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25.11.2025
Hayrapetyan, N., Hakobyan, E., Kvavadze, E., Melkonian, M., Mamyan, A., Zhamakochyan, Bruch, A.A. & Gabrielyan, I.G. (2025): First record of fossil algal diversity in Lake Sevan, Armenia: Illuminating ecological dynamics and environmental parameters. Review of Paaobotany an Palynology 343, 105420. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2025.105420.
20.8.2025
Smith, Krister T., Bruch, Angela A. (2025): Persistent greenhouse conditions in Eocene North America point to lower climate sensitivity. Communications Earth & Environment & (1), p. 352. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02288-z.
25.06.2025
Bader, G. D., Sommer, C., Linstädter, J., Masia, D. P., Blessing, M. A., Forrester, B., & MacDonald, B. L. (2025): Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106302. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106302
Hallett, E.Y., Leonardi, M., Cerasoni, J.N., Will, M., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., Kandel, A.W., Manica, A., & Scerri, E.M. (2025): Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal. Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09154-0
05.06.2025
Christopher S. Beekman, Andrew W. Kandel, Joan Anton Barceló, Rachael Kiddey, Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré, Corey S. Ragsdale, Kouakou Sylvain Koffi, Gninin Aïcha Touré, Laura Mameli, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Christine Lee, Ibrahima Thiaw (2025): A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 78: 101667.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667
7.5.2025
Mata-Gonzales, M., Starkovich, B.M., Zeidi, M. & Conard, N.J. (2025): Prey choice and changes in site occupation intensity during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Ghar-e Boof (southern Zagros Mountains, Iran). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17:95. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02191-w.
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Luzi, E., Serangeli, J. & Conard, N.J. (2025): The secret of the lake. The role of fish during the Middle Pleistocene at Schöningen (northern Germany). Conference paper: Hugo Obermaier Society for Quaternary Research and Archaeology of the Stone Age, 66th Annual Meeting in Faro, Portugal. ISBN: 978-3-946387-62-6, pp. 27-28.
23.4.2025
Jarl, J., Gasparyan, B., Kandel, A.W., Smith, A., Bruch, A.A. (2025): A high-resolution paleoenvironmental record based on phytoliths from the Armenian Highlands: The Upper Paleolithic of Aghitu-3 Cave. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64, 105148. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105148.
Hertler, C., van der Geer, A.A.E., Puspaningrum, M.R., Reschke, J.-O., Anwar, I.P. & Hölzchen, E. (2025): Stegodon SEA-crossing: Swim, shrink, and disperse. Earth, History and Biodiversity 4, 100026. DOI: 10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100026.
Bruch, A.A., Kern, A.K., Stebich, M., Weitzel, N., Bolus, M. (2025): Large-scale vegetation shifts during substantial warming — Proxy-based biome reconstructions of MIS 6 and MIS 5e in Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews 356, 109308. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109308.