New research from ERIS (“Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy of Science) and IPHES-CERCA (Institut Català de...

Dear friends, We hope you started this new year vigorously. The team is whishing you all the best for 2025 and stay close as INTEGRATE...

Dear friends, Our project, INTEGRATE (“Paleoecology and extinction of large mammals from Isotopic Stages 3-1 of the Romanian Carpathians:...

Dear friends, We're happy to announce that our second paper "Intraguild interactions among carnivorans of the last glacial: The case of...

Dear friends, After one full and intense year of fieldwork, labs, reports, writing papers, and conferences, the results started to...

Photo 1. Ionuț, Theodor Obadă, Marius and Viorica Pascari, at the Zoological Institute of the Moldavian Academy of Sciences Photo 2. Alex...

Photo 1. The lab where Paolo, Ivan and Florent analyzed the cave bear teeth. Photo 2. A close-up of the lower M1 occlusal surface. Photo...

Photo1. Andra performing the osteometric measurements. Photo 2. Ionuț cutting the samples to be sent for radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon...

Part II. The Neptune, other machines and people Photo 1. Starting to work on the laser ablation system Excimer Photo 2. First attempt to...

Part I. Calcium chemistry in the clean lab Photo 1. Weighing the samples with the high-precision scale Mettler Toledo XP26 (readability...

Foto 1. Marius cutting the cave bear mandibles for Ca analyses Foto 2. Gabriela is databasing the mandibles to be taken to Terra Analitic...

Foto 1. Cleaning the occlusal surface with a cotton swab, acetone and alcohol to remove any consolidant or varnish from the occlusal...

We are on schedule with the work within INTEGRATE and we are making consistent progress. In the first phase, we aim at non-invasive...

We are grateful to have such dedicated and professional collaborators like Phd. Laurențiu Angheluță (aka Luthonium). The laborious and...

Last week, 1-7 July, our team (Ionuț, Luchiana and Marius) was in the field, working intensively and sampling Late Pleistocene fossils...

Cave bear mandible from Urșilor Cave. This image was processed from 297 high-resolution pictures. Foto: Laurențiu Angheluță We hope that...

Andra and Gabriela preparing the male and female cave bear mandibles from Oase Cave for inventory. Foto: Marius Robu We are very excited...