Comptes Rendus Palevol
Articles in French and English, abstracts in both languages
This series (8 issues per year) is devoted to palaeontology, prehistory and evolutionary sciences. It covers the following domains: general, systematic, and human palaeontology, prehistory, evolution, history of sciences.
Articles are preferably written in English, with a French Abstract. Articles in French including an abridged English version, at least one page long, are accepted.
Publishing Director: Catherine Bréchignac
Impact factor: 1.009
5 year impact factor: 1.070
Imprint: Elsevier
ISSN: 1631-0683
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Extracted from Scopus (on Sun Jun 30)50 Delclòs, X. | Arillo, A. | Peñalver, E. | Barrón, E. | Soriano, C. | Valle, R.L.D. | Bernárdez, E. | Corral, C. | Ortuño, V.M. Fossiliferous amber deposits from the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 1-2, 2007-01-01, Pages 135-149 35 Hublin, J.-J. | Roebroeks, W. Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2009-07-01, Pages 503-509 24 Miras, Y. | Ejarque, A. | Riera, S. | Palet, J.M. | Orengo, H. | Euba, I. Holocene vegetation changes and land-use history in the Andorran Pyrenees since the Early Neolithic: The pollen record of Bosc dels Estanyons (2180 m a.s.l., Vall del Madriu, Andorra) | Dynamique holocène de la végétation et occupation des Pyrénées andorranes depuis le Néolithique ancien, d'après l'analyse pollinique de la tourbière de Bosc dels Estanyons (2180 m, Vall del Madriu, Andorre) Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 4, 2007-05-01, Pages 291-300 20 Thomazo, C. | Pinti, D.L. | Busigny, V. | Ader, M. | Hashizume, K. | Philippot, P. Biological activity and the Earth's surface evolution: Insights from carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and iron stable isotopes in the rock record Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 7, 2009-10-01, Pages 665-678 18 Crochet, J.-Y. | Welcomme, J.-L. | Ivorra, J. | Ruffet, G. | Boulbes, N. | Capdevila, R. | Claude, J. | Firmat, C. | Métais, G. | Michaux, J. | Pickford, M. A new vertebrate fauna associated with lithic artefacts from the Early Pleistocene of the Hérault Valley (southern France) dated around 1.57 Ma | Une nouvelle faune de vertébrés continentaux, associée à des artefacts dans le Pléistocène inférieur de l'Hérault (Sud de la France), vers 1,57 Ma Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 8, 2009-12-01, Pages 725-736 17 Pereda-Suberbiola, X. | Canudo, J.I. | Cruzado-Caballero, P. | Barco, J.L. | López-Martínez, N. | Oms, O. | Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I. The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain) Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 6, 2009-09-01, Pages 559-572 17 Trueman, C.N. | Palmer, M.R. | Field, J. | Privat, K. | Ludgate, N. | Chavagnac, V. | Eberth, D.A. | Cifelli, R. | Rogers, R.R. Comparing rates of recrystallisation and the potential for preservation of biomolecules from the distribution of trace elements in fossil bones Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2008-04-01, Pages 145-158 16 Slimak, L. | Giraud, Y. Raw material circulations over hundred kilometres during the Middle Palaeolithic; implications concerning our knowledge of Neanderthalian societies | Circulations sur plusieurs centaines de kilomètres durant le Paléolithique moyen. Contribution à la connaissance des sociétés néandertaliennes Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 5, 2007-07-01, Pages 359-368 15 Ferguson, D.K. | Zetter, R. | Paudayal, K.N. The need for the SEM in palaeopalynology Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 6-7, 2007-11-01, Pages 423-430 13 Soriano, C. | Archer, M. | Azar, D. | Creaser, P. | Delclòs, X. | Godthelp, H. | Hand, S. | Jones, A. | Nel, A. | Néraudeau, D. | Ortega-Blanco, J. | Pérez-de la Fuente, R. | Perrichot, V. | Saupe, E. | Kraemer, M.S. | Tafforeau, P. Synchrotron X-ray imaging of inclusions in amber | Imagerie par rayonnement X synchrotron d'inclusions dans l'ambre Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 9, Issue 6-7, 2010-09-01, Pages 361-368 - View all items
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Sun Jun 301 Frédéric Marin | Gilles Luquet Molluscan shell proteins Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 469-492 2 Denis Allemand | Christine Ferrier-Pagès | Paola Furla | Fanny Houlbrèque | Sandrine Puverel | Stéphanie Reynaud | Éric Tambutté | Sylvie Tambutté | Didier Zoccola Biomineralisation in reef-building corals: from molecular mechanisms to environmental control Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 453-467 3 Yves Nys | Joël Gautron | Juan M. Garcia-Ruiz | Maxwell T. Hincke Avian eggshell mineralization: biochemical and functional characterization of matrix proteins Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 6-7, October 2004, Pages 549-562 4 Martin Pickford | Brigitte Senut | Dominique Gommery | Jacques Treil Bipedalism in Orrorin tugenensis revealed by its femora Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2002, Pages 191-203 5 Kevin Padian | Armand de Ricqlès L𢀙origine et l𢀙évolution des oiseaux : 35 années de progrès Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 2-3, March𢀓April 2009, Pages 257-280 6 David Pilbeam | Nathan Young Hominoid evolution: synthesizing disparate data Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 3, Issue 4, July 2004, Pages 305-321 7 Mary Higby Schweitzer | Recep Avci | Timothy Collier | Mark B. Goodwin Microscopic, chemical and molecular methods for examining fossil preservation Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 7, Issue 2-3, April 2008, Pages 159-184 8 John A.J. Gowlett The early settlement of northern Europe: Fire history in the context of climate change and the social brain Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 5, Issue 1-2, January𢀓February 2006, Pages 299-310 9 Colin Renfrew Inception of agriculture and rearing in the Middle East Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 5, Issue 1-2, January𢀓February 2006, Pages 395-404 10 Jean-Jacques Hublin | Wil Roebroeks Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 5, July 2009, Pages 503-509 - View all items
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