Danube loess stratigraphy—Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model

SB Marković, T Stevens, GJ Kukla, U Hambach… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe
and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record …

[HTML][HTML] The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model

J Zilhão - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos

JL Arsuaga, I Martínez, LJ Arnold, A Aranburu… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Seventeen Middle Pleistocene crania from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)
are analyzed, including seven new specimens. This sample makes it possible to thoroughly …

Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence

B Li, Z Jacobs, RG Roberts, SH Li - Geochronometria, 2014 - Springer
Quartz has been the main mineral used for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
of sediments over the last decade. The quartz OSL signal, however, has been shown to …

Evaluating the suitability of extended-range luminescence dating techniques over early and Middle Pleistocene timescales: Published datasets and case studies from …

LJ Arnold, M Demuro, JM Parés… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The emergence of alternative luminescence dating techniques, such as thermally
transferred optically stimulated luminescence (TT-OSL), post-infrared infrared stimulated …

Luminescence dating and palaeomagnetic age constraint on hominins from Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain

LJ Arnold, M Demuro, JM Parés, JL Arsuaga… - Journal of human …, 2014 - Elsevier
Establishing a reliable chronology on the extensive hominin remains at Sima de los Huesos
is critical for an improved understanding of the complex evolutionary histories and …

First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

E Méndez-Quintas, M Santonja, A Pérez-González… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract We describe a European Acheulean site characterised by an extensive
accumulation of large cutting tools (LCT). This type of Lower Paleolithic assemblage, with …

Dating sediments using potassium feldspar single-grain IRSL: initial methodological considerations

EJ Rhodes - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Potassium feldspar shows good potential for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments
in several locations assessed, including California, Tibet, Mongolia, Spain, Egypt, the UK …

On natural and laboratory generated dose response curves for quartz of different grain sizes from Romanian loess

A Timar-Gabor, AG Wintle - Quaternary Geochronology, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the most important foundations of luminescence dating is the assumption that the
growth of the luminescence signal in nature can be reproduced under laboratory conditions …

A marine isotope stage 11 coastal Acheulian workshop with associated wood at Amanzi Springs Area 1, South Africa

AIR Herries, LJ Arnold, G Boschian, AF Blackwood… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Amanzi Springs is a series of inactive thermal springs located near Kariega in the Eastern
Cape of South Africa. Excavations in the 1960s exposed rare, stratified Acheulian-bearing …