Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary facies and their evolution in centre-south-eastern Sicily: a working hypothesis

Facies Analysis and Plio- Pleistocene Paleoecology

North Atlantic climate evolution through the Plio-Pleistocene climate transitions

Male strategies and Plio-Pleistocene archaeology.

Archaeological data are frequently cited in support of the idea that big game hunting drove the evolution of early Homo, mainly through its role in offspring provisioning. This argument has been disputed on two grounds: (1) ethnographic observations on modern foragers show that although hunting may contribute a large fraction of the overall diet, it is an unreliable day-to-day food source, purs...

Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild

We analyze functional richness and functional evenness of the carnivoran guild in eastern Africa from 3.5 Ma to 1.5 Ma, and compare them to the present day. The data consist of characters of the craniodental apparatus of 76 species of fossil and extant carnivorans, divided into four 0.5 Ma time slices from 3.5 to 1.5 Ma, together with the modern fauna. Focus is on large (>21.5 kg) carnivores. R...

Middle Permian Sedimentary Cycles and Facies Features in the Tieqiao Section in Laibin, Guangxi, South China

In the Late Paleozoic paleogeography, the Laibin area, South China, locates in the south-eastern margin of the Laibin-Heshan isolated carbonate platform. One global stratotype section for The Guadalupian–Lopingian (G/L) (The end of the Mid-Permian) transition is located in the Tieqiao section in Laibin area, which is regarded as appropriate one for the study. Based on the analysis, seven facies...