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How did the #intensity of #wildfires change throughout the past in one of the coldest regions in the world? 🔥❄️📉

To answer this question, we used #BPCAs from sediment samples from #Yakutia, #Siberia. Find our results, now published open access, here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818126000299

@wildfirescience @paleofire @ecology @academicchatter #paleofire #siberia #paleoecology #newresearch

Nina Davtian Nov 28, 2024

And now, the Version of Record of my latest co-authored #scientific #publication led by Juan Ochando is out in #Quaternary Science Reviews:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025
#Science
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#Paper #OpenAccess
#Archaeology #Paleoecology #Geochemistry #Palynology #Neandertal #Experiment
#Gibraltar #Cave #Hearth #Tar
#Biomarkers #Levoglucosan #PAHs #Retene #BPCAs #PyrogenicCarbon #Pollen #Phytoliths
https://mastodon.world/@nina_davtian/113554601654347588

A Neanderthal's specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention

Here we present multiproxy evidence of a new type of Neanderthal hearth discovered in Vanguard Cave (VC) (Gibraltar), which is dated ∼ 65 kyr, and ass…

Nina Davtian Nov 20, 2024

Isn’t it cool, as a paleoclimate #scientist, to co-author this new #archaeological #scientific #publication first-authored by Juan Ochando?
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025
With Belen Martrat and Barend van Drooge at IDAEA-CSIC and Joan Villanueva, Oriol Teruel, and me at ICTA-UAB.
More information in the following #thread: 👇🏻 (1/11)
#Science
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#Paper #OpenAccess
#Archaeology #Neandertal #Experiment
#Gibraltar #Cave #Hearth
#Biomarkers #Levoglucosan #PAHs #Retene #BPCAs

A Neanderthal's specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention

Here we present multiproxy evidence of a new type of Neanderthal hearth discovered in Vanguard Cave (VC) (Gibraltar), which is dated ∼ 65 kyr, and ass…