Quaternary Science Reviews
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Elsevier Ltd (GB) |
| ISSN | 0277-3791 / 1873-457X |
| Scopus | 26239 |
| OpenAlex | S81424476 |
| Total publications | 190 |
| Coverage period | 1985 - 2020 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Impact factor | 6.579 |
| SJR | 1.36 (Q1) |
| Overton policy citations | 2 |
| Female authorship share | 34.5% |
Archeology · Archeology (arts and humanities) · Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics · Geology · Global and Planetary Change
The origins of Amazonian landscapes
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15 ∘ C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession. We quantitativel…
From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
Deglaciation of Fennoscandia
To provide a new reconstruction of the deglaciation of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, in the form of calendar-year time-slices, which are particularly useful for ice sheet modelling, we have compiled and synthesized published geomorphological data for eskers, ice-marginal formations, lineations, marginal meltwater channels, striae, ice-dammed lakes, and geochronological data from radiocarbon, varve, optically-stimulated luminescence, and cosmogenic…
Dietary shift after 3600 cal yr BP and its influencing factors in northwestern China
Taphonomy for taxonomists
Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500–3000) BC. Twenty terrestrial and 20 marine climate proxies are used to identify long-term trends in humidity involving transitions from humid to arid conditions and vice versa. The f…
Realising consilience
This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there ar…
Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia
The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Ancient Maya impacts on the Earth's surface
Early dispersals of maize and other food plants into the Southern Caribbean and Northeastern South America
Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake
The modern human colonization of western Eurasia
Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains challenging due to the scarcity of the palaeontological evidence and to the complexity of the archaeological record. Furthermore, key specimens have been discovered in the course of excavations that unfortunately did not meet today's archaeological standards. The importance of site-formation proces…
The climate of Europe during the Holocene
An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages
Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age
Firewood, food and human niche construction
Over the past few decades the potential role of Mesolithic hunter–gatherers in actively constructing their own niches, through the management of wild plants, has frequently been discussed. It is probable that Mesolithic hunter–gatherers systematically exploited specific woodland resources for food and fuel and influenced the ‘natural’ abundance or distribution of particular species within Mesolithic environments. Though there has been considerabl…
A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records
Due to their outstanding resolution and well-constrained chronologies, Greenland ice-core records provide a master record of past climatic changes throughout the Last Interglacial–Glacial cycle in the North Atlantic region. As part of the INTIMATE (INTegration of Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records) project, protocols have been proposed to ensure consistent and robust correlation between different records of past climate. A key element of th…
Climate variability and associated vegetation response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka
The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara
The timing and development of Holocene human occupation in the now hyperarid Sahara has major implications for understanding links between climate change, demography and cultural adaptation. Here we use summed probability distributions from 3287 calibrated 14C dates from 1011 archaeological sites to demonstrate a major and rapid demographic shift between 10,500 and 5500 years BP. This event corresponds with the African Humid Period (AHP) and is s…
Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa
Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years
Holocene semi-arid oak woodlands in the Irano-Anatolian region of Southwest Asia
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Paleoceanographic reconstructions of surface ocean conditions in the Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian seas through the last 14 ka based on diatoms
European lakes as palaeohydrological and palaeoclimatic indicators
Quaternary Proceedings
The vegetational history of the Balkans
The human colonisation of Australia
Dating raised bogs
High lodge
The nature, origin and accumulation of loess
Sea-land correlation of pollen records in the Eastern Mediterranean for the glacial-interglacial transition
The effects of disequilibria in the uranium and thorium decay chains on burial dose rates in fluvial sediments
Palaeolithic landscapes of Europe and environs, 150,000-25,000 years ago
The quaternary history of Scandinavia
The distribution of apparent dose as determined by Optically Stimulated Luminescence in small aliquots of fluvial quartzImplications for dating young sediments
The Holocene climatic optimum and pollen records of sapropel 1 in the eastern Mediterranean, 9000–6000BP
Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey
Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell
The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period
Palaeolimnological approaches to climate change, with special regard to the biological record
Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum
The history and variability of the East Asian paleomonsoon climate
Annual climate variability in the Holocene
The history of the origin, evolution and dispersal of the Late Pleistocene Mammuthus-Coelodonta faunal complex in Eurasia (large mammals)
Asynchronous Holocene optimum of the East Asian monsoon
River terrace systems in north-west Europe