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  1. Mining tools from the prehistoric quarries in Serra Llarga (NE Iberia): Preliminary results from lithological and techno-morphological approaches

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  2. El poblado de Plansallosa (Tortellà-Girona) en el contexto de las estructuras habitacionales neolíticas al aire libre en el noreste de la península ibérica (5600-4500 cal BC)

    Article • Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series, July 2025, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  3. El complejo funerario Neolítico de la Cova del Pasteral (La Cellera de Ter, Girona)

    Article • Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series, June 2025, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  4. Go With the Flow: Microfacies Analysis for Uncovering Occupation Patterns, Waste Management, and Water Adaptation at La Draga Lakeside Settlement (Lake Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • Geoarchaeology, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  5. Entre cereales y frutos silvestres: el aprovechamiento y la gestión de los recursos vegetales en los niveles epicardiales (4941-4458 cal BC) de Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Tarragona)

    Article • Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series, April 2025, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  6. Configuración y tecnología de elementos geométricos en Coves del Fem: una aproximación cronoestratigráfica (6000-4500 CAL ane)

    Article • Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series, April 2025, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  7. La secuencia estratigráfica de Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Tarragona) y la implantación de la formas de vida neolíticas en la sierra del Montsant

    Article • Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series, April 2025, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  8. 3D hypothetical reconstruction of a Neolithic hut from the waterlogged site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • Virtual Archaeology Review, February 2025, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  9. Within and Beyond: Chert Procurement Patterns During The Upper Palaeolithic in Southwesternmost Iberia

    Article • Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  10. Diamonds in the rough - reconsidering the scientific and heritage value of heat-altered stones in prehistoric archaeology through a systematic literature review

    Article • Open Research Europe, November 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  11. Why was agriculture adopted in Europe?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xavier Terradas, Jose Araus

  12. Water Table Fluctuations and Degradation Risk Assessment at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  13. From Galena to Lead: Divergent Paths in Early Metallurgy in the Western Mediterranean

    Article • METALLA, December 2023, Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  14. Creating frames of reference for chert exploitation during the Late Pleistocene in Southwesternmost Iberia

    Article • PLOS One, October 2023, PLOS

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  15. Nuevo hallazgo de arte mueble de estilo Paleolítico en el Noreste peninsular: la plaqueta grabada de les Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Tarragona)

    Article • Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, September 2023, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  16. ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY AT THE WATERLOGGED SITE OF LA DRAGA (LAKE BANYOLES, NE IBERIA): BAYESIAN CHRONOLOGICAL MODELS INTEGRATING TREE-RING MEASUREMENT, RADIOCARBON DATES AND MICRO-STRATIGRAPHICAL DATA

    Article • Radiocarbon, September 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xavier Terradas, Dr. Irka Hajdas

  17. Rockview: Archaeometric Analysis of Silicites to Reconstruct Prehistoric Raw Material Sourcing

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  18. Woody and non-woody forest raw material at the early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • February 2022, JSTOR

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  19. From Anatolia to Algarve: Assessing the Early Stages of Neolithisation Processes in Europe

    Article • Open Archaeology, January 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  20. Los objetos elaborados con fibras vegetales del Neolítico Antiguo de Coves del Fem, Ulldemolins (Tarragona)

    Article • Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, December 2021, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  21. EXPERIMENTACIÓN EN TORNO AL PROYECTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE EL YACIMIENTO NEOLÍTICO DE LA DRAGA (BANYOLES-GIRONA)

    Article • Boletín de Arqueología Experimental, September 2021, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  22. Management systems of adhesive materials throughout the Neolithic in the North-West Mediterranean

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  23. Models of Neolithisation of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula: New Evidence of Human Occupations During the Sixth Millennium cal BC

    Article • Open Archaeology, January 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  24. Use of fungi for tinder at the Early Neolithic settlement of La Draga (NE Iberia)

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  25. The status of imported Barremian-Bedoulian flint in north-eastern Iberia during the Middle Neolithic. Insights from the variscite mines of Gavà (Barcelona)

    Article • PLOS One, November 2019, PLOS

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  26. Punk’s not dead. Fungi for tinder at the Neolithic site of La Draga (NE Iberia)

    Article • PLOS One, April 2018, PLOS

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  27. Approaching subsistence activities in the Mesolithic by means of lithic tools: The case of El Collado site (Oliva, Eastern Iberia)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  28. Human-environment interaction during the Mesolithic- Neolithic transition in the NE Iberian Peninsula. Vegetation history, climate change and human impact during the Early-Middle Holocene in the Eastern Pre-Pyrenees

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Eneko Iriarte, Dr Xavier Terradas

  29. The Neolithic expansion in the Western Mediterranean: Understanding a global phenomenon from regional perspectives

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Niccolò Mazzucco, Dr Xavier Terradas

  30. Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the northeast of Iberia: Chronology and socioeconomic dynamics

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  31. High-Throughput DNA sequencing of ancient wood

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Xavier Terradas, Katarina Cufar

  32. Reverse Engineering in Prehistory

    Article • February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  33. The production and use of cordage at the early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary International, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  34. Flint quarrying in north-eastern Iberia: quarry sites and the initial transformation of raw material

    Article • Antiquity, September 2017, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  35. The consumption of molluscs in the first farming societies: the Neolithic settlement of La Draga (northeast of the Iberian Peninsula)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  36. Use of space and site formation processes in a Neolithic lakeside settlement. Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs spatial analysis in La Draga (Banyoles, NE Iberia)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  37. The chert from the Castelltallat Formation (south-central Pyrenees): archaeometric characterisation and archaeological implications

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  38. Territory and abiotic resources between 33 and 15.6 ka at Vale Boi (SW Portugal)

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  39. The Neolithic Necropolis of La Feixa del Moro (Juberri, Andorra): New data on the first farming communities in the Pyrenees

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, April 2016, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Dr Niccolò Mazzucco, Ms Maria Fontanals-Coll, Dr Xavier Terradas

  40. Lydia Zapata (1965-2015), un recuerdo sentido a una excelente investigadora y compañera inseparable

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, December 2015, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  41. Mid-Holocene vegetation history and Neolithic land-use in the Lake Banyoles area (Girona, Spain)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Eneko Iriarte, Dr Xavier Terradas

  42. Releyendo el fenómeno de la neolitización en el Bajo Aragón a la luz de la excavación del Cingle de Valmayor XI (Mequinenza, Zaragoza)

    Article • Zephyrvs, June 2015, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca

    Dr Niccolò Mazzucco, Dr Xavier Terradas

  43. Characterizing prehistoric archery: technical and functional analyses of the Neolithic bows from La Draga (NE Iberian Peninsula)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  44. The Emergence of Mesolithic Cemeteries in SW Europe: Insights from the El Collado (Oliva, Valencia, Spain) Radiocarbon Record

    Article • PLOS One, January 2015, PLOS

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  45. A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, October 2014, Maney Publishing

    Dr Andrea L Balbo, Dr Xavier Terradas

  46. Prehistoric Occupation of Banyoles Lakeshore: Results of Recent Excavations at La Draga Site, Girona, Spain

    Article • Journal of Wetland Archaeology, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  47. Landscape transformation and economic practices among the first farming societies in Lake Banyoles

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, August 2014, Maney Publishing

    Jordi Revelles, Dr Xavier Terradas

  48. Neolithic diffusion of obsidian in the western Mediterranean: new data from Iberia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Xavier Terradas, Mr Bernard Gratuze, Dr F. Xavier Oms Arias

  49. The Application of Systematic Sampling Strategies for Bioarchaeological Studies in the Early Neolithic Lakeshore Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Wetland Archaeology, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  50. Les occupations d’Umm-el-Tlel (Syrie centrale) pendant le Kébarien géométrique. Étude du niveau I.2.A (campagnes 1991, 1992 et 1994)

    Article • Paléorient, January 2013, PERSEE Program

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  51. Tools for production, goods for reproduction. The function of knapped stone tools at the Neolithic necropolis of Can Gambus-1 (Sabadell, Spain)

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, September 2012, Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  52. La necrópolis de Can Gambús-1 (Sabadell, Barcelona). Nuevos conocimientos sobre las prácticas funerarias durante el Neolítico medio en el Noreste de la Península Ibérica

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, June 2010, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  53. IS THE MACROSCOPIC CLASSIFICATION OF FLINT USEFUL? A PETROARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FLINT RAW MATERIALS FROM THE IBERIAN NEOLITHIC MINE OF CASA MONTERO*

    Article • Archaeometry, March 2009, Wiley

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  54. Ethnoarchaeological research in Tierra del Fuego (1986-2006): thoughts for european prehistoric archaeology

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, December 2007, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  55. La gestión social del sílex melado durante el Neolítico medio en el nordeste de la Península Ibérica

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, June 2002, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Xavier Terradas

  56. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria)

    Article • JSTOR

    Dr Xavier Terradas