A5086686114- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Marine and environmental studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Marine and fisheries research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Historical Studies of Medieval Iberia
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2015-2024
Science and Technology Corporation for Naval, Maritime and Riverine Industry Development
2022
Secretaria Municipal de Cultura
2022
Universidad de Murcia
2022
Sonora Institute of Technology
2021
Autonomous University of Yucatán
2021
Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada
2019
Ensenada Institute of Technology
2018
Generalitat Valenciana
2012
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
2001
Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, the geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present largest DNA time series for a non-human organism to date, including genome-scale data from 149 ancient animals 129 genomes (≥1-fold coverage), 87 which are new. This extensive dataset allows us assess modern legacy past equestrian civilizations. We find that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, one at far western (Iberia) other eastern...
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...
Domestic horses represent a genetic paradox: although they have the greatest number of maternal lineages (mtDNA) all domestic species, their paternal are extremely homogeneous on Y-chromosome. In order to address huge mtDNA variation and origin history in horses, we analyzed 1961 partial d-loop sequences from 207 ancient remains 1754 modern horses. The sample set ranged Alaska North East Siberia Iberian Peninsula Late Pleistocene times. We found panmictic horse population ranging Pyrenees....
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...
Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens Asian domestication centers their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in reconstruction prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding temporal component ancient DNA and, some cases, direct dating bones individual variety sites Europe, Pacific, Americas. The results analyses forty-eight archaeologically derived...
Archaeologists often argue whether Paleolithic works of art, cave paintings in particular, constitute reflections the natural environment humans at time. They also debate extent to which these actually contain creative artistic expression, reflect phenotypic variation surrounding environment, or focus on rare phenotypes. The famous “The Dappled Horses Pech-Merle,” depicting spotted horses walls a Pech-Merle, France, date back ∼25,000 y, but coat pattern portrayed is remarkably similar known...
Abstract The distribution of the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) has been heavily influenced by its association with humans. dispersal history this non-native commensal rodent across Europe, however, remains poorly understood, and different introductions may have occurred during Roman medieval periods. Here, in order to reconstruct population European rats, we first generate a de novo genome assembly rat. We then sequence 67 ancient three modern mitogenomes, 36 nuclear genomes from...
Aim Natural processes of colonization and human-mediated introductions have shaped current patterns biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin. We use a comparative phylogeographic approach to investigate genetic structure Herpestes ichneumon Genetta genetta (Carnivora) across Strait Gibraltar, test for their supposedly contemporaneous introduction into Iberia. Location Basin Africa. Methods sequenced two mitochondrial fragments (cytochrome b control region) 91 (H. ichneumon) 185 (G. genetta)...
Abstract. Archaeozoological finds of the remains marine and amphihaline fish from Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ca. 21 ka ago show evidence very different species ranges compared to present. We have shown how an ecological niche model (ENM) based on palaeoclimatic reconstructions sea surface temperature bathymetry can be used effectively predict spatial range during LGM. The results indicate that now in northwestern Europe were displaced significantly southwards modern distribution, challenging...
Leopard complex spotting is inherited by the incompletely dominant locus, LP, which also causes congenital stationary night blindness in homozygous horses. We investigated an associated single nucleotide polymorphism TRPM1 gene 96 archaeological bones from 31 localities Late Pleistocene (approx. 17 000 YBP) to medieval times. The first genetic evidence of LP Europe dates back Pleistocene. tested for temporal changes allele frequency and estimated coefficients selection means approximate...
Taxonomic over-splitting of extinct or endangered taxa, due to an incomplete knowledge both skeletal morphological variability and the geographical ranges past populations, continues confuse link between isolated extant populations their ancestors. This is particularly problematic with genus Equus. To more reliably determine evolution phylogeographic history Asiatic wild ass, we studied genetic diversity inter-relationships over last 100,000 years, including samples throughout its previous...
Today there are ~56 million horses worldwide, but nearly all of them descendants one stallion.
Abstract Horses have been valued for their diversity of coat colour since prehistoric times; this is especially the case domestication in Caspian steppe ~3,500 BC. Although we can assume that human preferences were not constant, only anecdotal information about how domestic horses influenced by humans. Our results from genotype analyses show a significant increase spotted coats early (Copper Age to Iron Age). In contrast, medieval carried significantly fewer alleles these phenotypes, whereas...
Abstract Overexploitation has directly, negatively affected marine fish populations in the past half-century, modifying not only their abundance but behaviour and life-history traits. The recovery resilience of such is dependent upon exploitation history, which often extends back millennia. Hence, data on when intensified how were composed historical periods, have potential to reveal long-term population dynamics provide context baselines currently used fisheries management conservation....