Collection
Microvertebrate Studies in Archaeological Contexts: Middle Paleolithic to early Holocene past environments
This collection focuses on new insights and reconstructions of past environments from the Middle Paleolithic to the early Holocene of Europe, Asia and South America derived from microvertebrate studies. In general, small vertebrates are very sensitive proxies used to reconstruct the environment of the past, especially due to their rapid response to climate change, small home range and restricted habitat requirements.
Editors
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Juan Manuel López-García
My interdisciplinary background allows me to work at the interface between Earth Sciences (Paleontology) and Humanities (Prehistory-Archaeology), as shown by most of my track record in Quartile Q1 belonging to Geosciences Areas: History degree (2004, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona) followed by a PhD degree in Prehistory at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), rewarded with Excellent Cum Laude and extraordinary departmental award (1/10/2008). The main interest during my career was poured into the fossil small mammal studies.
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Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Currently researcher in the Department of Micropaleontology of the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana y Evolució Social and the Department of Prehistory of University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. I’m mainly engaged in the study of the amphibians and reptiles from the Iberian Plio-Pleistocene and their use as paleoecological and paleoclimatological proxy in relation with human paleoecology, and forms part of the research teams of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos), Guadix-Baza Basin (Granada), Almenara-Casablanca (Castellón), Quibas (Murcia), Pinilla del Valle (Madrid), Caldes de Malavella (Girona), Azokh (Nagorno Karabakh), Guefait.
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Sara E. Rhodes
After earning my Bachelors and Masters at the University of Toronto (Canada), I completed a doctorate of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat) at the University of Tübingen (Germany) in 2019. My dissertation recreated the paleoenvironment of the Ach Valley, Germany, during the period between 60,000 and 35,000 cal BP when modern humans replaced Neanderthal groups in the region (Rhodes et al., 2018, 2019; Rhodes 2019; Rhodes & Conard, 2021). In 2020, I was awarded a DAAD Postdoctoral Researcher International Mobility Experience (PRIME) fellowship to conduct research at the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and University of Toronto (Canad
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Ángel Blanco-Lapaz
Is the Collection Manager for Archaezoology and Archaeobotany Collections at University of Tübingen and Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Articles (6 in this collection)
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New insights in Neanderthal palaeoecology using stable oxygen isotopes preserved in small mammals as palaeoclimatic tracers in Teixoneres Cave (Moià, northeastern Iberia)
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Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on the small vertebrates from the Middle Paleolithic of Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany
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Palaeoecological reconstructions of the Middle to Late Pleistocene occupations in the Southern Caucasus using rodent assemblages
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The last interglacial-glacial cycle in the Meuse Valley (southern Belgium) inferred from the amphibian and reptile assemblages: implications for Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans
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