
  • Alexey Stoev,
  • Ognyan Ognyanov and
  • Mina Spasova
Quaternary2025, 8(4), 67;https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8040067 
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13 November 2025

This report presents the advantages of using drone-photographic scanning technology as a method for creating 3D documentation and 3D databases of rock-cut monuments with astronomical elements. Through this modern technology, together with specialized...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Paleoenvironments of the Last Interglacial–Glacial Transition on the East European Plain: Insights into Climate-Driven Ecosystem Dynamics

  • E. Ershova,
  • S. Kuzmina,
  • S. Sycheva,
  • I. Zyuganova,
  • E. Izumova,
  • A. Zharov,
  • V. Yu. Kuznetsov,
  • F. Maksimov,
  • S. Kolesnikov and
  • N. Lavrenov
  • + 1 author

11 November 2025

A multiproxy study of a new Pleistocene locality at Ivantzevo, Moscow Region, was conducted to reconstruct paleoenvironments from the Middle Pleistocene to the Last Pleniglacial. Lacustrine deposits and peat accumulated in a wetland within a fluviogl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
269 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2025

Reconstruction of seven paleoglaciers in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado formed the basis of temperature-index modeling to estimate the magnitude of temperature change during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The model is used to de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
17 Pages

Fire Along the Street of the Dead: New Comprehensive Archaeomagnetic Survey in Teotihuacan (Central Mesoamerica)

  • Karen Arreola Romero,
  • Avto Goguitchaichvili,
  • Vadim Kravchinsky,
  • Gloria Torres,
  • Verónica Ortega,
  • Jorge Archer,
  • Rubén Cejudo,
  • Francisco Bautista,
  • Alejandra García Pimentel and
  • Rafael García Ruiz
  • + 1 author

1 November 2025

Teotihuacan, one of the most significant urban and ceremonial centers of ancient Mesoamerica, was abruptly abandoned in the mid-1st millennium AD. The cause and timing of its collapse—commonly placed between 600 and 650 AD—remain major qu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
223 Views
13 Pages

A Review of ArcGIS Spatial Analysis in Chinese Archaeobotany: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

  • Zhikun Ma,
  • Siyu Yang,
  • Bingxin Shao,
  • Francesca Monteith and
  • Linlin Zhai

31 October 2025

Over the past decade, the rapid development of geospatial tools has significantly expanded the scope of archaeobotanical research, enabling unprecedented insights into ancient plant domestication, agricultural practices, and human-environment interac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
270 Views
20 Pages

The Relationship Between Dry–Wet Change and the Manchu Rise in China

  • Xiaodong Wang,
  • Xiaoyun Xu,
  • Long Fei,
  • Xiaohui Liu and
  • Lijie Yang

28 October 2025

Exploring the impact of dry–wet change on the Manchu rise has important implications for revealing the impact of climate change on ethnic dynamics. In this study, we used tree rings of Carya cathayensis and historical data to study this dynamic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
250 Views
23 Pages

Middle Holocene Subsistence in Southwestern Transylvania: Bioarchaeological Data on the Multicultural Site of Șoimuș-Teleghi (Hunedoara County, Romania)

  • Margareta Simina Stanc,
  • Daniel Ioan Malaxa,
  • Ioan Alexandru Bărbat,
  • Antoniu Tudor Marc,
  • Mariana Popovici,
  • Luminița Bejenaru and
  • Mihaela Danu

23 October 2025

This work proposes to contribute through an interdisciplinary perspective to the evaluation of paleoeconomic and paleoenvironmental changes during Middle Holocene in Southwestern Transylvania. The study integrates archaeozoological data with phytolit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
22 Pages

23 October 2025

In the present work, we investigate the post-glacial aggradation of three tributary valleys draining the left hydrographic basin of the Tiber River in central Rome: the Murcia, Caffarella, and Grottaperfetta valleys. We describe the Upper Pleistocene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
441 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2025

The relationship between climate and independent glacier masses is now understood, but what is not understood is how ice sheets respond during times of rapid climate change. At its maximum extent the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) was sourced fr...

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