Large-scale fluctuations in global climate and resulting changes in ecology had a profound
effect on human evolution and dispersal. Though hominin remains are scarce, studies …

This research aims to investigate the relationships between climate change and faunal
dynamics in south-west Europe, disentangling the asynchronous and diachronous dispersal …

The lower levels of the archaeological sequence of Kozarnika cave (north-western Bulgaria)
provide levels with non-Acheulian core-and-flake (as opposed to pebble-core) industries …

The chamois Rupicapra spp. is the most abundant mountain ungulate of Europe and the
Near East, where it occurs as two species, the northern chamois R. rupicapra and the …

This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology,
including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology …

This contribution presents a general account and summary of the research carried out over
the past decades on the Quaternary faunas of France. This country is located in the center of …

In recent years, an increasing number of discoveries have supported the idea that human
occupation of Europe took place earlier than expected, during the Villafranchian and …

A brief review of 38 members of four orders, Carnivora, Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and
Artiodactyla, from the Pleistocene Trlica locality (Montenegro), based on the material of …

The Southern chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) is a small-sized bovid that currently inhabits
the Cantabrian Mountain Range, the Pyrenees, and the Central Apennine Mountains. This …

This research aims to deconstruct time and mode of dispersal of large mammals in SW
Europe during the post-Olduvai Early Pleistocene, focusing on asynchronous versus …