Paleoanthropologists and archeologists interested in occupation histories, faunal remains,
and objects of material culture have become increasingly reliant on optically stimulated …

Multiple episodes of rapid and gradual climatic changes influenced the evolution and
ecology of mammalian species and communities throughout the Cenozoic. Climatic change …

Aim The mesic biome, encompassing both rain forest and open sclerophyllous forests, is
central to understanding the evolution of Australia's terrestrial biota and has long been …

A number of recent optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) studies have cited post-
depositional mixing as a dominant source of equivalent dose (De) scatter across a range of …

The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Ascertaining the timing of the peopling of Europe, after the first out-of-Africa demographic
expansion at the end of the Pliocene, is of great interest to paleoanthropologists. One of the …

Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions impoverished mammalian diversity worldwide. The
causes of these extinctions in Australia are most controversial but essential to resolve …

Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

The origins, evolution and palaeodiversity of Australia's unique marsupial fauna are
reviewed. Australia's marsupial fauna is both taxonomically and ecologically diverse …

How well the ecology, zoogeography and evolution of modern biotas is understood depends
substantially on knowledge of the Pleistocene,. Australia has one of the most distinctive, but …