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Past Practice and Future Prospects in Coastal Environmental Reconstructions

edited by

Gemma Aiello

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7789 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal environments; marine depositional systems; facies analysis; seismic and sequence stratigraphy; sedimentary record; human settlements; geoarcheology; coastal hazard; GIS studies in coastal areas; micropaleontology; sedimentology; tephrostratigraphy

Best Practices in Luminescence Dating of Challenging Sedimentary Archives

edited by

Daniele Sechi

Stefano Andreucci

and

Giulia Cossu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: luminescence dating; challenging sedimentary contexts; best practices; age modeling; methodological innovation

Archaeology in the Late Quaternary: Emerging Materials, Methods, Issues and Perspectives

edited by Yong Ge

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3072 | Submission Open

Keywords: archaeology; archaeobotany; archaeometry; stone tools; artefacts

Advances in Paleopathology and Paleohistology in Quaternary Vertebrates

edited by

Maria Rita Palombo

Marco Zedda

Ramona Babosova

and Vijay Sathé

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1082 | Submission Open

Keywords: Quaternary; pathology; bone tissues; histology; mammals; reptiles; Aves; life history; extinction

Quaternary Birds of the Planet of First, Ancient and Modern Humans

edited by

Zlatozar Boev

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1467 | Submission Open

Keywords: diversity; extinction; utilization; art; resource; ranges; domestication; decline

From Source to Sink: Sedimentary Archives and Its Palaeo-Environmental Implications During Quaternary

edited by Yan Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1552 | Submission Open

Keywords: sedimentology; seismic and sequence stratigraphy; chronology; facies analysis; sedimentary record; catastrophic sedimentation; micropaleontology sedimentology

Paleoecology, Evolution, Biogeography and Systematics of Quaternary Mammals

edited by

H. Gregory McDonald

and Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales

submission deadline 10 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5058 | Submission Open

Keywords: paleoecology; mammals; stable isotopes; extinction; biogeography; paleoclimate; morphology; trace fossils

Interdisciplinary Research into Cultural and Biological Transformations in the Paleolithic Period: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ran Barkai

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 424 | Submission Open

Keywords: paleolithic; transformations; adaptation; cultural and biological evolution; lithic technologies; human evolution; faunal turnovers; symbolic behavior

Event Deposition and Its Geological and Climatic Implications

edited by Lei Zhang, Chunqing Sun and Shuang Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open

Keywords: event stratigraphy; volcanic eruption events; paleoseismic events; paleoflood events; paleolandslide; drought events

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