Cultural Cannibalism as a Paleoeconomic System in the European Lower Pleistocene

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-549 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Cultural Cannibalism

scholarly journals A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches of China

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Eric Buffetaut ◽  
Delphine Angst
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
North China ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Wide Geographical Distribution ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
The Crimea

A large incomplete ostrich femur from the Lower Pleistocene of North China, kept at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), is described. It was found by Father Emile Licent in 1925 in the Nihewan Formation (dated at about 1.8 Ma) of Hebei Province. On the basis of the minimum circumference of the shaft, a mass of 300 kg, twice that of a modern ostrich, was obtained. The bone is remarkably robust, more so than the femur of the more recent, Late Pleistocene, Struthio anderssoni from China, and resembles in that regard Pachystruthio Kretzoi, 1954, a genus known from the Lower Pleistocene of Hungary, Georgia and the Crimea, to which the Nihewan specimen is referred, as Pachystruthio indet. This find testifies to the wide geographical distribution of very massive ostriches in the Early Pleistocene of Eurasia. The giant ostrich from Nihewan was contemporaneous with the early hominins who inhabited that region in the Early Pleistocene.

Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Lower Pleistocene Stratigraphic Section in Sousaki Basin, Greece, Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Papadopoulou ◽  
George Iliopoulos ◽  
Maria Tsoni ◽  
Ioannis Koukouvelas ◽  
Petros Groumpos
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps ◽  
Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction ◽  
Stratigraphic Section ◽  
Lower Pleistocene

The Skull of Mylodon harlani from the Lower Pleistocene of West Texas

1937 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
C. Stuart Johnston
Keyword(s):  
West Texas ◽  
Lower Pleistocene

Pleistocene Terraces of the Alto Henares (Guadalajara), Spain

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Gladfelter
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Ebro Basin ◽  
Lower Paleolithic ◽  
Lower Pleistocene

A suite of four terraces in the upper Rio Henares drainage system (Rio Tajo basin) now provides a partial geomorphological link between the Middle Pleistocene, Lower Paleolithic archeological sites at Ambrona and Torralba (upper Ebro basin) and those in the vicinity of Madrid. The Campiña and Low Terrace features are shown by radiocarbon dating to be of Holocene and Würm ages, respectively, while the Middle and High Terraces are best designated as being Middle and Lower Pleistocene ages, respectively. Stratigraphic relationships between the upper and lower Rio Henares segments need to be established.

Eucladoceros montenegrensis n. sp. and other Cervidae from the Lower Pleistocene of Trlica (Montenegro)

2015 ◽  
Vol 389 ◽  
pp. 90-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan van der Made ◽  
Vesna Dimitrijević
Keyword(s):  
Lower Pleistocene

scholarly journals Signature pigments of green sulfur bacteria in lower Pleistocene deposits from the Banyoles lacustrine area (Spain)

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mallorquí ◽  
J.B. Arellano ◽  
C.M. Borrego ◽  
L.J. Garcia-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Green Sulfur Bacteria ◽  
Sulfur Bacteria ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Green Sulfur

Magnetostratigraphic characterization of a thick Lower Pleistocene lacustrine sequence from the Baza Basin (Betic Chain, Southern Spain)

1994 ◽  
Vol 85 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Oms ◽  
M. Garcés ◽  
J.M. Parés ◽  
J. Agustí ◽  
P. Anadón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Spain ◽  
Lower Pleistocene

Geometric morphometric analysis of different species of Cyprideis deriving from the Early Pleistocene record of Greece.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ypermachia Dimitriou ◽  
Penelope Papadopoulou ◽  
Maria Kolendrianou ◽  
Maria Tsoni ◽  
George Iliopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Geometric Morphometric ◽  
Representative Species ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Outline Analysis ◽  
Geometric Morphometric Analysis ◽  
The Right ◽  
Of Greece

<p>The genus Cyprideis is one of the most widespread ostracod representative of the Pleistocene brackish palaeoenvironments. Especially <em>Cyprideis torosa </em>is often found in great numbers and even in monospecific taphocoenoses and for this reason its study is very useful for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.  The identification of different species of Cyprideis is often complicated and needs careful morphology inspection. This becomes even more difficult in the case of endemic species which present significant similarities with each other.  In this work, we have studied and analyzed several  Cyprideis species (<em>C.torosa, C. frydaci, C.dictyoti, C. pannonica, C. elisabeta, C. seminulum, C. heterostigma</em>) deriving from brackish palaeoenvironments of a Lower Pleistocene marl sequence in Sousaki Basin (Northeastern Corinth Graben, Greece). More specifically size measurements and geometric morphometrics (lateral valve outline of both right and left valves as well as females and males) were used in order to attest the similarities and dissimilarities between the different species and draw conclusions about their origin.  According to the valve outline and the multivariate analysis a close relationship between the valve shape of all Cyprideis species can be noticed. <em>C. torosa</em> is commonly grouped with <em>C. pannonica</em> except in the male right valve where the two species show some differences.  The endemic species <em>C. frydaci</em> and <em>C. dictyoti</em> can be identified by the differences in the right valve of the male and female respectively.  The other species could not be substantially differentiated using just the outline analysis which possibly denotes their common genetic origin.  The valve outline has proved to be a very useful character for recognizing the different species especially when the two valves of both females and males are considered. More analyses of representative species of Miocene and Pliocene Cyprideis are needed in order to establish their phylogenetic relationships and draw conclusions about their common ancestor.</p>

The geochemistry of biogenic carbonates as a paleoenvironmental tool for the Lower Pleistocene Barranco León sequence (BL-5D, Baza Basin, Spain)

2015 ◽  
Vol 389 ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pere Anadón ◽  
Oriol Oms ◽  
Violeta Riera ◽  
Ramon Julià
Keyword(s):  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Biogenic Carbonates
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