One of the most interesting aspects of the settlement of Europe is the possible continuity or
discontinuity of the populations living in this continent during the Early and Middle …

A critical assesment of the available magnetostratigraphic and/or radiometric age constraints
on key sites bearing hominin remains and/or lithic industries from southern Europe (Italy …

Longgupo cave, located in Chongqing Municipality, China, was discovered in 1984. Sixteen
Gigantopithecus teeth and two hominid fossils accompanied with abundant mammalian …

Paleomagnetic analyses were conducted on two cores drilled at Ceprano in central Italy
where an incomplete hominin cranium was discovered in 1994, as well as on two additional …

Abstract The Mas des Caves site at Lunel-Viel, Southern France, is a complex of several
caves, developed in Miocene limestone, that have yielded a rich archaeo-palaeontological …

ESR dating was applied to fossil teeth and optically bleached quartz grain samples from two
units of the sequence at Vallparadís (Barcelona, Spain): weighted mean ESR age estimates …

Increasing evidence suggests that the European human settlement is older than 1.2 Ma.
However, there is a fierce debate about the continuity or discontinuity of the early human …

The Cenozoic basins of western Iberia have a culminant allostratigraphic unit (designated
UBS13), which records the beginning of Atlantic drainage and predates the fluvial incision …

Current knowledge of hominin migration into Eurasia is severely biased by poor age
constraints at many Lower Pleistocene sites. This contribution analyzes the current status of …

1.1. Background Our current understanding of early human settlements in North Africa relies
on a few well-contextualized Oldowan and Acheulean sites (eg, Ain Hanech, El Kherba, Ain …