Showing papers in "Quaternary International in 2005"

TL;DR: In this article, multi-proxy analysis of a sediment core from Qinghai Lake, including pollen, carbonate, TOC, TN and δ 13 C of organic matter, was used to document regional climatic changes during the last 18,000 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the published equilibrium-line altitude (ELA) estimates for tropical and sub-tropical glaciers at the LGM, reflecting the diversity of methods and approaches employed by different research groups and emphasises the need for standardised methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the mass balance/altitude relationship between glaciers is used to estimate the Equilibrium Line Altitude of present or former glaciers from morphometric data (as distinct from direct observations of the glacier mass balance).

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated palaeoecological study of two fiord sediment sequences in the province of Blekinge, SE Sweden, covering the time span 11,000-5000 cal BP, reveal the timing and the environment for the Ancylus Lake/Littorina Sea transition 9800-8500 cal BP.

TL;DR: The authors concluded that the assimilation model is the best explanation for the origin of anatomically modern humans in Europe, if Neandertals are assimilated into in-migrating populations of modern people in Europe.

TL;DR: Mammoth evolution in Eurasia represents one of the best-studied examples of evolutionary pattern and process in the terrestrial fossil record, and a pervasive belief in the gradual transformation of chronospecies in Europe is giving way to a more complex model incorporating geographical variation across the whole of northern Eurasia, casting doubt on biostratigraphic deductions.

TL;DR: The Isernia travertines are not associated with hot water springs and indicate that the area was frequented at the end of an Interglacial period as discussed by the authors, which indicates that the human frequentation occurred at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure and optically stimulated luminescence dating to define the timing of glaciation and these, together with objective analysis of glacier dynamics, may allow better estimates of ELA changes in the future, but only two regions (the Hunza Valley and the Khumbu Himal) are sufficiently well dated to allow reconstructions of Last Glacial Maximum glacier extent and hence ELAs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors recognized 175 species and subspecies of proboscideans, classified in 42 genera and 10 families, including three extant species: forest African elephant, African elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and Asian elephant.

TL;DR: In this article, the past displacement and location of the arid-semiarid region (ASR) between 32° and 52°S in Argentina is analyzed using 42 published pollen records to gain a better understanding of Holocene climate variability.

TL;DR: Evidence from stable isotopes, faunal remains, and the paleopathology of human skeletons suggest that Neandertals consumed a low diversity diet centered on large and medium-sized terrestrial herbivores, while populations of early AMHS consumed a slightly more diversified diet.

TL;DR: In this paper, Mammuthus primigenius and Palaeoloxodon antiquus became extinct in the Last Glacial-Interglacial cycle, but they had very different ecologies, times of extinction and last stands in different regions.

TL;DR: The cold-temperature adaptations of Neanderthals, such as their robusticity and limb proportions, are considered in the light of the interpretations of similar traits in other animals in the Late Pleistocene.

TL;DR: In a recent study, this article found that the small Stegomastodon waringi showed an adaptive trend from mixed-feeder to grazer, while the large Stegmastodon platensis showed a change from mixed to browser feeding.

TL;DR: A taphonomic analysis of the faunal assemblages from the 1993-1999 excavations at Ambrona (Spain) is presented by Santonja and Perez-Gonzalez as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extracted information on glacier equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) for over 350 glacier-valley localities during the Late Quaternary and found that about 60% of the intra-regional variability observed change in ELA between the LGM and today is related to headwall altitude, reflecting the influence of basin morphometry on the response to climate change.

TL;DR: The Italian elephant fossil record clearly shows the influence of climatic, physiographic and paleogeographic conditions on the pattern of occurrence and dispersal of this mammal group in Southern Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the use of Proboscidean remains in every day Palaeolithic life is presented, in an attempt to illuminate some aspects of the relationship between proboscideans and humans from an archaeological perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare two pairs of adjacent lacustrine and eolian sections at sites in the southern and northern Mongolian Plateaus in order to test spatial climate variability during the Holocene.

TL;DR: A detailed tephrochronology for the Last Glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT; ca. 15,000-10,000 cal. yr BP) and the Holocene has been found in south and central Sweden.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the accumulation area balance ratio (AABR), accumulation area ratio (AAR), toe-to-headwall altitude ratio (THAR), and the maximum altitude of lateral moraine (MALM) methods to determine the equilibrium line altitude (ELA) estimates for the last glacial maximum (LGM) paleoglaciers in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela.

TL;DR: In this article, the Ebro River basin has been studied for the first time and the results of the analysis of full and Lateglacial landscapes in the region were presented.

TL;DR: This article reviewed and compared relevant aspects of the records from Europe and Africa, and then focused on the Iberian Peninsula, to highlight the arbitrary nature of our concept of an MP-UP transition.

TL;DR: The relative abundances of Siberian spruce (Picea obovata) and total arboreal pollen in pollen spectra from the Lake Baikal region and calculation of a steppe-forest vegetation index place constraints on the past climatic conditions related to permafrost, summer temperatures, precipitation and soil moisture availability as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the Lateglacial and Holocene water-table evolution along the West Pomeranian coast, which is related to the four evolutionary stages of the Baltic Sea: the Baltic Ice Lake, the Yoldia Sea, the Ancylus Lake and the Littorina Sea, is given in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, photosynthetic pigments, total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) were analyzed in two radiocarbon-dated sediment cores of Lake Hovsgol, NW Mongolia, covering the period of the last glacial/postglacial transition since 23 14C ka.

TL;DR: A rich organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst and pollen record from the Licze borehole in northern Poland has been used to reconstruct the hydrographic history of the southeastern Baltic Sea during the Last Interglacial (Eemian Stage, Late Pleistocene) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of the literature providing radiocarbon-dated localities for mammoths provides a range of temporal and geographic distribution for the genus in North America as mentioned in this paper, including Alaska, Canada, United States, and Mexico.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 15 gravity cores reveals consistent patterns of lithologic change throughout the Lake Hovsgol basin, and evidence for lake-level change suggest that Lake HOVsgol may in fact serve as a sensitive "water gauge" in continental interior Asia and that the sedimentary record preserves reliable proxies for past changes in effective moisture balance in the Lake Baikal catchment area.

TL;DR: In this article, a synthesis and an integration of the current knowledge on Pleistocene mammals from the main Mediterranean islands is presented, which enables us to consider faunal complexes, paleobiodiversity, degree of endemism and ways of dispersals into a chronological frame.