Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of
the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago …

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

Little is known about the antiquity, nature, and scale of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer impact
on their ecosystems, despite the importance for studies of conservation and human …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer cap** the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …

Despite the vast array of different geochronological tools available, dating the Paleolithic
remains one of the discipline's greatest challenges. This review focuses on two different …

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 …

Archaeological indications for off-site burning by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-
gatherers present intransigent interpretive problems; by contrast, burning practices by recent …

Abstract The Quaternary System/Period represents the past 2.58 million years and is
officially subdivided into the Pleistocene and Holocene series/epochs, with the base of the …

This paper links research questions in Quaternary geology with those in Palaeolithic
archaeology. A detailed geological reconstruction of The Netherlands' south‐west offshore …

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial
mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North European plain, 125,000 …