Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Archaeological sites are not distributed evenly throughout the landscape. For the
Palaeolithic record, signals derived from the inhomogeneous spatial patterns are used to …

We investigated palaeofood web structures using stable isotope analyses on animal bone
collagen from four Upper Palaeolithic sites dated to the Early Gravettian (Krems‐Hundssteig …

The goal of this paper is to refine the relative and absolute chronology of Epigravettian
culture (26.5–15.0 ka) in eastern Central Europe (ECE) and clarify its relation to the Last …

Population dynamics set the framework for human genetic and cultural evolution. For
foragers, demographic and environmental changes correlate strongly, although the causal …

Despite extensive archaeological research, our knowledge of the human population history
of Upper Paleolithic Europe remains limited, primarily due to the scarce availability and poor …

Comparative macro-archaeological investigations of the human deep past rely on the
availability of unified, quality-checked datasets integrating different layers of observation …

Identifying, analyzing, and explaining trends in the development of material culture is one of
the major concerns in prehistoric archaeology. The traditional recording of data in …

ABSTRACT During the Late Pleistocene, an ice cap temporarily rested on the highest
summit of the Black Forest, Feldberg, and on the surrounding region. Moraines inside the …

We present sequential oxygen isotope records (δ18Ophosphate vs. VSMOW) of horse tooth
enamel phosphate of six individuals from two adjacent Palaeolithic sites in Lower Austria …