The Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive from Honshu Island, central Japan, provides
a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental record, including a detailed record of explosive …

A new development in archaeological chronology involves the use of far travelled volcanic
ash which may form discrete but invisible layers within a site's stratigraphy. Known as …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

Although modern humans left Africa multiple times over 100,000 years ago, those broadly
ancestral to non-Africans dispersed less than 100,000 years ago. Most models hold that …

The most explosive volcanic event of the Quaternary was the eruption of Mt. Toba, Sumatra,
75,000 y ago, which produced voluminous ash deposits found across much of the Indian …

Oblique plate convergence between Indian Ocean lithosphere and continental crust of the
Sunda plate is distributed between subduction on the Sunda megathrust and upper plate …

India is located at a critical geographic crossroads for understanding the dispersal of Homo
sapiens out of Africa and into Asia and Oceania. Here we report evidence for long-term …

Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the
magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and …

Generation of silicic magmas leads to emplacement of granite plutons, huge explosive
volcanic eruptions and physical and chemical zoning of continental and arc crust …