Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of human evolution. Here we show that the Turkana Basin, Kenya--today one of the ...

Typical patterns of the Late Pleistocene loess–paleosol units are preserved in Novo Orahovo brickyard, Northern Serbia. Presented preliminary luminescence chronology supports chronostratigraphic interpretations global isotopic marine climate reconstructions. Magnetic susceptibility and sedimentological evidence exhibit general similarities with oxygen-isotope stratigraphy. These records provide...

Much of what we know about Quaternary climate has been learned from sedimentary records from the world’s oceans. With the exception of the extensive studies of the Chinese loess/paleosol sequence and more recent studies of long lake records, there are few long terrestrial climate records, particularly from the southern hemisphere. The loess record of Argentina provides an important opportunity ...