A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Despite increasing interest in the relationship between culture transformation and abrupt
climate change, their complexities are poorly understood. The local impact of global …

Cannabis is among the oldest human domesticates and has been subjected to intensive
artificial (human-mediated) selection throughout history to create a wide array of varieties …

Abstract The Pyrenean Lake Montcortès sediments hold the longest continuous and
absolutely varve-dated record of the Mediterranean region, encompassing the last three …

After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of
El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully …

Global change potentially increases forest vulnerability. Different abiotic and biotic factors
may interact to cause forest decline and accelerated tree mortality. We studied a mixed …

Climatic and environmental changes have been commonly proposed as driving factors
behind the decline of Neanderthals in Europe. The Cantabrian region, in northern Iberia, is a …

In this study we present evidence of braided plant fibres and basketry imprints on clay
recovered from Coves de Santa Maira, a Palaeolithic-Mesolithic cave site located in the …

Few continental palaeoenvironmental sedimentary sequences from Southern Europe are
long enough to span the last interglacial period (Marine Isotopic Stage-MIS 5), the last …

According to radiometric dates and the current state of research, the Balearic Islands were
not colonized by humans prior to c. 4420/4220 cal yr BP. Therefore, it is possible to know the …