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Authors attempting to connect the facts of relatively high resistance to COVID-19 on Central Caucasus territory with neanderthals heredity. The resistance to Asian pathogens among neanderthals seems to developed in community lived... more
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      Prehistoric Archaeology, Paleontology, Neandertals, Refugia
ABSTRACT Internal waves occur nearly ubiquitously in lakes and oceans yet their sedimentary records remain largely unrecognized. Waves propagate at the interface between fluids of different densities. Surface waves propagate at the... more
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      Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Carbonate Sedimentology
L’interazione tra esseri viventi e ambiente è notoriamente oggetto di studio della biologia evoluzionistica; tuttavia, la prospettiva di ricerca inaugurata dalla niche-construction perspective entra di fatto in contrasto con la più... more
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      Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, Philosophical Biology, Evolutionary Ecology
It was in 1972 when Thomas J. Schopf (Fig. 1) and a bunch of fellows thought the time was ripe to thrust their paleontological form of mind into the body of evolutionary biology. It all started with a Symposium in 1970, and then a book,... more
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      Paleobiology, Paleontology, History of Science, History of the Mediterranean
Sono raccolti i primi articoli della rivista "Il Radiologo" (2010-2018). La paleoradiologia si usa per rispondere alle domande che l’antichità – o meglio il passato, talvolta anche quello prossimo – ci pone. A queste domande rispondono,... more
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      Paleontology, Radiology, Imaging Science, Archeologia
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      Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History, Prehistoric Archaeology
... Ciancio published a number of scientific papers dealing with Fortis' biography [6], style and methods of scientific research [2], relationship between Fortis and other important 18th-century scientists and naturalists [4],... more
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      History, Geology, Mineralogy, Paleontology
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      Paleontology, Mexico, Dinosaurs, Disasters
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      Prehistoric Archaeology, Paleontology, Settlement Patterns, Medieval Scandinavia
Caminando sobre gliptodontes es una guía didáctica para comprender la evolución de la vida en la Tierra. Es una guía porque encamina; es didáctica porque ofrece una caja de herramientas adecuadas para enseñar y, en consecuencia, conocer... more
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      Paleontology, Education, Teacher Education, Science Education
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      Geology, Paleontology, Comics, Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros
This chapter deals with fishing and archaeology. Knowledge held by fishermen has contributed to underwater archaeology's great moments. It is comparable to 'local' knowledge on land, although the locales may be far offshore. To some... more
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      Archaeology, Paleontology, Fishing, Underwater Cultural Heritage
La palabra fósil, que deriva del latín fossilis, fue empleada por Plinio (23-79 dC) para designar los objetos enterrados. En la actualidad, se refiere a evidencias de la vida en el pasado geológico, que presentan una estructura de origen... more
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      Paleontology, History of Paleontology, Chile, Fossils
Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar overlooking the Río Quípar, a Río Segura tributary, is an upland rock-shelter 75 km north of the Mediterranean coast and 110 km west of the Segura river-mouth. It contains undisturbed sediment 5 m... more
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      Paleontology, Human Evolution, Palaeolithic Archaeology, Archaeological Soil Micromorphology
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      Paleontology, Vertebrate Paleontology, South Africa, Paleozoic Vertebrates
For years, scientists have been puzzled by the mysterious "sailing stones" of Death Valley. Located in a remote area of California's Death Valley National Park, the heavy stones appear to move across the dried lake bed known as Racetrack... more
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      Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History, Paleobiology
In marine geology, a guyot (also known as a tablemount) is an isolated underwater table mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than 200 m (660 ft) below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed 10 km (6.2... more
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      History, Ancient History, Marine Biology, Geology
Nel presente contributo sono trattati e discussi per la prima volta in modo sistematico e organico gli elementi geologici rintracciabili nell'opera Il Tesoro di Brunetto Latini. Oltre riferimenti strettamente geologici, nel testo sono... more
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      Geology, Paleontology, History of Geology
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      History, Ancient History, Prehistoric Archaeology, Paleontology
The reason for the extinction of the Neandertals in Western Europe, and especially the question of whether AMH played an active role in their demise, is one of the most controversial issues in prehistoric research. This thesis aims to... more
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      Paleoanthropology, Paleontology, Paleolithic Europe, Quaternary