The present paper analyses the evidence provided by three sites (Sima del Elefante, Gran
Dolina, and Galería) located in the Trinchera del Ferrocarril of the Sierra de Atapuerca. These …

… F. Burjachs thanks the FundacioHn Rich for a post-doctoral grant. MJ Walker thanks the
MEC for research project PB920971 and awards HB1992-104 and HB1995-0002 to undertake …

Since fire has been recognized as an essential disturbance in Mediterranean landscapes,
the study of long-term fire ecology has developed rapidly. We have reconstructed a sequence …

… f, Detail under environmental scanning electron microscope of one of the recorded cut marks
on a bovid mandible… Antón, F. Spoor and I. Tattersall provided comments on the manuscript. …

Recent, high-resolution palaeoecological records are changing the traditional picture of post-glacial
vegetation succession in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition to the influence of …

The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are currently
considered to have occurred as short and poorly dated biological dispersions. Questions …

The Abric Romani continental pollen record provides evidence of abrupt climate variations
during the last glaciation. The pollen record reveals a pattern of high-frequency variations …

Here we report the discovery of a new late Lower Pleistocene site named Vallparadís (Barcelona,
Spain) that produced a rich archeological and paleontological sequence dated from …

The sequence from Abric Romaní has provided several palaeoecological studies. This paper
presents a synthesis of the results yielded by palynology, including the data from the entire …

Sima del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain contains one of the earliest hominin fragments yet
known in Europe, dating to 1.2 Ma. Dental calculus from a hominin molar was removed, …