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28 Apr 2003: Orbital obliquity at 41 ka cycles which haddominated the earlier part of the Pleistocene wassuperceded progressively about a million years ago by a100 ka rhythm of climate change and increased-amplitudeclimatic ... The first talk, by Mark Maslin (UCL,

24 Apr 2003: the late survival ofNeanderthals in other parts of southern Iberia, for examplethe skeletal remains dated to perhaps 27 ka (U-series) fromthe cave of Zafarraya. ... 45 ka, with the earliest-dated Upper Palaeolithic (pre-. sumed to be associated with

19 Oct 2005: Holocene (6-8 ka BP) glaciers were even smaller than they are now (after the 2003 extreme summer).

20 Jan 2006: Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world.

4 May 2006: Echets, near Lyon, which span the last 140 ka.

24 Apr 2003: Lake Malawi, for example, has already provideda 25 ka record, and plans are afoot for a much deeperborehole which may go back to 1 Ma.