Growth and development are both fundamental components of demographic structure and
life history strategy. Together with information about developmental timing they ultimately …

The recovery at Shi’bat Dihya 1 (SD1) of a dense Middle Paleolithic human occupation dated
to 55 ka BP sheds new light on the role of the Arabian Peninsula at the time of the alleged …

Taxonomic over-splitting of extinct or endangered taxa, due to an incomplete knowledge of
both skeletal morphological variability and the geographical ranges of past populations, …

This paper provides the sedimentological, palaeontological and biostratigraphical characteristics
of a newly discovered lignite-bearing sedimentary succession in western France. The …

… Christopher J. Duffin is warmly thanked for improving the English style. We are grateful to
Adam Halamsky and Magdalena Borsuk-Bialynicka for access to specimens in their care at the …

Paléobiodiversité des vertébrés du Lagerstätte du Crétacé inférieur (Berriasien) d'Angeac-Charente
(sud-ouest de la France), implications pour le renouvellement faunique continental …

… Excavations were first run by JF Tournepiche in 1999 and then from 2003 to 2006 (… site,
but their distinction was not always possible on the field (Tournepiche et al., 2005). Thus, large …

We describe a human partial femoral shaft discovered during speleological exploration of
the “grotte de la Tour”, near the prehistoric site of La Chaise-de-Vouthon (Charente, France). …

Numerous palaeontological sites containing bear hibernation levels are developed in
Europe during the Quaternary. These particular assemblages allowed researchers to study …

… A Late Pleistocene date of 32000 ± 900 BP was obtained from the first excavations directed
by J. Descout between 1965 and 1972. Recent excavations obtained dates between 29400 …