If we restrict the use of Homo sapiens in the fossil record to specimens which share a
significant number of derived features in the skeleton with extant H. sapiens, the origin of our …

Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

Our understanding of the evolutionary history of primates is undergoing continual revision
due to ongoing genome sequencing efforts. Bolstered by growing fossil evidence, these …

Understanding the structure and variation of Homo sapiens populations in Africa is critical
for interpreting multiproxy evidence of their subsequent dispersals into Eurasia. However …

The timing and extent of palaeoenvironmental connections between northeast Africa, the
Levant and the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle and Late Pleistocene are critical to …

North African greening phases, during which large rivers ran through the Sahara Desert,
occurred repeatedly during the Quaternary and are regarded as key periods for the …

The role of mid-latitude precipitation in the hydrological forcing leading to the deposition of
sapropels in the Mediterranean Sea remains unclear. The new GDEC-4-2 borehole, East …

The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years.
However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this …

There is strong proxy and model evidence of precession-and obliquity-induced changes in
the freshwater budget over the Mediterranean Sea and its borderlands, yet explanations for …