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Cenozoic era

Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya

Jennifer M. Miller, Ceri Shipton, Nikos Kourampas, Josep M. Parés, Hubert Vonhof, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Arturo Cueva-Temprana, Makayla Harding, Alison Crowther, Dovydas Jurkenas, Doreen Mutoro, Jacopo Niccolò Cerassoni, Ricardo Fernandes, Christine Maroma, Emmanuel Ndiema, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia

published 20 May 2026

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Late Cenozoic exhumation in the eastern Junggar Basin: Evidence from zircon (U-Th)/He ages of combustion metamorphic rocks

Bin Chen, Pan Liu, Yan Dong, Changjuan Feng, Zhuang Zhao, Chaoqun Yang, Yixin Dong

published 05 May 2026

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Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments

Emilie Campmas, Matthieu Lebon, Catherine Dupont, Manon Bondetti, Eslem Ben Arous, Arnaud Lenoble, Driss Chahid, Pierre Lozouet, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Mohamed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui, Roland Nespoulet

published 25 Mar 2026

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Growth rates of coral reefs peaked at 25 °C through the Holocene

Tonya Macedo, Robert van Woesik

published 11 Mar 2026

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Analysis of the failure state of the Cenozoic clay layer in thin bedrock coal seam mining: A case study of Sanyuan coal mine

Guangming Wu, Mingbin Wang, Lei Wang

published 06 Mar 2026

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Ethnographic meta-analysis shows that thermoregulation activities predict needle and awl use in North America

McKenna Lynn Litynski, Sean Field, Randall Haas

published 05 Mar 2026

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The Ypresian ichthyofauna of the Monte Solane Lagerstätte (Verona, northern Italy): A deep dive into the western Tethys early Eocene mesopelagic setting

Pietro Calzoni, Luca Giusberti, Eliana Fornaciari, Valeria Luciani, Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo, Massimo Bernardi, Riccardo Tomasoni, Giorgio Carnevale

published 04 Mar 2026

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Geochronological insights of middle miocene primates and vertebrate fauna of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Integrating litho- and magnetostratigraphy

Deepak Choudhary, Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Mohammad Arif, Sarvendra Pratap Singh, Kahsay Tesfay, Biren A. Patel, Wasim Abass Wazir, Rohit Kumar, Binita Phartiyal, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, Kongrailatpam Milankumar Sharma, Rajeev Patnaik

published 26 Feb 2026

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Integrated reconstruction of January and July temperature series in the Sanjiangyuan region during the Holocene

Yan Wang, Guangchao Cao, Guangliang Hou, Jian Ni, Tao Huang, Li Yan, Jinrong Hu

published 20 Jan 2026

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Diets and environments of late pleistocene pygmy and Columbian mammoths: Isotopic evidence from Southern California

Chance D. Hannold, Yang Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Regan Dunn, Jonathan Hoffman

published 07 Jan 2026

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A near-continuous archaeological record of Pleistocene human occupation at Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Basran Burhan, Budianto Hakim, Iwan Sumantri, Suryatman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Ratno Sardi, Hasliana, Muhammad Ramli, Linda Siagian, Andi Jusdi, Abdullah, Fardi Ali Syahdar, Hamrullah, Imran Ilyas, Putra Hudlinas Muhammad, Sofyan Setia Budi, Nur Ihsan Djindar, Shinatria Adhityatama, Rustan Lebe, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Irfan Mahmud, Akin Duli, Yinika L. Perston, Mark W. Moore, Mariana Sontag-González, Bo Li, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Maxime Aubert, Rainer Grün, David P. McGahan, Michelle C. Langley, Emma C. James, Tiina Manne, Ian Moffat, Brian Jones, Adam Brumm

published 23 Dec 2025

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A Late Pleistocene archaic human tooth from Gua Dagang (Trader’s Cave), Niah national park, Sarawak (Malaysia)

Darren Curnoe, Mohammed S. Sauffi, Hsiao Mei Goh, Xue-feng Sun, Roshan Peiris

published 10 Dec 2025

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Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest

Marie-Josée Angue Zogo, Isis Mesfin, Geoffroy de Saulieu, Wim Van Neer, Els Cornelissen, David Pleurdeau, Richard Oslisly

published 10 Dec 2025

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