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The Subjection of Women Open
Part I: The Late Classics / Post-classic in Oaxaca - An Introduction Part II: Chronology, Continuity and Disjunction - Etic and Emic Perspectives Part III: Continuity and Abandonment of Houses in the Valley of Oaxaca - Lambityeco and Macui…
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Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang’e-5 Open
Sample return shows late lunar volcanism Measuring physical samples of Solar System bodies in the laboratory provides more information than is possible from remote sensing alone. In December 2020, the Chang’e-5 mission landed on the Moon, …
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The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0–31 ka BP) Open
We present the WD2014 chronology for the upper part (0–2850 m; 31.2 ka BP) of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide (WD) ice core. The chronology is based on counting of annual layers observed in the chemical, dust and electrical cond…
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Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years Open
Significance The variability of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) is important for the functioning of ecological and societal systems at regional to continental scales, but the long-term evolution and interannual variability of this system is…
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Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada Open
The Ice Free Corridor has been invoked as a route for Pleistocene human and animal dispersals between eastern Beringia and more southerly areas of North America. Despite the significance of the corridor, there are limited data for when and…
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Revised chronology of central Tibet uplift (Lunpola Basin) Open
Revised age control and paleoelevations reveal Eocene low central Tibet until ~26 Ma ago when an extensive plateau began to form.
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Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago Open
Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that underpin global population history. It has been argued that dispersal out of Afri…
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Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history Open
© 2020 Elsevier GmbH Climate reconstructions for the Common Era are compromised by the paucity of annually-resolved and absolutely-dated proxy records prior to medieval times. Where reconstructions are based on combinations of different cl…
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Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia Open
The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating of three newly excavated localities in the Mula basin of Murci…
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Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change Open
Significance A speleothem geochemical record from northern Iran captures significant climate fluctuations during the mid-to-late Holocene at high resolution. Two abrupt shifts in Mg/Ca last for more than a century and are interpreted as en…
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A high-precision chronological model for the decorated Upper Paleolithic cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche, France Open
Significance We compiled a set of more than 250 radiocarbon dates related to the rock art, human activities, and bone remains in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave (Ardèche, France) and derive a modeled absolute chronology of the human and cave b…
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Synchronizing the Greenland ice core and radiocarbon timescales over the Holocene – Bayesian wiggle-matching of cosmogenic radionuclide records Open
Investigations of past climate dynamics rely on accurate and precise chronologies of the employed climate reconstructions. The radiocarbon dating calibration curve (IntCal13) and the Greenland ice core chronology (GICC05) represent two of …
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Dating the Expansion of the Inca Empire: Bayesian Models from Ecuador and Argentina Open
The chronology of the Inca Empire has traditionally relied on ethnohistoric dates, which suggest that a northern expansion into modern Ecuador began in AD 1463 and a southern expansion into modern Argentina began in AD 1471. We test the va…
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The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene Open
Recent studies have shown that admixture has been pervasive throughout human history. While several methods exist for dating admixture in contemporary populations, they are not suitable for sparse, low coverage ancient genomic data. Thus, …
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Chronology of mitochondrial and cellular events during skeletal muscle ischemia-reperfusion Open
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common circulatory disorder of the lower limb arteries that reduces functional capacity and quality of life of patients. Despite relatively effective available treatments, PAD is a serious public health…
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Lead isotopes in silver reveal earliest Phoenician quest for metals in the west Mediterranean Open
Significance We offer here an answer to one of the most intriguing questions in ancient Mediterranean history: the timing/contexts and incentives of early Phoenician expansion to Mediterranean and Atlantic regions in Africa and Europe ∼3,0…
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Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain Open
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Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin Open
To address questions about the multiple lunar nearside–farside dichotomies and to provide new insights into both the early impact history of the Solar System and the geological evolution of the Moon, the Chang’e-6 (CE-6) landing zone has b…
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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal) Open
Significance We describe a recently discovered cranium from the Aroeira cave in Portugal dated to around 400 ka. This specimen is the westernmost Middle Pleistocene cranium of Europe and is one of the earliest fossils from this region asso…
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A new high-resolution chronology for the late Maastrichtian warming event: Establishing robust temporal links with the onset of Deccan volcanism Open
The late Maastrichtian warming event was defined by a global temperature increase of ∼2.5–5 °C that occurred ∼150–300 k.y. before the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. This transient warming event has traditionally been associat…
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The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis Open
Liang Bua, the type site of Homo floresiensis, is a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores with sedimentary deposits currently known to range in age from about 190 thousand years (ka) ago to the present. Recent revision of the s…
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Chronology of early Islamic glass compositions from Egypt Open
Compositional data of archaeological glasses offer an opportunity to trace the movement of materials in the ancient and medieval world. The lack of a comprehensive record of well-dated samples from Egypt, one of the major producers of glas…
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Mass Migration and the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand Open
This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing and nature of New Zealand's settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand's chronology show that the appearance of humans on the landscap…
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Evaluating the timing of former glacier expansions in the Tian Shan: A key step towards robust spatial correlations Open
The timing of past glaciation across the Tian Shan provides a proxy for past climate change in this critical area. Correlating glacial stages across the region is difficult but cosmogenic exposure ages have considerable potential. A drawba…
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A 2700-year annual timescale and accumulation history for an ice core from Roosevelt Island, West Antarctica Open
We present a 2700-year annually resolved chronology and snow accumulation history for the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) ice core, Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. The core adds information on past accumulation changes in an oth…
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Reconstructing 800 years of summer temperatures in Scotland from tree rings Open
This study presents a summer temperature reconstruction using Scots pine tree-ring chronologies for Scotland allowing the placement of current regional temperature changes in a longer-term context. ‘Living-tree’ chronologies were extended …
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Multi-proxy reconstructions of May–September precipitation field in China over the past 500 years Open
The dominant modes of variability of precipitation for the whole of China over the past millennium and the mechanism governing their spatial structure remain unclear. This is mainly due to insufficient high-resolution proxy records of prec…
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PLIOCENE-EARLY PLEISTOCENE ASTRONOMICALLY FORCED PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA ABUNDANCE FLUCTUATIONS AND CHRONOLOGY OF MEDITERRANEAN CALCAREOUS PLANKTON BIO-EVENTS Open
The absolute age estimates for calcareous plankton events proposed by the writer in a recent paper are discussed according to the new proposed paleomagnetic time scales. A re-interpretation of the sequence of lithological cycles recognized…
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A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic Open
Late Quaternary Northern Hemisphere ice volume variations influenced deep-sea methane release.
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Precise age for the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China from high-precision U-Pb geochronology and Bayesian age–depth modeling Open
This study is based on zircon U-Pb ages of 12 volcanic ash layers and volcanogenic sandstones from two deep water sections with conformable and continuous formational Permian–Triassic boundaries (PTBs) in the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China…