The consumption of tortoise among last interglacial Iberian Neanderthals

M Nabais, J Zilhão - Quaternary science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Optimal foraging theory and diet breadth models often place large mammals in top-ranking
positions due to their high-energy return. However, mass collection of small prey can result …

[HTML][HTML] A revised, last interglacial chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic sequence of Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal)

J Zilhão, DE Angelucci, LJ Arnold, M Demuro… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on previous radiocarbon and U-series (Diffusion/Adsorption) dating of bone samples,
the Middle Palaeolithic has been thought to persist at Gruta da Oliveira until∼ 37 thousand …

The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia

JA Haws, MM Benedetti, S Talamo, N Bicho… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Documenting the first appearance of modern humans in a given region is key to
understanding the dispersal process and the replacement or assimilation of indigenous …

Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia

J Zilhão, D Anesin, T Aubry, E Badal, D Cabanes… - Heliyon, 2017 - cell.com
The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is
supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating …

New middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

J Daura, M Sanz, JL Arsuaga, DL Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
The Middle Pleistocene is a crucial time period for studying human evolution in Europe,
because it marks the appearance of both fossil hominins ancestral to the later Neandertals …

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind: Exotic lithic raw materials, mobility and social networking among the Côa Valley foragers (Portugal)

T Aubry, L Luís, JM Llach, H Matias - Journal of anthropological …, 2012 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to establish different socio-cultural models based on lithic raw
material sourcing integrated with regional rock art distributions to infer social behaviours …

Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in westernmost Eurasia

J Zilhão, SJM Davis, C Duarte, AMM Soares, P Steier… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Neandertals and the Middle Paleolithic persisted in the Iberian Peninsula south
of the Ebro drainage system for several millennia beyond their assimilation/replacement …

Sedimentary processes involved in mud brick degradation in temperate environments: a micromorphological approach in an ethnoarchaeological context in northern …

DE Friesem, P Karkanas, G Tsartsidou… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sun dried mud bricks are a common building material across the globe, found in many
archaeological sites in the Old World since ca. 11,000 years ago. This material is known to …

The sequence at Carihuela Cave and its potential for research into Neanderthal ecology and the Mousterian in southern Spain

JS Carrión, S Fernández, JM Jiménez-Arenas… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hitherto unpublished 14 C and 230 Thsingle bond 234 U determinations from Carihuela
Cave (Granada province, Andalusia, Spain) raise a possibility of late survival here of …

Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: The Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)

M Sanz, J Daura, D Cabanes, N Égüez, Á Carrancho… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy
dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene …