Archaeology

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...

Cosmogenic beryllium-10 measurements in the Roda Catchment of central Germany show that ice-age periglacial processes, not modern human activity, dominate...

Faint vegetation stripes in satellite images near Mannheim led researchers to hand-dug clay mines from 1865, hidden in a silted-up...