During the Pleistocene, Australia and New Guinea supported a rich assemblage of large
vertebrates. Why these animals disappeared has been debated for more than a century and …

Comprehensive review of archaeological data shows that Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New
Guinea) was first occupied by humans ca. 47 ka (47,000 years ago); evidence for earlier …

Peatlands are archives of environmental change that can be driven by climate and human
activity. Proxies for peatland vegetation composition provide records of (local) environmental …

Polysaccharides constitute an important carbon pool in marine systems, but much is still
unknown about the fate and degradation of these compounds. They are derived partly from …

We present an 8000-year biomarker and stable carbon isotope record from the Verlorenvlei
Estuary, South Africa. We assessed how leaf wax lipids, insoluble macromolecular organic …

High resolution X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is presented as a robust palaeoclimatic proxy,
suitable for use on Late Pleistocene to Holocene sediments located in a volcanic crater on …

Since the 1960s, Australian scientists have speculated on the impact of human arrival on fire
regimes in Australia, and on the relationship of landscape fire to extinction of the Pleistocene …

Natural archives have been used to reconstruct mercury atmospheric deposition at different
spatial and temporal scales during the Holocene in the Northern Hemisphere. In this study …

The reconstruction of vegetation evolution and climate changes at low latitudes since the
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains incomplete. In this study, we reconstructed the …

The 2016 version of the FosSahul database compiled non-human vertebrate megafauna
fossil ages from Sahul published up to 2013 in a standardized format. Its purpose was to …