Marine mollusc exploitation in Mediterranean prehistory: an overview

AC Colonese, MA Mannino, DEBY Mayer, DA Fa… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Marine molluscs have been recovered from sites around the Mediterranean Sea dating as
far back as the Lower Palaeolithic, when hominins might have started consuming them (ca …

Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Expected trends and surprises in the Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands

JS Carrión, S Fernández, P González-Sampériz… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent, high-resolution palaeoecological records are changing the traditional picture of post-
glacial vegetation succession in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition to the influence of …

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, JS Carrión… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

The complex history of the olive tree: from Late Quaternary diversification of Mediterranean lineages to primary domestication in the northern Levant

G Besnard, B Khadari, M Navascués… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The location and timing of domestication of the olive tree, a key crop in Early Mediterranean
societies, remain hotly debated. Here, we unravel the history of wild olives (oleasters), and …

Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula

P González-Sampériz, SAG Leroy, JS Carrión… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2010 - Elsevier
A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula
shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed …

The historical origins of aridity and vegetation degradation in southeastern Spain

JS Carrión, S Fernández, G Jiménez-Moreno… - Journal of arid …, 2010 - Elsevier
The complex relationships within modern landscapes cannot be understood without the
benefit of retrospective studies. We review palaeoenvironmental data for southeastern …

[HTML][HTML] Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe

ST Hussain, M Weiss, TK Nielsen - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2022 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

Olea europaea L. in the north Mediterranean Basin during the Pleniglacial and the Early–Middle Holocene

Y Carrión, M Ntinou, E Badal - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
The paper aims to define the natural distribution of Olea europaea L. var. sylvestris (Miller)
Lehr. in the North Mediterranean basin during the Pleniglacial and the Early–Middle …

The Strait of Gibraltar as a melting pot for plant biodiversity

F Rodríguez-Sánchez, R Pérez-Barrales… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The S Iberian Peninsula and NW Africa constitute one of the main hotspots for plant
biodiversity within the Mediterranean Basin. At the core of this hotspot, across the Strait of …