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  1. Las sepulturas del Neolítico final en Humanejos (Parla, Madrid)
  2. Zooarchaeology of the Pre-Bell Beaker Chalcolithic Period of Barrio del Castillo (Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain)
  3. Uncovering Human Tooth Marks in the Search for Dog Domestication: The Case of Coímbre Cave
  4. Taphonomy as a Methodological Approach for the Study of Dog Domestication: Application to the Prehistoric Site of Peña Moñuz (Guadalajara, Spain)
  5. City of Traders: Urbanization, Social Change, and Territorial Control in Medieval Fardowsa (Central Somaliland)
  6. THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC GENETIC STUDY OF A MEMBER OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS’ FAMILY: HIS GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON
  7. Not seen before. Unveiling depositional context and Mammuthus meridionalis exploitation at Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, southern Iberia) through taphonomy and microstratigraphy
  8. Alternation between humans and carnivores in the occupations of the Mousterian site of Sopeña rock-shelter (Asturias, Spain)
  9. Water, gravity, and trophic dynamics in the Misiam palimpsest, Olduvai Gorge
  10. New Evidence for the Bronze Age Zooarchaeology in the Inland Area of the Iberian Peninsula through the Analysis of Pista de Motos (Villaverde Bajo, Madrid)
  11. Estudio zooarqueológico y tafonómico del Yacimiento Calcolítico Las Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid)
  12. Cumulative effect of high‐resolution silicone moulds on the morphology of cut marks
  13. Neanderthal subsistence strategies: new evidence from the Mousterian Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)
  14. Neanderthal use of animal bones as retouchers at the Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, northern Spain)
  15. New virtual approach to the study of metallurgy through the analysis of slice marks from the Chalcolithic site of Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain)
  16. Human occupations of upland and cold environments in inland Spain during the Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Stadial 1: The new Magdalenian sequence of Charco Verde II
  17. Glacial/interglacial climate variability in southern Spain during the late Early Pleistocene and climate backdrop for early Homo in Europe
  18. Aprovechamiento de recursos animales en el yacimiento calcolítico precampaniforme de Aldovea (Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid).
  19. Is Barranco León (1.46 Ma, Orce, Granada, Spain) much more complicated than we think? A reply to Palmqvist et al. (2023)
  20. To den or not to den. Contributions to the taphonomic history of the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena 4 (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin)
  21. An experimental approach to the analysis of altered cut marks in archaeological contexts from Geometrics Morphometrics
  22. Geometric Morphometrics and Machine Learning Models Applied to the Study of Late Iron Age Cut Marks from Central Spain
  23. An Evaluation of Landmark-Based Methods to Explore Tooth Score Morphology: A Case Study on Felids and Hyenids
  24. The fallow deer Dama celiae sp. nov. with two-pointed antlers from the Middle Pleistocene of Madrid, a contemporary of humans with Acheulean technology
  25. Deciphering carnivoran competition for animal resources at the 1.46 Ma early Pleistocene site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)
  26. Synergies Between Geomatics and Biological Sciences for the Creation of New Virtual Materials for Teaching Taphonomy
  27. The interaction between large mammals and Acheulean tools during the Middle Pleistocene in the Manzanares valley (Madrid, Spain): new evidence for Santa Elena and Oxígeno sites
  28. Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)
  29. Ikhnos: A Novel Software to Register and Analyze Bone Surface Modifications Based on Three-Dimensional Documentation
  30. Zooarchaeology of the Iron Age in Western Iberia: new insights from the Celtic oppidum of Ulaca
  31. Taphonomic characterisation of tooth marks of extinct Eurasian carnivores through geometric morphometrics
  32. Unravelling Hominin Activities in the Zooarchaeological Assemblage of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)
  33. Turning Art into Hammers: A Complex Biography of Palaeolithic Portable Art from Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain)
  34. Correction to: Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
  35. Systematization of butchery processes during the last Glacial Maximum in the Cantabrian region, a view from La Lluera cave (Asturias, Spain)
  36. Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE
  37. A real-world approach to identifying animal bones and Lower Pleistocene fossils by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
  38. The hunted or the scavenged? Australopith accumulation by brown hyenas at Sterkfontein (South Africa)
  39. The use of tooth marks for new research into identifying and understanding the first domestic dogs in Palaeolithic populations
  40. Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
  41. Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe
  42. New Geometric Morphometric Insights in Digital Taphonomy: Analyses into the Sexual Dimorphism of Felids through Their Tooth Pits
  43. 3D Insights into the Effects of Captivity on Wolf Mastication and Their Tooth Marks; Implications in Ecological Studies of Both the Past and Present
  44. First modern human settlement recorded in the Iberian hinterland occurred during Heinrich Stadial 2 within harsh environmental conditions
  45. Taphonomic and spatial analyses from the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena 4 (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin, southern Spain)
  46. Oldowan stone knapping and percussive activities on a raw material reservoir deposit 1.4 million years ago at Barranco León (Orce, Spain)
  47. Developments in data science solutions for carnivore tooth pit classification
  48. Towards a Combined Use of Geophysics and Remote Sensing Techniques for the Characterization of a Singular Building: “El Torreón” (the Tower) at Ulaca Oppidum (Solosancho, Ávila, Spain)
  49. A road to nowhere? The non-transitional sequence at El Esquilleu (Cantabria, Spain)
  50. The role of birds in Roman imperial funerary rituals at La Magdalena (Alcalá de Henares, Spain): osteoarchaeological and symbolic analysis
  51. ‘We hunt to share’: social dynamics and very large mammal butchery during the Oldowan–Acheulean transition
  52. Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene
  53. Mammal butchery by Homo erectus at the Lower Pleistocene acheulean site of Juma’s korongo 2 (JK2), bed III, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  54. The effects of prey size on carnivore tooth mark morphologies on bone; the case study of Canis lupus signatus
  55. Obtaining new resolutions in carnivore tooth pit morphological analyses: A methodological update for digital taphonomy
  56. Laser-Induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for the analyses of faunal bones: Assembling of individuals and elemental quantification
  57. Scratches and grazes: a detailed microscopic analysis of trampling phenomena
  58. A Hybrid Geometric Morphometric Deep Learning Approach for Cut and Trampling Mark Classification
  59. Wildcat scats: Taphonomy of the predator and its micromamal prey
  60. The use of canid tooth marks on bone for the identification of livestock predation
  61. Level U3.1, a new archaeological level discovered at BK (upper bed II, Olduvai Gorge) with evidence of megafaunal exploitation
  62. Assessing functionality during the early Acheulean in level TKSF at Thiongo Korongo site (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
  63. Cut marks and raw material exploitation in the lower pleistocene site of Bell's Korongo (BK, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): A geometric morphometric analysis
  64. Middle Pleistocene human occupation in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula during cold climate conditions: Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of ETB-H02 site in the Manzanares valley (Madrid, Spain)
  65. Neanderthal diet in fluvial environments at the end of the Middle Pleistocene/early Late Pleistocene of PRERESA site in the Manzanares Valley (Madrid, Spain)
  66. The Middle to Late Pleistocene herpetofaunal assemblages from the Jarama and Manzanares valleys (Madrid, central Spain): An ecological synthesis
  67. Hominins and Proboscideans in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Central Iberian Peninsula
  68. A geometric-morphometric assessment of three-dimensional models of experimental cut-marks using flint and quartzite flakes and handaxes
  69. Application of geometric morphometrics to the analysis of cut mark morphology on different bones of differently sized animals. Does size really matter?
  70. Applying new technologies to the taphonomic study of La Lluera (Asturias, Spain). Geometric morphometrics and the study of bone surface modifications (BSM)
  71. Approaching raw material functionality in the Upper Magdalenian of Coímbre cave (Asturias, Spain) through geometric morphometrics
  72. Combining machine learning algorithms and geometric morphometrics: A study of carnivore tooth marks
  73. First assessments of the taphonomic behaviour of jaguar (Panthera onca)
  74. Geometric-morphometric analysis of tooth pits and the identification of felid and hyenid agency in bone modification
  75. New taphonomic advances in 3D digital microscopy: A morphological characterisation of trampling marks
  76. New technologies applied to modelling taphonomic alterations
  77. Who ate OH80 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)? A geometric-morphometric analysis of surface bone modifications of a Paranthropus boisei skeleton
  78. New technologies applied to archaeology. Contributions of photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics to the resolution of taphonomic issues
  79. Characterising leopard as taphonomic agent through the use of micro-photogrammetric reconstruction of tooth marks and pit to score ratio
  80. Classifying agency in bone breakage: an experimental analysis of fracture planes to differentiate between hominin and carnivore dynamic and static loading using machine learning (ML) algorithms
  81. Automated identification and deep classification of cut marks on bones and its paleoanthropological implications
  82. Lagomorph exploitation during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. New evidence from Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain)
  83. Spilled ink blots the mind: A reply to Merrit et al. (2018) on subjectivity and bone surface modifications
  84. The exploitation of hunted resources during the Magdalenian in the Cantabrian region. Systematization of butchery processes at Coímbre cave (Asturias, Spain)
  85. Striped hyenas as bone modifiers in dual human-to-carnivore experimental models
  86. Testing accuracy in 2D and 3D geometric morphometric methods for cut mark identification and classification
  87. Differentiating percussion pits and carnivore tooth pits using 3D reconstructions and geometric morphometrics
  88. Datação direta e análise de paleodietas dos indivíduos da Anta de Cabeceira 4.ª (Mora, Évora)
  89. Recurrent Magdalenian occupation in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula: new insights from the archaeological site of La Peña de Estebanvela (Segovia, Spain)
  90. Economic implications of livestock management strategies in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, Tagus Basin, and Mancha Alta region between the VIII and XI centuries AD
  91. Biotic and abiotic processes affecting the formation of BK Level 4c (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge) and their bearing on hominin behavior at the site
  92. Discerning carnivore agency through the three-dimensional study of tooth pits: Revisiting crocodile feeding behaviour at FLK- Zinj and FLK NN3 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
  93. On applications of micro-photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics to studies of tooth mark morphology: The modern Olduvai Carnivore Site (Tanzania)
  94. The paleoecology and taphonomy of AMK (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge) and its contributions to the understanding of the “Zinj” paleolandscape
  95. 3D analysis of cut marks using a new geometric morphometric methodological approach
  96. Hominin and carnivore interactions during the Early Pleistocene in Western Europe
  97. New evidences of exploitation of faunal remains in the Upper Palaeolithic in N Spain
  98. Use and abuse of cut mark analyses: The Rorschach effect
  99. Site function and lithic technology in the Acheulean technocomplex: a case study from Thiongo Korongo (TK), Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  100. Flint and Quartzite: Distinguishing Raw Material Through Bone Cut Marks
  101. Statistical Comparison between Low-Cost Methods for 3D Characterization of Cut-Marks on Bones
  102. The use of Micro-Photogrammetry and Geometric Morphometrics for identifying carnivore agency in bone assemblages
  103. Subsistencia, movilidad y adaptación al medio de los cazadores-recolectores gravetienses en el sector occidental de la región cantábrica: la cueva de Coímbre (Asturias)
  104. A context for the last Neandertals of interior Iberia: Los Casares cave revisited
  105. Pandora : A new morphometric and statistical software for analysing and distinguishing cut marks on bones
  106. Assessment of statistical agreement of three techniques for the study of cut marks: 3D digital microscope, laser scanning confocal microscopy and micro-photogrammetry
  107. Fluvial spatial taphonomy: a new method for the study of post-depositional processes
  108. Spatial simulation and modelling of the early Pleistocene site of DS (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): a powerful tool for predicting potential archaeological information from unexcavated areas
  109. SHK Extension: a new archaeological window in the SHK fluvial landscape of Middle Bed II (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
  110. FLK West (Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): a new early Acheulean site with evidence for human exploitation of fauna
  111. A new approach to raw material use in the exploitation of animal carcasses at BK (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): a micro-photogrammetric and geometric morphometric analysis of fossil cut marks
  112. Micro-photogrammetric and morphometric differentiation of cut marks on bones using metal knives, quartzite, and flint flakes
  113. The larger mammal palimpsest from TK (Thiongo Korongo), Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  114. On the use of space at La Peña de Estebanvela (Ayllón, Segovia, Spain): An approach to economic and social behaviour in the Upper Magdalenian
  115. Hominin-Carnivore Adaptive Strategies in Western Europe During the Early Pleistocene
  116. Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage from Olduvai Gorge
  117. Not so deserted…paleoecology and human subsistence in Central Iberia (Guadalajara, Spain) around the Last Glacial Maximum
  118. The Magdalenian sequence at Coímbre cave (Asturias, Northern Iberian Peninsula): Adaptive strategies of hunter–gatherer groups in montane environments
  119. New evidence of use of bones as fuel
  120. An experimental lion-to-hammerstone model and its relevance to understand hominin-carnivore interactions in the archeological record
  121. The Origin of The Acheulean: The 1.7 Million-Year-Old Site of FLK West, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
  122. Vegetation, climate and human settlement interactions at the late Mesolithic site of Cueva Blanca (Hellín, Albacete, SE Spain)
  123. Micro-photogrammetric characterization of cut marks on bones
  124. Another window to the subsistence of Middle Pleistocene hominins in Europe: A taphonomic study of Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
  125. A new methodological approach to the taphonomic study of paleontological and archaeological faunal assemblages: a preliminary case study from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
  126. Campaniforme no funerario en la provincia de Toledo: el yacimiento de Las Vegas. De nuevo el Valle de Huecas
  127. Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence strategies in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain
  128. Biocronología de la Terraza Compleja de Butarque del río Manzanares en el Estanque de Tormentas al sur de Madrid (España)
  129. Neanderthal exploitation of ibex and chamois in southwestern Europe
  130. Specialised hunting of Iberian ibex during Neanderthal occupation at El Esquilleu Cave, northern Spain
  131. The Middle Paleolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain): a perspective on the Acheulean and Middle Paleolithic technocomplexes in Europe
  132. Taphonomic implications for the Late Mousterian of South-West Europe at Esquilleu Cave (Spain)
  133. Manzanares Valley (Madrid, Spain): A good country for Proboscideans and Neanderthals
  134. Neanderthal and Mammuthus interactions at EDAR Culebro 1 (Madrid, Spain)
  135. A critical re-evaluation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore interactions through a multivariate approach: Application to the FLK Zinj archaeofaunal assemblage (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
  136. On meat eating and human evolution: A taphonomic analysis of BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), and its bearing on hominin megafaunal consumption
  137. Study of the SHK Main Site faunal assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Implications for Bed II taphonomy, paleoecology, and hominin utilization of megafauna
  138. Autochthonous anisotropy of archaeological materials by the action of water: experimental and archaeological reassessment of the orientation patterns at the Olduvai sites
  139. Zooarqueología de los macrovertebrados del yacimiento fenicio del Teatro Cómico (Cádiz)
  140. First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  141. A taphonomic study of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)
  142. Los orígenes del Solutrense y la ocupación pleniglaciar del interior de la Península Ibérica: implicaciones del nivel 3 de Peña Capón (valle del Sorbe, Guadalajara)
  143. The deliberate use of bones for fuel or for systematic disposal of organic waste
  144. A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior: a comparison of bone modification patterns on long bones by captive and wild lions
  145. Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  146. New Contributions on Subsistence Practices during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in Northern Spain
  147. Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  148. Human landscapes of the Late Glacial Period in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula: La Peña de Estebanvela (Segovia, Spain)
  149. Caracterización del yacimiento de Cueva Blanca (Hellín, Albacete). Nuevas aportaciones para el debate en torno a la transición del Mesolítico al Neolítico antiguo en el Sureste peninsular
  150. Autochthony and orientation patterns in Olduvai Bed I: a re-examination of the status of post-depositional biasing of archaeological assemblages from FLK North (FLKN)
  151. A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores
  152. Elephants and subsistence. Evidence of the human exploitation of extremely large mammal bones from the Middle Palaeolithic site of PRERESA (Madrid, Spain)
  153. Human behaviour and adaptations to MIS 3 palaeoecological trends in northern Spain
  154. Disentangling hominin and carnivore activities near a spring at FLK North (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
  155. New excavations at the FLK Zinjanthropus site and its surrounding landscape and their behavioral implications
  156. Was FLK North levels 1–2 a classic “living floor” of Oldowan hominins or a taphonomically complex palimpsest dominated by large carnivore feeding behavior?
  157. Cut marks on the Middle Pleistocene elephant carcass of Áridos 2 (Madrid, Spain)
  158. Unraveling hominin behavior at another anthropogenic site from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): new archaeological and taphonomic research at BK, Upper Bed II
  159. Why are cut mark frequencies in archaeofaunal assemblages so variable? A multivariate analysis
  160. The shaft-based methodological approach to the quantification of long limb bones and its relevance to understanding hominid subsistence in the Pleistocene: application to four Palaeolithic sites
  161. Determination of the fracture processes of fresh bone: an analytical system of the angles of fracture planes as an indicator of biotic agents
  162. Estado de la cuestión sobre la subsistencia del Musteriense de la vertiente mediterránea de la Península Ibérica
  163. Presente y futuro de las técnicas aplicadas al estudio de la estacionalidad