This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2019
Maya caves, James E. Brady and Andrea Stone
Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka, Oshan Wedage, Andrea Picin, and James Blinkhorn
Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, Götz Ossendorf, Alexander R. Groos, and Tobias Bromm
Modeling intrinsic vulnerability of complex karst aquifers: modifying the COP method to account for sinkhole density and fault location, Natalie A. Jones, Jered Hansen, and Abraham E. Springer
Modelling spring discharge and solute transport in conduits by coupling CFPv2 to an epikarst reservoir for a karst aquifer, Yong Chang, Jichun Wu, and Guanghui Jiang
Morphological and mineralogical evidence for ancient bat presence in Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca, Western Mediterranean), Antoni Merino, Joan J. Fornós, Antoni Mulet, and Joaquín Ginés
Mosaic dental morphology in a terminal Pleistocene hominin from Dushan Cave in southern China, Wei Liao, Song Xing, and Dawei Li
Move over, DNA: ancient proteins are starting to reveal humanity’s history, Matthew Warren
Multi-Isotope investigations of ungulate bones and teeth from El Castillo and Covalejos caves (Cantabria, Spain): Implications for paleoenvironment reconstructions across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition, Jennifer R. Jones, Michael P. Richards, and Hazel Reade
Multi-phased hypogene speleogenesis in a marginal horst structure of the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia, Pavel Bella, Pavel Bosák, Petr Mikysek, Juraj Littva, Helena Hercman, and Jacek Pawlak
Multiscale model of regional population decline in little brown bats due to white‐nose syndrome, Andrew M. Kramer, Claire S. Teitelbaum, and Ashton Griffin
Mysterious Creatures: Exploring The Depths Of Our Karst Aquifers, Nathan Cone
Neandertal features of the deciduous and permanent teeth from Portel-Ouest Cave (Ariège, France), Gaël Becam and Tony Chevalier
Neogene Evolution of Central Texas Landscape after Balcones Faulting, Peter R. Rose
New bracketing luminescence ages constrain the Sima de los Huesos hominin fossils (Atapuerca, Spain) to MIS 12, Martina Demuro, Lee J. Arnold, and Arantza Aranburu
New data from the Middle Palaeolithic Cotencher cave (Swiss Jura): site formation, environment, and chronology, Judit Deák, Frank Preusser, and Marie-Isabelle Cattin
New electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from Geißenklösterle Cave: A chronological study of the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic layers, Maïlys Richard, Christophe Falguères, Hélène Valladas, and Bassam Ghaleb
New evidence of broader diets for archaic Homopopulations in the northwestern Mediterranean, E. Morin, J. Meier, and K. El Guennouni
New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate, Elaina Hancock
Nitrate distribution and dynamics as indicators to characterize karst groundwater flow in a mined mineral deposit in southwestern China, He Huang, Zhihua Chen, and Tao Wang
No Change Detected in Culturable Fungal Assemblages on Cave Walls in Eastern Canada with the Introduction of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Karen J. Vanderwolf, David Malloch, and Donald F. McAlpine
North Atlantic Ice‐Rafting, Ocean and Atmospheric Circulation During the Holocene: Insights From Western Mediterranean Speleothems, Y. Ait Brahim, J. A. Wassenburg, L. Sha, and F. W. Cruz
Northern segment of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, Ian C. Jones
On the interactions between airflow and ice melting in ice caves: A novel methodology based on computational fluid dynamics modeling, Barbara Berrtozzi, Beatrice Pulvienti, and Renato Colucci
On the limits of 3D capture: A new method to approach the photogrammetric recording of palaeolithic thin incised engravings in Atxurra Cave (northern Spain), Olivia Rivero, Juan F. Ruiz-López, Iñaki Intxaurbe, and Sergio Salazar
Origin of dolomite of the lower Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation, eastern Sichuan Basin, China, Ying Ren, Dakang Zhong, and Chonglong Gao
Ozark Underground Laboratory’s Groundwater Tracing Handbook, Thomas Aley
Pablo Vargas Lugo: Naj Tunich, Ediciones Turner
Paleobiology and Taphonomy of a Middle Paleolithic Neandertal Tooth from Ciemna Cave, Southern Poland, John C. Willman, Bolesław Ginter, Raquel Hernando, and Marina Lozano
Paleogeomorphology restoration and the controlling effects of paleogeomorphology on karst reservoirs: a case study of an ordovician-aged section in Tahe oilfield, Tarim Basin, China, Changcheng Han, Chengyan Lin, and Lihua Ren
Petrography and provenance of floor sediments from the Loutra Almopias Cave (Pella, Macedonia, Greece), Ioannis Georgiadis, Katerina Chatzopoulou, Nikolaos Kantiranis, Ioakeim Ioakeimidis, and Ananias Tsirambides
Phouhin Namno 2019, Clément Marguet, Thomas Marguet, and Gaël Brewal Diraison
Physics-based fine-scale numerical model of a karst system (Milandre Cave, Switzerland), Cécile Vuilleumier, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Pierre Perrochet
Preface, Jaime J. Awe
Primary and Secondary Deposition of Subadult Bones - Activation and Purification of Ritual Spaces Within Caves, Michael Prout
Protecting Stone Heritage in the Painted Desert: Employing the Rock Art Stability Index in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, Kaelin M. Groom, Niccole Villa Cerveny, and Casey D. Allen
Radon concentration in three Florida caves: Florida, Jennings, and Ocala, Megan E. Smith, Oana A. Dumitru, and Bety D. Burghele
Rare dental trait provides morphological evidence of archaic introgression in Asian fossil record, Shara E. Bailey, Jean-Jacques Hublin, and Susan C. Anton
Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin, Richard L. Rosencrance, Geoffrey M. Smith, and Dennis L. Jenkins
Remedial investigations of karst aquifers: a case study at former Marietta Air Force Station, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Marc Randrianarivelo, Wanfang Zhaou, and Michael Barsa
Resistance is futile: RNA-sequencing reveals differing responses to bat fungal pathogen in Nearctic Myotis lucifugus and Palearctic Myotis myotis, Thomas M. Lilley, Jenni M. Prokkola, and Anna S. Blomberg
Resolving seasonal rainfall changes in the Middle East during the last interglacial period, Ian J. Orland, Feng He, and Miryam Bar-Matthews
Ritual economy and ancient Maya bloodletting: Obsidian blades from Actun Uayazba Kab (Handprint Cave), Belize, James W. Stemp, Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, and Jaime J. Awe
Salt dissolution potential estimated from two-dimensional vertical thermohaline flow and transport modeling along a Transylvanian salt diapir, Romania, Eric Zechner, Horst Dresmann, and Marius Mocuta
San Antonio Pool of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, R. T. Green, F. P. Bertetti, and B. Fratesi
Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems, Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, and David C. Culver
Screening the cultivable cave microbial mats for the production of antimicrobial compounds and antibiotic resistance, Jerneja Ambrožič Avguštin, Patricia Petrič, and Lejla Pašić
Sensitivity of speleothem records in the Indian Summer Monsoon region to dry season infiltration, Elli R. Ronay, Sebastian F. Breitenbach, and Jessica L. Oster
Species-area model predicting diversity loss in an artificially flooded cave in Brazil, Rodrigo L. Ferreira and Thais G. Pellegrini
Speleothem U/Th age constraints for the Last Glacial conditions in the Apuan Alps, northwestern Italy, Ilaria Isola, A. Ribolini, Giovanni Zanchetta, and M. Bini
Spy cave (Belgium) Neanderthals (36,000y BP). Taphonomy and peri-mortem traumas of Spy I and Spy II: Murder or accident, Y. Fernández-Jalvo and P. Andrews
Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe, Christoph Wißing, Hélène Rougier, and Chris Baumann
State of the art forensic techniques reveal evidence of interpersonal violence ca. 30,000 years ago, Elena F. Kranioti, Dan Grigorescu, and Katerina Harvati
STGS April 2019 Bulletin, Gene Ames III
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art, Randall White, Gerhard Bosinski, and Raphaëlle Bourrillon
Structural and environmental predictors of presence and abundance of tri-colored bats in Texas culverts, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Samantha J. Leivers, and Rachel R. Fern
Subaqueous speleothems (Hells Bells) formed by the interplay of pelagic redoxcline biogeochemistry and specific hydraulic conditions in the El Zapote sinkhole, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Simon Michael Ritter, Margot Isenbeck-Schröter, and Christian Scholz
Surface runoff and carbonates-based definition of protection zones for Egirdir Lake in western Turkey, Muhterem Demiroglu, Remzi Karaguzel, and Mahmut Mutluturk
Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco; Marieke S. van de Loosdrrecht,; and Cosimo Posth
Technological successions in the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa, Guillaume Porraz, Pierre-Jean Texier, and Will Archer
The African Humid Period, rapid climate change events, the timing of human colonization, and megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar during the Holocene: Evidence from a 2m Anjohibe Cave stalagmite, Lixin Wang, George A. Brook, David A. Burney, and Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa
The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats, David C. Culver and Tanja Pipan
The bony labyrinth of StW 573 (“Little Foot”): Implications for early hominin evolution and paleobiology, Amélie Beaudet, Ronald J. Clarke, and Laurent Bruxelles
The case for seasonal surface changes at Titan’s lake district, S. M. MacKenzie, J. W. Barnes, and J. D. Hofgartner
The cave-dwelling dipluran (Diplura, Campodeidae) on the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum in Vancouver Island caves, North America (Canada), Alberto Sendra and Craig Wagnell
The characteristics and controlling factors of facies-controlled coastal eogenetic karst: insights from the Fourth Member of Neoproterozoic Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China, Zhengqiang Che, Xiucheng Tan, and Jiating Deng
The Châtelperronian Neanderthals of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain) used imperial eagle phalanges for symbolic purposes, A. Rodríguez-Hidalgo, J. I. Morales, and A. Cebrià
The control of the formation of karst collapse through the ancient Yellow River Fault zone in Xuzhou, China, Longyu Cui, Jingnun Huang, and Xin Wu
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel, Rachel Sarig, Cinzia Fornai, and Ariel Pokhojaev
The dissolution mechanism and karst development of carbonate rocks in karst rocky desertification area of Zhenfeng–Guanling–Huajiang County, Guizhou, China, You'en Bai, Qi Liu, and Zhanfei Gu
The EAA Act: A Success Story, Edwards Aquifer Authority
The early Upper Palaeolithic of Cova de les Cendres (Alicante, Spain), Valentín Villaverde, Christina Real, Dídac Roman, and Rosa María Albert
The Edwards Aquifer: The Past, Present, and Future of a Vital Water Resource, Brian A. Smith and Brian B. Hunt
The Effect of Volatile Organic Compounds on Pseudogymnoascus Destructans the Causative Agent of White Nose Syndrome in Bats, Victoria Lois Korn
The endocast of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) and hominin brain evolution, Amélie Beaudet, Ronald J. Clarke, and Edwin J. de Jager
The first Neanderthal specimen from Serbia: Maxillary first molar from the Late Pleistocene of Pešturina Cave, Predrag Radoović, Joshua Lindal, and Dušan Milhailović
The geochemistry and origin of fluids in the carbonate structure of the Hranice Karst with the world's deepest flooded cave of the Hranicka Abyss, Czech Republic, O. Sracek, M. Geršl, and J. Faimon
The lampenflora in show caves and its treatment: an emerging ecological problem, Carlos Baquedano Estévez, Luis Moreno Merino, Almudena de la Losa Román, and Juan J. Durán Valsero
The Misunderstood Lives Of Bats, Andi Murphy
The multifaceted effects induced by floods on the macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting a sinking cave stream, Octavian Pacioglu, Nicoleta Ianovici, Mărioara N. Filimon, Adrian Sinitean, Gabriel Iacob, Henrietta Barabas, Alexandru Pahomi, Andrei Acs, Hanelore Muntean, and Lucian Pârvulescu
The origin and distribution of Ordovician Yingshan dolomite on the northern slope of Tazhong area in Tarim Basin, Zhao Jiahui, Zhao Rui, and Wu Yasheng
The Paleolithic Burials at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, Bernanrd Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef
The Translation of a Maya Cosmogram onto an Uncooperative Terrestrial Landscape, James E. Brady
Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li, and Michael V. Shunkov
Towards Organic Carbon Isotope Records from Stalagmites: Coupled δ13C and 14C Analysis Using Wet Chemical Oxidation, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Susan Q. Lang, Negar Haghipour, and Cameron McIntyre
Transition or Replacement? Radiocarbon Dates from Hohle Fels Cave (Alb-Donau-Kreis / D) and the Passage from Aurignacian to Gravettian, Andreas Taller and Nicholas J. Conard
Trou de la Mère Clochette, Jonathan Ozcelebi
UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 74, May 2019, Ed Waters
UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 75, December 2019, Ed Waters
Understanding flooding in poljes: A modelling perspective, Cyril Mayaud, Franci Grabovšek, Matej Blatnik, and Blaž Kogovšek
Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory, Lindsey Büster, Eugène Warmenbol, and Dimitrij Mlekuž
Understanding the Banff Hot Springs through Karst Hydrogeology, Charles Yonge
Use of remote sensing and long-term in-situ time-series data in an integrated hydrological model of the Central Kalahari Basin, Southern Africa, Moiteela Lekula and Maciek W. Lubczynski
USGS 08170990 Jacobs Well Spg nr Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey
USGS 08171000 Blanco Rv at Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey
U-Th dated speleothem recorded geomagnetic excursions in the Lower Brunches, Jean-Pierre Pozzi, Louis Rousseau, Christophe Falguères, and Geoffroy Mahieux
Vampire Bats that Cooperate in the Lab Maintain Their Social Networks in the Wild, Simon P. Ripperger, Gerald G. Carter, and Niklas Duda
