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JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Volume 89, Issue -, Pages 57-70Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.002
Keywords
Middle Pleistocene interglacial; Palynology; Plant macro-remains; Environmental change; Archaeological horizons
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- Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage
- Ministry of Science and Culture, Hannover, Germany
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The Pleistocene sequence of Schoningen provides a key link between unglaciated and glaciated areas in western Central Europe and is an important point of reference for the subdivision of the glaciated late Middle Pleistocene. This locality yields paleoecological and geological evidence of at least four interglacial periods prior to the Holocene and younger than the Elsterian glaciation. The Pleistocene deposits at Schoningen are valuable archives of climate, landscape, and human evolution, containing outstanding information on past environmental changes and human adaptation. This paper presents paleoenvironmental and biostratigraphical results from the Middle Pleistocene archaeological lakeshore site of Schoningen, focusing on the so-called reference profile Schoningen 13 II of 2003. We discuss the lithological, palynological, and macrobotanical evidence and present a revised subdivision and reinterpretation of late phases of the Reinsdorf Interglacial. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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