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  1. Tracing the footprints of the Atlas Brown Bear: a metric analysis of Holocene and Late Pleistocene remains from Northern Morocco

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, March 2026, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  2. Detection of dietary stress and geophagic behaviour forced by dry seasons in Miocene Gomphotherium

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, Professor Fernando Rocha

  3. The oldest mule in the western Mediterranean. The case of the Early Iron Age in Hort d’en Grimau (Penedès, Barcelona, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2026, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  4. The Last Iberian Record of Eurasian Lynx ( Lynx lynx ): Osteometry and Historical Implications of the Lynx from Sima Topinoria (Cantabria, Spain)

    Article • December 2025, openRxiv

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  5. Palaeoproteomic insights into the deep roots of the cave bear lineage in Europe

    Article • October 2025, openRxiv

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  6. Detection of dietary stress and geophagic behaviour forced by dry seasons in Miocene Gomphotherium

    Article • June 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Fernando Rocha, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  7. Supplementary material to "Detection of dietary stress and geophagic behaviour forced by dry seasons in Miocene Gomphotherium"

    Article • June 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Fernando Rocha, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  8. Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) vertebrates from Portugal: An updated review

    Article • Geobios, February 2025, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  9. First insights into the diet of the Atlas brown bear: evidence from Ifri Oussaïd Cave (Middle Atlas, Morocco)

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, December 2024, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  10. The genomic natural history of the aurochs

    Article • Nature, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  11. Alternation between humans and carnivores in the occupations of the Mousterian site of Sopeña rock-shelter (Asturias, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2024, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, jose yravedra

  12. El análisis de huella peptídica del colágeno mediante espectrometría de masas (ZooMS) para la identificación taxonómica en fauna arqueológica

    Article • Pyrenae, January 2024, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  13. Neanderthal subsistence strategies: new evidence from the Mousterian Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, jose yravedra

  14. Neanderthal use of animal bones as retouchers at the Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, November 2023, Wiley

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, jose yravedra

  15. Corrigendum to “To the field of stars: Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago in Navarre and Aragon, Spain” [J. Archaeol. Sci.: Rep. 48 (2023) 103847]

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, August 2023, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  16. Social elite from the power centre of Late Antique Gallaecia? Revisiting San Bartolomé de Rebordáns (Tui, Spain)

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  17. Stable Isotopes and Herding Strategies in Middle Uruk Period in Tell Humeida (Syrian Euphrates Valley)

    Article • Diversity, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  18. Human remains in the Ardines karstic massif: Tito Bustillo and La Lloseta caves (Asturias, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2023, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  19. To the field of stars: Stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago in Navarre and Aragon, Spain

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2023, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  20. Characterising the cave bear Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller by ZooMS: a review of peptide mass fingerprinting markers

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, February 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  21. Isotopic signature in isolated south-western populations of European brown bear (Ursus arctos)

    Article • Mammal Research, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  22. Multi-isotopic study of the earliest mediaeval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  23. Aeolization on the Atlantic coast of Galicia (NW Spain) from the end of the last glacial period to the present day: Chronology, origin and evolution of coastal dunes linked to sea‐level oscillations

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, October 2022, Wiley

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  24. Sorting the riddle of the Neanderthal to anatomically modern human boundary in Sopeña (Asturias, Spain): New dates and a preliminar Bayesian analysis

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, October 2022, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  25. Correction: Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  26. Stable isotope analysis and differences in diet and social status in northern Medieval Christian Spain (9th–13th centuries CE)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2022, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  27. Morphological, isotopic and proteomic study of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna of Cova dos Santos (Abadín, Lugo, NW Spain)

    Article • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, December 2021, Universitat de Valencia

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  28. Quantitative classification of metapodial bones of Ursus spelaeus and Ursus arctos from Northwestern Iberia using multivariate analysis

    Article • November 2021, NOVA.ID.FCT

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  29. Pastures and fodder for feeding equids 3000 years ago: The Can Roqueta site (Barcelona, Spain) as a model of equine herd management

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, November 2021, Wiley

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  30. Equine diet during protohistoric times in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula: Stable isotope data (C, N) from bone collagen

    Article • Data in Brief, October 2021, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  31. Do apex predators need to regulate prey populations to be a right conservation target?

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2021, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  32. Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence

    Article • PLOS One, April 2021, PLOS

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  33. Dogs that Ate Plants: Changes in the Canine Diet During the Late Bronze Age and the First Iron Age in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Journal of World Prehistory, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  34. Biomechanical simulations reveal a trade-off between adaptation to glacial climate and dietary niche versatility in European cave bears

    Article • Science Advances, April 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  35. Conflicting 14C scenarios in the Sopeña cave (northern Iberia): Dating the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary by non-ultrafiltered versus ultrafiltered AMS 14C

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2019, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  36. A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  37. Dogs and foxes in Early-Middle Bronze Age funerary structures in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula: human control of canid diet at the sites of Can Roqueta (Barcelona) and Minferri (Lleida)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  38. Nota sobre la última transgresión marina en la costa de Galicia

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, December 2018, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  39. Eating in silence: isotopic approaches to nuns’ diet at the convent of Santa Catalina de Siena (Belmonte, Spain) from the sixteenth to the twentieth century

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  40. A three-dimensional analysis of tooth-root morphology in living bears and implications for feeding behaviour in the extinct cave bear

    Article • Historical Biology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  41. Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  42. Brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) palaeoecology and diet in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of the NW of the Iberian Peninsula: A study on stable isotopes

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2018, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  43. The cave bear’s hibernation: reconstructing the physiology and behaviour of an extinct animal

    Article • Historical Biology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  44. Mitochondrial DNA of pre-last glacial maximum red deer from NW Spain suggests a more complex phylogeographical history for the species

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2017, Wiley

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  45. Post-glacial colonization of Western Europe brown bears from a cryptic Atlantic refugium out of the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Historical Biology, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  46. Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin

    Article • Current Biology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  47. Análisis genético del individuo de Chan do Lindeiro: caracterización de su mitogenoma y situación de la muestra en el contexto paleogenético europeo

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, March 2017, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  48. Caracterización isotópica de Elba, la mujer mesolítica de Chan do Lindeiro (Pedrafita, Lugo, Península Ibérica)

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, March 2017, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  49. El mundo de una mujer llamada Elba hace 9300 años

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, March 2017, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  50. Preservación de ADN en muestras de úrsidos Pleistocenos y Holocenos del NO de la Península Ibérica

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, March 2017, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  51. Radiometric, isotopic, and petrographic evidence of changing interglacials over the past 550,000 years from six stalagmites from the Serra do Courel in the Cordillera Cantábrica of northwestern Spain

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Cheng Hai, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  52. Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between brown bears and extinct cave bears

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2016, Wiley

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  53. Vida y muerte de dos mujeres de Brigantium (NW de Iberia) mediante isótopos estables y antropología forense

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, October 2015, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  54. Indicios de pastoreo extensivo en el noroeste peninsular durante el dominio suevo

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, October 2015, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  55. Mitochondrial DNA diversity and evolution of the Pleistocene cave bear complex

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mietje B. Germonpré, Prof Ron Pinhasi, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  56. Pitfalls in comparing modern hair and fossil bone collagen C and N isotopic data to reconstruct ancient diets: a case study with cave bears (Ursus spelaeus)

    Article • Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  57. TL estimation of ages of pottery fragments recovered from granite caves in the NW coast of Spain

    Article • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular, December 2013, Universidade da Coruna

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  58. Recognizing growth patterns and maternal strategies in extinct species using stable isotopes: The case of the cave bear Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER

    Article • Quaternary International, December 2011, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  59. Petrographic and isotopic evidence for Holocene long-term climate change and shorter-term environmental shifts from a stalagmite from the Serra do Courel of northwestern Spain, and implications for climatic history across Europe and the Mediterranean

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Cheng Hai, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  60. Withering Away--25,000 Years of Genetic Decline Preceded Cave Bear Extinction

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Ron Pinhasi, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  61. Bite force of the extinct Pleistocene Cave bear Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller from Europe

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, January 2010, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  62. Hibernation can also cause high δ 15 N values in cave bears: A response to Richards et al.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  63. Deciphering bone depositional sequences in caves through the study of manganese coatings

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2006, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  64. Sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation in the skull of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller) of the European Upper Pleistocene

    Article • Geobios, May 2005, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade

  65. A population study on the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Ros.-Hein.)) from Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Galicia, Spain)

    Article • Geobios, January 1997, Elsevier

    Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade