Hansheng Wang , Tiantian Shen , Haoqi Chen , Xingwan Liu , Junsheng Nie
{"title":"Decoding climate cycles from the Red Clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau","authors":"Hansheng Wang , Tiantian Shen , Haoqi Chen , Xingwan Liu , Junsheng Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The loess-Red Clay sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) are encoded with past variations of East Asian monsoons. In comparison with the loess sequence, the Red Clay sequence has lower dust accumulation rate, older depositional ages and was deposited in a warmer climate. These factors result in stronger degree of mineral oxidation, lower content of fine ferrimagnetic minerals and higher content of hematite. Therefore, magnetic parameters widely used in the loess sequence, such as magnetic susceptibility, may not be as effective in indicating past precipitation in the Red Clay sequence. It is notoriously well known that Red Clay lacks precessional cycles, the most obvious period dominating summer insolation. Here we explore the potential of “hard’’ isothermal remanent magnetization (HIRM), a parameter estimating hematite content, in recording past climatic changes in the Red Clay sequence. In contrast with the magnetic susceptibility record which only shows prominent 1 Myr and eccentricity cycles, the HIRM record shows all orbital and their harmonic cycles. Intriguingly, we also detected multiple millennial cycles from HIRM and found the amplitude variations of multiple millennial cycles are controlled by precession, obliquity, and their amplitude modulators. This work extends detecting of precession and multiple millennial cycles from the CLP deposits back to the late Miocene for the first time and revolutionize our thinking regarding how East Asian summer monsoons varied based on the CLP records for the late Miocene-Pliocene interval.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109223"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jos Kleijne , Harald Lübke , Daniel Groß , Klaus Bokelmann , John Meadows
{"title":"Temporal patterns in Mesolithic activity at Duvensee, Germany","authors":"Jos Kleijne , Harald Lübke , Daniel Groß , Klaus Bokelmann , John Meadows","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Duvensee peat bog is one of the best-known prehistoric landscapes in northern Europe, with hunter-gatherer activities located on small islands on the western edge of an Early Holocene lake. Excellent organic preservation, precise excavation, and rigorous radiocarbon sample selection permit the application of Bayesian chronological modelling. Over 250 radiocarbon results date a dozen Mesolithic sites to an extended period between the 9th and 7th millennia BCE. Each site may only have been used briefly – perhaps only for a single season in some cases – but some were used repeatedly over the course of decades or even centuries. Site chronological models reveal sharp fluctuations in the overall level of recorded Mesolithic activity. A spike in the intensity and diversity of activity coincided with the rapid expansion of hazel (<em>Corylus avellana</em>) at the start of the Boreal biozone, but a steep decline in dated activity in the later 9th millennium BCE may be an artefact of changes in lake level, rather than reflecting a response to vegetation change, climate deterioration or societal reconfiguration. Although the Duvensee radiocarbon results can be construed to support arguments that rapid climate change had a significant impact on human activity, known climate events occurred when the record of human occupation at Duvensee was already discontinuous. It is therefore difficult to infer (or exclude) environmental factors as triggers of changes in the archaeological record. Our results suggest focusing research on the early Boreal phase, during which the widest range of site-types is preserved and accessible for archaeological investigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109230"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hailin Zhong , Can Zhang , Jingjing Sun , Zhengyu Xia , Zicheng Yu , Cheng Zhao
{"title":"Mid-to-late Holocene temperature variability in southwestern China","authors":"Hailin Zhong , Can Zhang , Jingjing Sun , Zhengyu Xia , Zicheng Yu , Cheng Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Southwestern China has been a significant area for human development during the mid-to-late Holocene, with human activities such as pastoralism, dairy farming, population migration, and population expansion being well documented. Climate change is considered a crucial factor that has influenced these developments. However, the overall pattern of temperature variations during this period remains unclear. Here we present a well-dated, high-resolution, quantitative temperature reconstruction based on a branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) proxy for the last ∼5000 years from a high-elevation peatland in southwestern China. Our record reveals a general warming trend during the mid-to-late Holocene. It also captures multicentennial-scale climate events, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA). To better understand the pattern of mid-to-late Holocene temperature changes from existing paleoclimate records in southwestern China, we further compiled and analyzed 19 high-quality quantitative paleotemperature records in this region and the nearby Tibetan Plateau. The results reveal that temperature records from high-elevation sites (>3000 m above sea level) generally display an overall warming trend, whereas temperature records from low-elevation sites (<3000 m above sea level) generally show an overall cooling trend. We speculate that the reconstructed temperature records from low-elevation areas might be affected by human activities. In addition, we analyzed 9 records from a sub-region of southwestern China with adequate temporal-resolution and chronological controls to evaluate multicentennial-scale fluctuations over the past millennium. We find that most records show pronounced shifts during the MWP and LIA. Our results emphasized that human disturbances may affect the seasonal bias of reconstructed temperature, highlighting the necessity of carefully evaluating the effects of potential human influences on paleoclimate proxies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109231"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143282723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Heredia , S. Guédron , A.T. Gourlan , B. Helly , H. Delile , L. Calzolari , S. Campillo , S. Santenac , L. Audin , P. Telouk , F. Albarede
{"title":"Provenance of lead ores used for water pipes production in the ancient Roman Gaul (Vienne, France)","authors":"C. Heredia , S. Guédron , A.T. Gourlan , B. Helly , H. Delile , L. Calzolari , S. Campillo , S. Santenac , L. Audin , P. Telouk , F. Albarede","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The urban fabric of Roman cities developed through the installation of water supply networks, mainly made of lead (Pb). In Gaul, the city of Vienne (France) was central to the manufacturing of Pb artifacts, including large volumes of Pb water pipes. Although Pb artifacts were often labeled with Roman-period stamps indicating the location of manufacturing, our knowledge of the provenance of extracted Pb ore and the way they were imported remains limited. In this study, Roman-period artifacts were analyzed for Pb isotope signatures to document the source of Pb ore used in Vienne's manufactories. Lead isotope signatures were then compared with new local Pb ores data and an updated Pb isotope database using a new algorithm to identify the provenance of Pb. Results indicate that Pb used for artifact manufacturing at Vienne originates mainly from a single source. Data treatment with the new algorithm identifies the Rhenish Massif and the Pennines mining regions as the primary and most probable source, but some artifacts exhibit a similar isotope composition to that of local Pb ores. The similarity of the Pb isotopic signatures of the artifacts produced in Vienne with those of Mainz pipes and lead ingots from the Rhenish massif, as well as the synchronicity of the mining periods in this region, support the Rhenish Massif as the most likely source of Pb for Vienne. Finally, we propose the Rhine and Saone Rivers as the most probable Pb ores conveyance routes to Vienne during the Roman Period.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntheses of pollen-based temperature reconstructions with respect to seasonal and spatiotemporal change in Europe","authors":"Rongwei Geng , Mara Weinelt , Wenchao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Holocene climate change plays a significant role in understanding the climate-human-environment interactions and predicting the future climate change. The Holocene temperature conundrum is one of the most debated topics, induced by the inconsistent results from reconstructed proxy records and climate simulation. The possible reason for this conundrum regarding proxy-based records is the potential bias of reconstructed temperatures towards summer conditions. Therefore, reconstructions of seasonal temperatures in different regions are crucial for solving the Holocene temperature conundrum. Pollen assemblages provide by far the most widely available proxies to reconstruct the Holocene climate change. Yet a synthesized record of the Holocene temperature reconstruction in Europe based on a sound integrated pollen compilation is still lacking. Here, we reconstruct the annual and seasonal temperature changes in Europe during the Holocene using different methods based on a large amount of fossil pollen records and analyze them using the whole and latitudinal synthesized subsets to investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics and to identify the driving mechanism of temperature changes. The annual and seasonal temperature reconstructions over the course of the Holocene in Europe show a general trend with a cold early Holocene towards a megathermal from early to middle Holocene followed by a slight cooling towards the present. A pervasive cold event can be observed at around 8 ka BP. The megathermal of the annual and summer temperature occurred earlier in the southern area (south of 50°N) than in the northern area (north of 50°N). The higher northern latitudes show more pronounced temperature variability. The driving mechanism of temperature change in Europe is also investigated by a comparison with the results of the TraCE-21ka simulation under full and single forcings during the Holocene, suggesting that European temperature is mainly controlled by orbital forcing, but is also influenced by other forcings such as ice sheet melting and atmospheric circulations. The consistency of the overall annual and seasonal temperature trends in the pollen-based reconstruction and the model simulation corroborates the reliability of our reconstruction results. This study provides synthesized results of Holocene seasonal temperature change at a pan-European scale for further understanding of the Holocene temperature conundrum and explores more about the latitudinal and seasonal temperature differences in Europe compared to the previous global and local reconstructions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109228"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongrui Zhang , Chuanlian Liu , Iván Hernández‐Almeida , Luz María Mejía , Haowen Dang , Heather M. Stoll
{"title":"Heterochrony of Mid-Brunhes coccolithophore bloom reveals multi-processes controlling ocean nutrient","authors":"Hongrui Zhang , Chuanlian Liu , Iván Hernández‐Almeida , Luz María Mejía , Haowen Dang , Heather M. Stoll","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Periodic ∼405 thousand-year (kyr) variations in the ocean carbon cycle, manifest in carbonate dissolution and benthic carbon isotope, have been observed throughout the Cenozoic but the driving mechanisms remain under debate. Some evidence suggests that coccolithophore bloom events potentially contribute to these ∼405 kyr oscillations. However, there is no consensus on the mechanism responsible for these blooms. In this study, we investigate the timing and spatial pattern of the coccolithophore bloom events during the Mid-Brunhes period. We find that the peaks of coccolithophore productivity in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean are centered at ∼480-430 ka, whereas peaks of coccolithophore productivity in the Western Pacific are centered at ∼350 kyr. We propose a dual high and low latitude control on blooms whereby, at eccentricity minimum, increased high-latitude diatom silica consumption lowers the seawater Si/P, decreasing the competitiveness of diatoms and resulting in a global coccolithophore bloom. Subsequently, as eccentricity increased, stronger tropical monsoons fueled coccolithophore productivity extending coccolithophore bloom in tropical oceans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 109226"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The deposits of reddish impasto “olle”: Archaeological reality and possible interpretations","authors":"Tomaso Di Fraia , Francesco di Gennaro","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For a long time, reference has been made to the so-called \"giacimenti a olle rossicce\", hypothetically linking them to salt production through <em>briquetage</em> or some treatment with salt for specific products. This interpretation of this class of archaeological artifacts has been accepted by many scholars without rigorous analysis. However, the hypothesis of using medium-large “olle” for salt production by boiling brine is not supported by evidence in sites where briquetage is certainly present. Conversely, the distinctive elements of <em>briquetage</em> are entirely absent in our deposits of reddish “olle”. The intentional breakage of containers has never been demonstrated archaeologically and contradicts the results of some experiments. Finally, color does not seem to be a significant aspect.</div><div>The coarse pottery in question, locally produced, was intended for on-site use both as a container for cooking or treating specific products and for storing these products, and probably the salt obtained by natural evaporation. Ultimately, these containers were filled for delivery to carriers or end consumers.</div><div>The sudden increase in \"reddish olle deposits\" along the mid-tyrrhenian coasts during the initial period of the Early Iron Age corresponds to the consolidation phase of proto-state units in Etruria. Subsequent trade now occurs along radial lines connecting central hubs to peripheral functional settlements, located at border nodes or along the coast. In this scenario, salt must have assumed central importance, meeting the needs of internal territories and its use in coastal sites for the preservation industry.</div><div>From the moment the urban and statal system enabled the organization of maritime traffic in a stable and propulsive manner, a significant destination for food preparations, treated or not with salt, and certainly handled in clay containers that often facilitated their preparation in coastal installations, was the supply of food on board for the nutritional needs of the crews.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"349 ","pages":"Article 108998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaochao Che , Fei Han , Xingsheng Zhang , Bo Cao , Ping Xiao , Guanjun Shen , Jianxin Zhao
{"title":"High-precision U-series dating of Panxian Dadong hominin site, Guizhou Province, southwestern China","authors":"Xiaochao Che , Fei Han , Xingsheng Zhang , Bo Cao , Ping Xiao , Guanjun Shen , Jianxin Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Panxian Dadong, an important hominin cave site in Guizhou Province, southwestern China, has yielded significant discoveries, including four hominin teeth, thousands of stone artifacts and abundant mammalian fossils. Previous dating efforts, such as preliminary U-series dating of speleothem samples with alpha spectrometry, subsequent coupled ESR/U-Th dating of fossil teeth, and OSL dating of sediments yielded broadly consistent age results. These studies have widely placed the site within late Middle Pleistocene. In this study, we present updated systematic U-Th dating results obtained using high-precision multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS). The new data reveal that speleothem samples from bottom to top in Areas A and C yielded age ranges of 389 to 96 ka and 418 to 33 ka, respectively. In particular, Layer I in Area C was dated to 100-33 ka, indicating that human occupation of the site extended into the Late Pleistocene. A Bayesian analysis refined the age constraints for the hominin fossil-containing Layers VII-II in Area C to approximately ∼320-113 ka, suggesting an earlier dispersal to the region, potentially representing Denisovans or the recently proposed <em>Homo juluensis</em>. Additionally, the artifact-bearing deposits between the fourth and third flowstone layers in Area A, were dated to 389-285 ka, establishing Panxian Dadong as one of the earliest hominin settlement sites in southwestern China during the Middle Pleistocene.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"349 ","pages":"Article 109149"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frédéric Guiter , Stéphane Guédron , Vincent Perrot , Elodie Brisset , Sarah Bureau , Marina Renedo , Sylvain Campillo , Dahvya Belkacem , Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu , Carole Desplanque , Antonio Martínez-Cortizas
{"title":"From lake to bog: A 15 kyr record of interplay between landscape changes and mercury accumulation (Réserve Naturelle du Luitel, 1250 m a. s. l., western Alps)","authors":"Frédéric Guiter , Stéphane Guédron , Vincent Perrot , Elodie Brisset , Sarah Bureau , Marina Renedo , Sylvain Campillo , Dahvya Belkacem , Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu , Carole Desplanque , Antonio Martínez-Cortizas","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lakes and peatlands are valuable archives for reconstructing past environmental dynamics. Multiproxy studies strive to unravel the complexity of interactions between factors influencing the past evolution of landscapes, including ecosystem dynamics, geomorphological trajectories, palaeoclimatic variability and past human activities.</div><div>This study presents a unique 15,000-year multiproxy record detailing the transition of an alpine landscape from a lacustrine environment to a peatland ecosystem. The combination of high-resolution pollen analysis, inorganic trace elements measurements, and organic matter (OM) characterization by FTIR-ATR enables the connection of vegetation dynamics over time with its role in regulating soil (in)organic matter fluxes, including elements such as mercury (Hg).</div><div>The results indicate that wet and warm climate episodes, such as the mid Holocene climate optimum, significantly enhance mercury uptake by vegetation and lake primary producers. This process is followed by Hg accumulation in the lacustrine environment, closely associated with fresh organic matter. In contrast, during cold and arid climatic periods, such as the Late Glacial, Hg uptake decreases in both the catchment and lake ecosystems. This reduction, coupled with dilution by minerogenic inputs, leads to lower Hg accumulation in the lake. Throughout the Holocene, the lake gradually transitions into a peatland. From the early to mid-Holocene, Hg accumulation is driven by a combination of lacustrine biological pumping, foliar uptake, and atmospheric deposition. Around ca 4500 cal a BP, the disappearance of catchment contribution to the archive drastically changes the interpretation of the mercury signal, which becomes primarily driven by the uptake of atmospheric Hg by bog vegetation. Mercury accumulation is therefore mainly controlled by changes in Hg deposition or re-emissions, lake and peat development and OM humification. Finally, during the Late Holocene, local forest ecosystems decline, as pasturelands develop in the area. The natural Hg signal is also partially obscured by the effects of regional mining activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"349 ","pages":"Article 109088"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}