Bridging Europe: A Quaternary Timescale For The Expansion And Evolution Of Humans

Project Information

EQUATE

Grant agreement ID: 865222

DOI

10.3030/865222

Project closed

EC signature date 27 February 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 278,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 278,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics

Author(s): Joannes Adrianus Antonius Dekker, Carli Peters, Rachel M. Winter, Matthew J. Collins, Marc R. Dickinson, Virginia L. Harvey, Eden Hill, Bharath Nair, Takumi Tsutaya, Laura C. Viñas-Caron, Christina Warinner, Frido Welker, Zandra Fagernäs
Published in: Peer Community Journal, Issue 5, 2026, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community In
DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.576

Amino acid dating of Pleistocene mammalian enamel from the River Thames terrace sequence: a multi-taxon approach

Author(s): M.R. Dickinson, K. Scott, N.F. Adams, A.M. Lister, K.E.H. Penkman
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 82, 2024, Page(s) 101543, ISSN 1871-1014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101543

Climatic and tectonic controls on deposition in the Heidelberg Basin, Upper Rhine Graben, Germany

Author(s): Lukas Gegg, Laura Jacob, Olivier Moine, Ellie Nelson, Kirsty E.H. Penkman, Fiona Schwahn, Philipp Stojakowits, Dustin White, Ulrike Wielandt-Schuster, Frank Preusser
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 345, 2024, Page(s) 109018, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109018

A new method for amino acid geochronology of the shell of the bivalve mollusc <i>Arctica islandica</i>

Author(s): Martina L. G. Conti, Paul G. Butler, David J. Reynolds, Tamara Trofimova, James D. Scourse, Kirsty E. H. Penkman
Published in: Geochronology, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 175-198, ISSN 2628-3719
Publisher: European GeoSciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/gchron-6-175-2024

Dating the Paleolithic: Trapped charge methods and amino acid geochronology

Author(s): Kirsty E. H. Penkman; Geoff A. T. Duller; Helen M. Roberts; Debra Colarossi; Marc R. Dickinson; Dustin White
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 119, 2022, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109324119

The effect of light exposure on the thermoluminescence signal from calcitic opercula

Author(s): D. Colarossi, G.A.T. Duller, H.M. Roberts, R.J. Stirling, K.E.H. Penkman
Published in: Radiation Measurements, Issue 183, 2026, Page(s) 107417, ISSN 1350-4487
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2025.107417

Assessing the intra-crystalline approach to amino acid geochronology of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral)

Author(s): Lucy J. Wheeler, Kirsty E.H. Penkman, Hans Petter Sejrup
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 61, 2021, Page(s) 101131, ISSN 1871-1014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101131

Characterising and correcting for a previously unconsidered source of scatter in measurements of equivalent dose

Author(s): G.A.T. Duller, H.M. Roberts, M.S. Chapot
Published in: Radiation Measurements, Issue 167, 2024, Page(s) 106985, ISSN 1350-4487
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2023.106985

Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior around 200,000 years ago

Author(s): Jarod M. Hutson, Felix Bittmann, Peter Fischer, Alejandro García-Moreno, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Ellie Nelson, José E. Ortiz, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, Zoran M. Perić, Daniel Richter, Trinidad Torres, Elaine Turner, Aritza Villaluenga, Dustin White, Olaf Jöris
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv0752

Chasing snails: Automating the processing of EMCCD images of luminescence from opercula

Author(s): G.A.T. Duller, H.M. Roberts
Published in: Radiation Measurements, Issue 172, 2024, Page(s) 107084, ISSN 1350-4487
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2024.107084

A Quaternary aminostratigraphy for the Pannonian Basin: The competing influences of time, burial depth and temperature in deep-core material

Author(s): Ellie Nelson, Zoltán Püspöki, Dustin White, György Pogácsás, Richard William McIntosh, Bálint Szappanos, Lucy Wheeler, Tamás Fancsik, Kirsty Penkman
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 346, 2024, Page(s) 109044, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109044

Assessing whether a thermoluminescence peak at ∼100 °C in calcitic opercula can be used to monitor thermal reproducibility

Author(s): D. Colarossi, G.A.T. Duller, H.M. Roberts
Published in: Radiation Measurements, Issue 174, 2024, Page(s) 107115, ISSN 1350-4487
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2024.107115

Quaternary aminostratigraphies for the eastern North European Plain.

Author(s): Ellie Nelson, Dustin White, Lucy Wheeler, Stefan Meng, Marcin Szymanek, Jaqueline Strahl, Michael Hein, Witold P. Alexandrowicz, Brigitte Urban, Samantha Greeves, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, Tobias Lauer, David Colin Tanner, Kirsty E.H Penkman
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 5, 2026, Page(s) 396, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.21815.1

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial

Author(s): Patrick Arnold, Doris Döppes, Federica Alberti, Andreas Füglistaler, Susanne Lindauer, Christian Hoselmann, Ronny Friedrich, Irka Hajdas, Marc Dickinson, Frank Menger, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Love Dalén, Daniel Wegmann, Kirsty E.H. Penkman, Axel Barlow, Wilfried Rosendahl, Michael Hofreiter
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 5363-5371.e6, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.035

Testing the effect of oxidizing pre-treatments on amino acids in benthic and planktic foraminifera tests

Author(s): Emily Millman, Lucy Wheeler, Katharina Billups, Darrell Kaufman, Kirsty E. H. Penkman
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 73, 2022, ISSN 1871-1014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101401

An aminostratigraphy of the northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany

Author(s): Ellie Nelson, Dustin White, Lucy Wheeler, Joachim Wedel, Christian Hoselmann, Heiner Heggemann, Wolfgang Rähle, Kirsty Penkman
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, Issue 40, 2025, Page(s) 1147-1175, ISSN 0267-8179
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.70004

The ‘La Celle interglacial’: a key-record of MIS 11c palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimate in NW Europe

Author(s): N. Limondin-Lozouet, J. Dabkowski, P. Antoine, J.J. Bahain, P. Voinchet, K.E.H. Penkman, D. White, M.C. Jolly-Saad, P. Auguste, B. Ghaleb
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 370, 2026, Page(s) 109667, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109667

Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India

Author(s): Ghulam M. Bhat, Nick Ashton, Simon Parfitt, Advait Jukar, Marc R. Dickinson, Bindra Thusu, Jonathan Craig
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 342, 2024, Page(s) 108894, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108894

‘Mammothfluidics’: Amino acid dating of fossil mammal tooth enamel using a modular microfluidic system

Author(s): Laila Patinglag, Marc R. Dickinson, Marcus Hill, Kirsty E.H. Penkman, Kirsty J. Shaw
Published in: Quaternary Geochronology, Issue 91, 2025, Page(s) 101705, ISSN 1871-1014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2025.101705

The Hasli Formation of the Irchel Plateau – A key record for older Early Pleistocene interglacial sediments in northern Switzerland

Author(s): Nigel Thew, Daniel Kälin, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Marius W. Buechi, Kirsty Penkman, Stephanie Scheidt, Maria Knipping, Fabian Maier, Isabel Urresti, Gaudenz Deplazes
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 332, 2024, Page(s) 108550, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108550

Other (1)

An aminostratigraphy for the Quaternary of the Swiss Plateau

Author(s): Kirsty Penkman, Nigel Thew, Samantha Presslee, Sheila Taylor, Eleanor Nelson, Daniel Kalin, Marius Buchi, Gaudenz Deplazes
Published in: EarthArXiv, 2024
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.31223/x57700

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Building an amino acid geochronology for Quaternary Europe: a story of time and temperature.

Author(s): Nelson, Eleanor
Published in: 2025
Publisher: White Rose eTheses Online