This paper presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Berlin in February 2009, concerned
with current research on the glacial history of northern Europe, including the British Isles …

Abstract Interglacials of the Quaternary Period are currently the focus of a great deal of
attention within the scientific community. This is primarily because they play a vital role in …

Abstract Late Cenozoic (and especially Quaternary) fluvial deposits and related landforms
provide valuable information about landscape evolution, not just in terms of changing …

Modern human dispersal into Europe is thought to have occurred with the start of the Upper
Paleolithic around 50,000–40,000 y ago. The Levantine corridor hypothesis suggests that …

Tooth wear analysis techniques (mesowear and microwear) are employed to analyze
dietary traits in proboscideans, perissodactyls and artiodactyls from 33 Pleistocene localities …

Ungulate diets may vary following differences in vegetation, and their body size is affected
by a complex set of ecological and physiological variables. Here we analyse Middle and …

The period between 600 and 400 ka is a critical phase for human evolution in Europe. The
south and northwest saw a dramatic increase in sites, the spread of handaxe technology …

Aminostratigraphies of Quaternary non-marine deposits in Europe have been previously
based on the racemization of a single amino acid in aragonitic shells from land and …

Marine mollusc shells enclose a wealth of information on coastal organisms and their
environment. Their life history traits as well as (palaeo‐) environmental conditions, including …

The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated
questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies …