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Geologic time

Geoarchaeological research on site formation process, paleoenvironment, and human behaviors in the early Holocene of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Grzegorz Michalec, Rafał Sikora, Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Antoni Wójcik, Piotr Moska, Marcin Szmit, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka, Józef Szykulski, Patryk Muntowski, Andrzej Gałaś, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Mirosław Masojć

published 02 Sep 2025

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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory

Borja González-Rabanal, Marco Vidal-Cordasco, Jennifer R. Jones, Lucía Agudo Pérez, Eduardo Carmona-Ballestero, Belén López, Miguel Ángel Martín Merino, Ana Isabel Ortega, Lawrence G. Straus, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Cristina Vega-Maeso, Manuel R. González Morales, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo

published 28 Aug 2025

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A new large hypercarnivorous crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Southern Patagonia, Argentina

Fernando E. Novas, Diego Pol, Federico L. Agnolín, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Makoto Manabe, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Sebastián Rozadilla, Gabriel L. Lio, Marcelo P. Isasi

published 27 Aug 2025

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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya

Steven T. Goldstein, Natalie G. Mueller, Emma Finestone, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Jennifer M. Miller, Michelle C. Langley, Ricardo Fernandes, Axel Steinhof, Victor Iminjili, Christine Chepkorir, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin

published 20 Aug 2025

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A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)

Xiaoming Wang, Nikos Solounias, Su-kuan Hou, Lu Li, Yukimitsu Tomida

published 05 Aug 2025

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Historical availability of arable land affects contemporaneous female labor and health outcomes

Chandan Kumar Jha, Sudipta Sarangi

published 04 Aug 2025

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A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Phil R. Bell, Brian J. Pickles, Sarah C. Ashby, Issy E. Walker, Sally Hurst, Michael Rampe, Paul Durkin, Caleb M. Brown

published 23 Jul 2025

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Sequence–lithofacies paleogeographic evolution and its control on deep and ultra–deep reservoir types: A case study of the Permian Maokou Formation in northeastern Sichuan Basin

Xiandong Wang, Wancang Tan, Peng Lu, Ying Wang, Qiang Li, Liang Zhao, Pengfei Niu, Zhengyi Cang, Bao Gong, Jiagang Shen

published 01 Jul 2025

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Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece

Dalila De Caro, Moritz Kuhn, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Vangelis Tourloukis

published 30 Jun 2025

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Isotopes, herds, and landscape management practices: New insights on early farming communities in the Serpis Valley (Eastern Iberian Peninsula)

Vanessa Navarrete, Ismael Vaccaro, Pilar Escribá, Elena Grau, Oreto García-Puchol, Joan Bernabeu Aubán

published 27 Jun 2025

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Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400–year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates

Kevin Lidour, Noura Al Hameli, Rémy Crassard, Fabian D’Silva, Ahmed Al Haj

published 25 Jun 2025

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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland

Sahra Talamo, Nicole Casaccia, Michael P. Richards, Lukas Wacker, Laura Tassoni, Adam Nadachowski, Anna Kraszewska, Magda Kowal, Jakub Skłucki, Christopher Barrington, Monica Kelly, Frankie Tait, Mia Williams, Carla Figus, Antonino Vazzana, Ginevra Di Bernardo, Matteo Romandini, Giovanni Di Domenico, Stefano Benazzi, Cristina Malegori, Giorgia Sciutto, Paolo Oliveri, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Pontus Skoglund, Andrea Picin, Paweł Valde‑Nowak

published 25 Jun 2025

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Ediacaran-Cambrian paleosols of Nevada and California

Gregory J. Retallack

published 24 Jun 2025

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