Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish,–and
Herto, in Ethiopia, have drawn on a variety of chronometric evidence, including 40Ar/39Ar …

We define tephras and cryptotephras and their components (mainly ash-sized particles of
glass±crystals in distal deposits) and summarize the basis of tephrochronology as a …

This paper provides an overview of stable isotope analysis (H, C, N, O, Si) of the macro-and
microscopic remains from aquatic organisms found in lake sediment records and their …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

This article presents a bibliometric analysis and a mapping of the intellectual and conceptual
structure of the research conducted on 'Compositional Data'(CoDa) in Social Sciences …

From its Icelandic origins in the study of visible tephra horizons, tephrochronology took a
remarkable step in the late 1980 s with the discovery of a ca. 4300‐year‐old microscopic …

Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the
magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and …

Layers of far-travelled volcanic ash (tephra) from explosive volcanic eruptions provide
stratigraphic and numerical dating horizons in sedimentary and volcanic sequences. Such …

Abstract Marine Isotopic Stage 5 is associated with wetter climatic conditions in the Saharo-
Arabian deserts. This stage also corresponds to the establishment of Middle Paleolithic …

This paper demonstrates the use of tephrochronology in dating the earliest archaeological
evidence for the settlement of Iceland. This island was one of the last places on Earth settled …