Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the potential causes of Neanderthal extinction: Abrupt climate change versus competition and interbreeding

A Timmermann - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Anatomically Modern Humans are the sole survivor of a group of hominins that
inhabited our planet during the last ice age and that included, among others, Homo …

Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka

L Sadori, A Koutsodendris, K Panagiotopoulos… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
Lake Ohrid is located at the border between FYROM (Former Yugoslavian Republic of
Macedonia) and Albania and formed during the latest phases of Alpine orogenesis. It is the …

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

E Zeller, A Timmermann, KS Yun, P Raia, K Stein… - Science, 2023 - science.org
To investigate the role of vegetation and ecosystem diversity on hominin adaptation and
migration, we identify past human habitat preferences over time using a transient 3-million …

Vegetation and climate changes during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles in the western Mediterranean: a new long pollen record from Padul (southern Iberian …

J Camuera, G Jiménez-Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new sediment core from Padul, Padul-15-05, provides a long and continuous sedimentary
and paleoenvironmental record of the last∼ 200 kyr. Here we present a detailed …

[图书][B] The archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid empire

R Matthews, HF Nashli - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

African climate response to orbital and glacial forcing in 140,000-y simulation with implications for early modern human environments

JE Kutzbach, J Guan, F He, AS Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A climate/vegetation model simulates episodic wetter and drier periods at the 21,000-y
precession period in eastern North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Levant over the …

[HTML][HTML] Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran

MJ Shoaee, PS Breeze, NA Drake, SM Hashemi… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia
occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations …

Two-stage mid-Brunhes climate transition and mid-Pleistocene human diversification

H Ao, EJ Rohling, C Stringer, AP Roberts… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global climate shifted to markedly warmer interglacial conditions across the “mid-Brunhes
transition”(MBT,~ 400 ka). However, a global MBT synthesis that spans marine and …

Mediterranean overflow over the last 250 kyr: freshwater forcing from the tropics to the ice sheets

FJ Sierro, DA Hodell, N Andersen… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate past changes in the Mediterranean Overflow Water (MOW) to the Atlantic, we
analyzed the strength of the MOW and benthic δ13C along the last 250 kyr at Integrated …