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  1. The first Large Flake Acheulean in Europe at Revilleja de Valparaíso site, Hortigüela, Spain

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2026, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  2. Late Neandertal occupations in a Galician mountain valley during MIS 3: Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo, NW Iberia)

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2026, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  3. From Canis mosbachensis to modern wolves: Canid evolutionary insights from the Early and Middle Pleistocene of Atapuerca (Spain)

    Article • The Anatomical Record, May 2026, Wiley

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  4. Expanding the Faunal Interpretation of the Cova Eirós (NW Iberia) Middle Paleolithic–Early Upper Paleolithic Record With ZooMS

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, April 2026, Wiley

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  5. The technology of the first Europeans

    Article • Historical Biology, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  6. Landscape and subsistence in NW Iberia during the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS3): Faunal analysis of Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Galicia, Spain)

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

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  7. The earliest human face of Western Europe

    Article • Nature, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  8. An archaic European face more than one million years old

    Article • Nature, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  9. The earliest human occupation of Atapuerca in the European context

    Article • L Anthropologie, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  10. El fin del estilo paleolítico: un caso de estudio en el Noroeste peninsular

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

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  11. The Palaeolithic Rock Art of Northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain)

    Article • September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  12. The Technological Multiplicity of the Acheulean of the Southern Iberian Peninsula

    Article • L Anthropologie, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  13. To be or not to be a lithic tool: analysing the limestone pieces of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain)

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

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  14. Co-creation Processes Contributing to the Societal Impact of Science: Contributions from the Net4Impact Network

    Article • International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, March 2022, Hipatia Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  15. The large flake Acheulean with spheroids from Santa Ana Cave (Cáceres, Spain)

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

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  16. ANÁLISIS LOCACIONAL DEL YACIMIENTO PALEOLÍTICO DE COVA EIRÓS (TRIACASTELA, LUGO)

    Article • Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, December 2021, APEQ Associacao Portuguesa para o Estudo do Quaternario

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  17. Contexto crono-estratigráfico y cultural del conjunto lítico de Base Menacho (cuenca del río Guadiana, Badajoz, España): primeros resultados

    Article • Cuaternario y Geomorfología, December 2021, AEQUA & SEG

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  18. Georges Laplace (1918-2004).

    Article • December 2021, JSTOR

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  19. Between two worlds: Cova Eirós and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in NW Iberia

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, November 2021, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  20. Cova Eirós (Galicia, Spain): The ‘Finisterre’ of Paleolithic cave art

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  21. The dawn of the Middle Paleolithic in Atapuerca: the lithic assemblage of TD10.1 from Gran Dolina

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  22. Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  23. Avoiding the Blue and Black/White and Gold Argument: an Automated Colour Reference System Applied to Lithic Refit Processes

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  24. Vaso con decoración cardial de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, June 2019, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  25. Lithic refits as a tool to reinforce postdepositional analysis

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

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  26. 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

  27. The use of “second rate” raw materials during Middle Palaeolithic. Technological and functional analysis of two sites in north-eastern Iberia

    Article • L Anthropologie, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  28. Estudio de la cerámica medieval de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

    Article • Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, August 2018, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  29. Shedding light on the Early Pleistocene of TD6 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain): The technological sequence and occupational inferences

    Article • PLOS One, January 2018, PLOS

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  30. Evidence of paleoecological changes and Mousterian occupations at the Galería de las Estatuas site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Iberian plateau, Spain

    Article • Quaternary Research, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  31. The influence of raw material quality on the characteristics of the lithic tool edges from the Atapuerca sites (Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  32. Quartz and quartzite refits at Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos): Connecting lithic artefacts in the Middle Pleistocene unit of TD10.1

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  33. Level TE9c of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain): A comprehensive approach

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  34. Cova Eirós: An Integrated Approach to Dating the Earliest Known Cave Art in NW Iberia

    Article • Radiocarbon, February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  35. Recent archaeo-palaeontological findings from Barranca del Muerto site, Santiago Chazumba, Oaxaca, México

    Article • Quaternary International, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  36. The use of quartz during the Lower Palaeolithic in northeastern Iberia

    Article • Quaternary International, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  37. Last Neanderthals and first Anatomically Modern Humans in the NW Iberian Peninsula: Climatic and environmental conditions inferred from the Cova Eirós small-vertebrate assemblage during MIS 3

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  38. The Acheulean from Atapuerca: Three steps forward, one step back

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  39. The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene technology

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  40. The Middle Pleistocene site of La Cansaladeta (Tarragona, Spain): Stratigraphic and archaeological succession

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  41. The first peopling of Europe and technological change during the Lower-Middle Pleistocene transition

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  42. The lithic industry of Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) in the context of Early and Middle Pleistocene technology in Europe

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  43. The influence of raw material qualities in the lithic technology of Gran Dolina (Units TD6 and TD10) and Galería (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain): A view from experimental archeology

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, September 2014, Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  44. Atapuerca: evolution of scientific collaboration in an emergent large-scale research infrastructure

    Article • Scientometrics, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  45. EL YACIMIENTO DE VALVERDE (MONFORTE DE LEMOS, LUGO, GALICIA, ESPAÑA) Y LAS PRIMERAS EVIDENCIAS DE POBLAMIENTO EN EL PLENIGLACIAR DEL NO DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA

    Article • Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie I Prehistoria y Arqueología, September 2013, UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  46. The Early and Middle Pleistocene technological record from Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  47. From Atapuerca to Europe: Tracing the earliest peopling of Europe

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  48. Las ocupaciones humanas del sitio arqueológico de Santa Inés, Laguna de Tagua Tagua, Chile central

    Article • Revista Chilena de Antropología, March 2013, Universidad de Chile

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  49. The Lower Palaeolithic on the northern plateau of the Iberian Peninsula (Sierra de Atapuerca, Ambrona and La Maya I): a technological analysis of the cutting edge and weight of artefacts. Developing an hypothetical model

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  50. La gestión del utillaje de piedra tallada en el Paleolítico Medio de Galicia. El nivel 3 de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, December 2011, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  51. Lithic refitting and movement connections: the NW area of level TD10-1 at the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  52. One million years of cultural evolution in a stable environment at Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  53. La gestion du quartz au Pléistocène moyen et supérieur. Trois exemples d’Europe Méridionale

    Article • L Anthropologie, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  54. Geomorphological and geoarchaeological evolution of the Monforte de Lemos basin (Galicia , Spain). Erosion phases and post-depositional processes in NW Iberia

    Article • Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, December 2010, APEQ Associacao Portuguesa para o Estudo do Quaternario

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  55. Early hominid dispersals: A technological hypothesis for “out of Africa”

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  56. The European Earliest Technologies from the Atapuerca Perspective

    Article • Communication on Contemporary Anthropology, January 2010, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  57. The Early and Middle Pleistocene Technological Record from Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Communication on Contemporary Anthropology, January 2010, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  58. Eurasian Gates: The Earliest Human Dispersals

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Research, July 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  59. The first hominin of Europe

    Article • Nature, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  60. Valle de las Orquídeas: an Upper Pleistocene open-air site at Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos)

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

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  61. The emergence of technology: A cultural step or long-term evolution?

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, March 2007, Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  62. The first human settlement of Mediterranean Europe

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, January 2006, Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  63. An Early Pleistocene hominin mandible from Atapuerca-TD6, Spain

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  64. Technical Systems of Lithic Production in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula: Technological variability between north-eastern sites and Sierra de Atapuerca sites

    Article • January 2004, BAR Publishing

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  65. Les premiers comportements funéraires auraient-ils pris place à Atapuerca, il y a 350 000 ans ?

    Article • L Anthropologie, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ, Dr Andreu Ollé

  66. Structure morphotechnique de l'industrie lithique du Pléistocène inférieur et moyen d'Atapuerca (Burgos, Espagne)

    Article • L Anthropologie, April 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  67. Historique des découvertes préhistoriques de la Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Espagne) et perspectives du futur

    Article • L Anthropologie, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  68. El Pleistoceno inferior de la Península Ibérica

    Article • SPAL Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla, January 2000, Secretariado de Publicaciones Universidad de Sevilla

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  69. The Pleistocene site of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: a history of the archaeological investigations

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, September 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  70. The TD6 level lithic industry from Gran Dolina, Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain): production and use

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, September 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  71. The TD6 (Aurora stratum) hominid site. Final remarks and new questions

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, September 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Andreu Ollé, Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  72. Out of Africa: The Dispersal of the Earliest Technical Systems Reconsidered

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, June 1999, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  73. The First Human Settlement of Europe

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Research, April 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  74. Lower Pleistocene hominids and artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)

    Article • Science, August 1995, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  75. Kuldara: Earliest Human Occupation in Central Asia in Its Afro-Asian Context

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 1995, University of Chicago Press

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

  76. Early Middle Pleistocene deposits and artefacts in the Gran Dolina site (TD4) of the 'Sierra de Atapuerca' (Burgos, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, April 1994, Elsevier

    Dr XOSE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ