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Geologic time

On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, Fulco Scherjon

published 22 Oct 2025

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Characteristics and genesis of permian chert in the middle and upper Yangtze Region, China

Da-zhi Zhang, Jin-xiong Luo, Bin Feng, You-bin He, Zhan Wen

published 17 Oct 2025

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Tracing Neanderthal mobility through the Romanian Carpathians: A GIS-based least-cost connectivity model

George Murătoreanu, Marian Cosac

published 10 Oct 2025

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Evolutionary history of the snooks: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the genus Centropomus

Gabryele Malcher, Thamires Oliveira, Paulo Ronaldo Ferreira, Lucila Melo, Patrícia Mendonça, Omar Dominguez-Dominguez, Arturo Angulo, Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García, Rocío Rodiles-Hernández, Péricles Sena do Rêgo, Juliana Araripe

published 09 Oct 2025

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Where did the river go? Testing the hypothesis of rivers discharging into the Gulf of Sirt (East Mediterranean) during the late Pleistocene

Barbara Mauz, Esam Abdulsamad, Saleh Emhanna, Noureddine Elmejdoub, Moez Mansoura, Michael Rogerson

published 08 Oct 2025

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Pressure knapping west of the Rhine during the Mesolithic? New evidence from Kerkhove (Belgium)

Hans Vandendriessche, Colas Guéret

published 24 Sep 2025

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Reconstructing flexible pathways of Aurignacian blade and bladelet production at Vogelherd

Benjamin Schürch, Svenja Schray, Nicholas J. Conard

published 16 Sep 2025

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The timing of the Castelnovisation of southwestern Europe: A Bayesian modelling insight from the Romagnano Loc III rock shelter sequence (Trento, Italy)

Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Alex Fontana, Vanessa Extrem-Membrado, Emilio Vacas-Fumero, Rossella Duches, Elisabetta Flor, Federica Fontana

published 16 Sep 2025

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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia)

Anđa Petrović, Jessica Bates, Aija Macāne, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little

published 10 Sep 2025

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A Later Stone Age quartz knapping workshop and fireplace dated to the Early Holocene in Senegal: The Ravin Blanc X site (RBX)

Charlotte Pruvost, Eric Huysecom, Aline Garnier, Irka Hajdas, Alexa Höhn, Laurent Lespez, Michel Rasse, Katja Douze, Sylvain Soriano, Valentine Fichet, Ségolène Saulnier-Copard, Matar Ndiaye, Anne Mayor

published 03 Sep 2025

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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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