Ordination is the name given to a group of methods used analyse multiple variables without preceding hypotheses. Over last few decades, use these in Earth science general, and notably analyses sedimentary sources, has dramatically increased. However, with limited resources oriented towards scientists on topic, application ordination analysis at times suboptimal misuse by authors can occur. This...

A foraminiferal fauna similar to that in in southeastern Tasmania is documented from raised shallow-water sediment of 130-119 Ka age (Late Pleistocene; Marine Isotope 5e) at about 24m above modern sea level on White Rock Point. Foraminifera and sediment characteristics indicate that occurred in very shallow, highly oxygenated, high-energy marine conditions in an area of open circulation. There ...

Abstract This article presents the research on palaeoenvironmental changes that took place at end of Tardiglacial, in early and middle Holocene, observed sites anthropic origin central-eastern Cantabria. Through comparative analysis economy, settlement pattern, industries Azilian Mesolithic settlements, we try to infer repercussions they could have had last hunter-gatherers, order adapt modific...