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Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

HOUSE OF CARDS? A Call for Paradigm Shift in Archaeological Starch Research Could decades of ancient starch research be built on a house of cards? Archaeologists have long recovered microscopic sta...

Collaborative Research and Joint Management at Oldupai Gorge: A long-term partnership at Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania between palaeoanthropologists and the Maasai Advisory Council demonstrates how co...

Biodiversity hotspots in Earth’s mountain ranges suggest a strong connection between topographic development and biological processes. However, it remains unclear whether high biodiversity in mountain...

Presence of long-chain alkanes in rock raises new questions about possible existence of life billions of years ago

The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human polymorphism data, cob...

A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

The Human Fossil Record: A Digital Resource for Research and Education

What is Research Excellence? REF (Research Excellence Framework) The last decade has established the study of ancient proteins as a significant and useful addition to the arsenal of biomolecular metho...

The loess-paleosol sequences of Khovaling, southern Tajikistan preserve signatures of prehistoric human settlement during the Early Paleolithic. Archa…

To understand human practices and landscape evolution it is crucial to be able to trace evidence of past fires, notably in tropical environments. In such anthromes, phytoliths are generally well prese...

Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have been a subject of controversy in the scientific literature because it is assumed that fossilization results in the destruction of all organic components. I...

Space exploration has expanded the realm of geoscience to the outermost Solar System. A new generation of missions shines the way.

Scientific Reports - Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum

Bifacial tools discovered at about a hundred Lower Palaeolithic sites in the Bose Basin, southern China, have been previously dated to around 800,000 …

Finding biomarkers preserved in loess-paleosol sequences is challenging and rarely undertaken in the archaeological studies that occur in these settin…

C4 plants constitute a critical component in the modern ecosystem on the semi-arid Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), and the changes in their abundances an…

For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regardi...

Mid-Pleistocene climatic and ecological transitions and the formation of modern desert and loess landscapes and river networks emerge as critical events during the dispersal of early hominins in Palea...