#pleistocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleistocene, aggregated by home.social.
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La cenere sotto la torba del Pacifico, segno di un villaggio 100 secoli più antico delle piramidi di Giza
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=45110#archeologia #preistoria #pleistocene #ricerca #studio #antropologia #popoli #antichità #siti #scavi #isole #canada #columbiabritannica #costa #nordamerica #ipotesi #insediamenti #villaggi #reperti #misteri #civiltà
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Three New Species of #Fossil Kangaroos Discovered in Australia and New Guinea https://www.sci.news/paleontology/protemnodon-kangaroos-12857.html
Systematics and #palaeobiology of #kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) https://mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.11.1.1
"The three #NewSpecies belong to the extinct #kangaroo genus #Protemnodon, which were common members of #Cenozoic communities across #Australia and #NewGuinea until their #extinction in the Late #Pleistocene."
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Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418 <-- shared paper
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[By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
#australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene -
https://youtu.be/WfUqBuJCh_w In 📆 2018, viable #nematodes 🐛 from late #Pleistocene were discovered that had remained in #SuspendedAnimation for 46,000 years ⌛ in Siberian permafrost. The longest term #cryptobiosis is the case of a #Bacillus spore preserved in the abdomen of #bees 🐝 buried in amber for 25 to 40 million years. https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/biology/cryptobiosis-suspension-of-life-over-geological-time-scales-has-significance-for-evolution/
#Hibernation in primates : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation#Primates