A5060202403- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Food composition and properties
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
- Building materials and conservation
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Plant and animal studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2021-2025
Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
2021-2025
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
2012-2024
Casa de Velázquez
2022
University of Calgary
2018-2020
Éditions Gallimard (France)
2019
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
2012-2015
Questions about when early members of the genus Homo adapted to extreme environments like deserts and rainforests have traditionally focused on sapiens. Here, we present multidisciplinary evidence from Engaji Nanyori in Tanzania's Oldupai Gorge, revealing that erectus thrived hyperarid landscapes one million years ago. Using biogeochemical analyses, precise chronometric dating, palaeoclimate simulations, biome modeling, fire history reconstructions, palaeobotanical studies, faunal...
Eagle bones from Spanish cave reveal the long-standing Neanderthal jewelry tradition.
Abstract Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations, habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there dearth of information to assess hominin adaptions changing physiography during key evolutionary stages such as the early Pleistocene. Here we report multiproxy dataset from Ewass Oldupa, in Western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin Olduvai Gorge (now Oldupai), Tanzania, address this lacuna offer an ecological perspective on adaptability two...
Ancient starch research illuminates aspects of human ecology and economic botany that drove evolution cultural complexity over time, with a special emphasis on past technology, diet, health, adaptation to changing environments socio-economic systems. However, lapses in prevailing demonstrate the exaggerated expectations for field have been generated last few decades. This includes an absence explanation millennial-scale survivability biochemically degradable polymer, difficulties...
The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with appearance and expansion Modern Human populations. Culturally, it is defined by Late Middle succession, Early Upper complexes like Châtelperronian (southwestern Europe), Protoaurignacian, Aurignacian. Up to now, southern boundary for has been established as being situated between France Iberia, Cantabrian façade Pyrenees. According this, central territories Iberia are claimed have...
Abstract The emergence of agriculture in Central Africa has previously been associated with the migration Bantu-speaking populations during an anthropogenic or climate-driven ‘opening’ rainforest. However, such models are based on assumptions environmental requirements key crops (e.g. Pennisetum glaucum ) and direct insights into human dietary reliance remain absent. Here, we utilise stable isotope analysis (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, 18 O) animal remains charred food remains, as well plant...
The assumption that taxonomy can be ascertained by starch granule shape and size has persisted since the late nineteenth early twentieth century biochemistry. More recent work established morphological affinity is scattered throughout phylogenetic branches, morphotype proportions vary within genus, granules from closely related genera differ dramatically in shape, variations do not reflect relationships. This situation confounded polymorphism at species tissue level, resulting redundancy...
We present the results of prospecting in NE Iberian Peninsula, with aim identifying siliceous sources potentially used by populations that occupied marginal basins Ebro depression during Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.We intend to define main characteristics cherts region studied, taking into account palaeoenvironment which silicifications are mainly formed, premise rocks acquire attributes enclosing rocks.The studied products early diagenesis replacement carbonate evaporite sediments....
La reactivación de la actividad arqueológica española a partir los años 1950, especialmente prolífica en algunas regiones como Cataluña, incorporó algunos yacimientos clave para el conocimiento grandes procesos culturales del pasado. Es caso las cuevas Toll y Font Major cuyas colecciones cerámica cardial, por su cantidad calidad, han sido referencia Neolítico antiguo distintos momentos. En cambio cuentan con pocos o nulos datos contextuales debido métodos que se emplearon esas primeras...
Oldupai Gorge is located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Tanzania along western margin of East African Rift System. Oldupai's sedimentary record contains inter-stratified stone tool industries associated with Earlier, Middle, and Later Stone Age. While diachronic technological change perceptible, totality locally available rocks remained largely unchanged through time. Here, thin section petrography, Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy...
The Oldowan represents the earliest recurrent evidence of human material culture and one longest-lasting forms technology. Its appearance across African continent amid Plio-Pleistocene profound ecological transformations, posterior dispersal throughout Old World is at foundation hominin technological dependence. However, uncertainties exist concerning degree to which constitutes an environment-driven behavioral adaptation. Moreover, it necessary understand how technology varied through time...
Large, conglomerate caves in north-eastern Iberia have been significant places since the Neolithic through to historical times; however, their significance during Palaeolithic has barely explored. This project is first systematic study of use these iconic geological landmarks among Pleistocene hunter-gatherers.