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 …

This review presents the themes of a special issue dealing with environmental scenarios of
human evolution during the Early Pleistocene (2.6–0.78 Ma; MIS 103-MIS 19) and early …

50,000 years ago–merely a blip in evolutionary time–our Homo sapiens ancestors were
competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had …

Phytoliths, microscopic plant silica bodies, are often preserved in modern and fossil soils
and sediment, as well as in archaeological contexts. They record unique characteristics of …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

The human settlement of Europe during Pleistocene times was sporadic and several stages
have been recognized, both from paleaoanthropological and archaeological records. If the …

Persian walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide
for its wood and nuts. Despite the increasing interest in the development of conservation …

This paper records the findings from c. 80 prehistoric sites that have been discovered in the
alluvial deposits of the rivers Creuse, Cher, and Loir, tributaries of the middle Loire River …

This paper presents an artistic paleolandscape experiment based primarily on recent
palynological data from the Paleolithic site of Pešturina, in the Central Balkans of Serbia …

New fieldwork and the revision of lithic collections during the past decade have renewed our
interpretation of the timing and characteristics of the earliest Acheulean techno-complexes in …