Archaeology

Researchers have reconstructed six stages of landscape evolution in Iran's hyper-arid Khur Basin, linking alluvial fans, dunes, and playas to...

Single-grain luminescence dating of drill cores from Austria's lower Salzach Valley shows the enigmatic Salzburger Seeton lake sediments were deposited...

Floodplain sediments of Germany's Kinzig River reveal that mining-driven deforestation and contamination shifted the river from natural to human control...

A drone-based re-examination of a ridge in Lesotho's high Drakensberg once cited as glacial evidence suggests it formed through rockfall,...

Cores from 10,000-year-old peatlands in Switzerland's Fimba Valley record Holocene cold events, including the 8.2 ka climate anomaly, alongside millennia...

A detailed study of the Rio Sella in northern Spain shows that only about a third of the catchment's rocks...

A first comprehensive quantification of sediment stored in Black Forest valleys reveals between 1.2 and 2.8 cubic kilometers of fill...

By combining high-resolution LiDAR terrain data with maps spanning the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, researchers have shown that Leipzig's Elster–Pleiße...

Researchers used early nineteenth-century military maps to reconstruct how barriers, channel straightening, and intensifying floodplain land use drove the decline...

Geomorphologists and historians have reconstructed the lost artificial Lake Lorsch, showing that sediments, channels and elevation data still record 500...