José Antonio López Sáez
A5021898325- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Landslides and related hazards
- Geological formations and processes
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Instituto de Historia
2015-2024
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2015-2024
Hospital Quirón Teknon
2024
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
2014-2023
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of History
2019-2023
Universidad de Granada
2013-2020
Universidad de Málaga
2020
Universidad de Cantabria
2020
University of Tübingen
2020
Unidades Centrales Científico-Técnicas
2010-2020
A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 8000 years ago. Through a collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled comprehensive picture trajectory worldwide during Holocene (see Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed face Earth earlier greater extent than has been widely appreciated, transformation that was essentially global 3000 before present....
Abstract Background The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, climate change will affect fire behavior, representing a key knowledge gap sustainable management. We used expert assessment combine opinions about past future regimes from 99 researchers. asked quantitative qualitative assessments of the...
Numerous studies along the northern Mediterranean borderland have documented use of shellfish by Neanderthals but none these finds are prior to Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3). In this paper we present evidence that gathering and consumption mollusks can now be traced back lowest level archaeological sequence at Bajondillo Cave (Málaga, Spain), dated during MIS 6. The describes taxonomical taphonomical features mollusk assemblages from Bj(19) briefly touches upon those retrieved in levels...
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites the Malaga Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) Maghreb (North Africa) reveal existence settlement at least 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural pastoralist food producing economy that population rapidly replaced coastal economies Mesolithic populations. timing this economic turnover coincided with major changes in continental marine ecosystems, including upwelling intensity, sea-level increased aridity Sahara along...
Abstract The Black Death (1347–1352 ce ) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to have killed half of Europe’s population. However, despite advances ancient DNA research that conclusively identified pandemic’s causative agent (bacterium Yersinia pestis ), our knowledge remains limited, based primarily on qualitative remarks medieval written sources available for some areas Western Europe. Here, we remedy this situation applying a pioneering new approach, ‘big data...
Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible assess past effects environmental variables and land-use change on ecosystems biodiversity, mitigating their in future. We present here most spatially extensive temporally continuous pollen-based plant cover (at a spatial resolution 1° × 1°) over (last 11.7 ka BP) using ‘Regional Estimates VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites’...
Abstract Aim Quaternary palaeopalynological records collected throughout the Iberian Peninsula and species distribution models (SDMs) were integrated to gain a better understanding of historical biogeography Abies (i.e. pinsapo alba ). We hypothesize that SDMs palaeorecords are closely correlated, assuming certain stasis in climatic topographic ecological niche dimensions. In addition, modelling results used assign fossil A. or , identify environmental variables affecting their distribution,...
The littoral site of Ifri Oudadane is one the most important recently excavated sites in Mediterranean Maghreb. shelter presents Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic layers therefore offers possibility to investigate transition region. Besides introducing archaeological context, this paper focuses on palaeobotanical data order reconstruct Holocene environmental change human use plant resources for period c. 11 5.7 ka cal. BP. Results show intense landscape transformations resulting from anthropic...
A detailed pollen analysis has been carried out on two sediment cores taken from a marsh area located in the Doñana National Park, southwestern Spain. The studied sedimentary sequences contain similar late Holocene record of vegetation and climate show progressive aridification trend since at least 5000 cal. yr BP, through decrease forest cover this area. Long-term changes shown here (semi-desert expansion Mediterranean decline) paralleled declining summer insolation. Decreasing insolation...
Abstract. The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples help support studies past climate, land cover, and use using fossil pollen. EMPD is part of, complementary to, the European (EPD) which contains data on found Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout region. EPD turn rapidly growing Neotoma database, now primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes...