Search Results - "Jimenez Arenas, Juan Manuel"
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Subspheroids in the lithic assemblage of Barranco León (Spain): Recognizing the late Oldowan in Europe
Published in PloS one (01-01-2020)“…The lithic assemblage of Barranco León (BL), attributed to the Oldowan techno-complex, contributes valuable information to reconstruct behavioral patterning of…”
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Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-09-2021)“…The Guadix-Baza Basin (GBB) in Andalucía, Spain, comprises palaeontological and archaeological sites dating from the Early Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene,…”
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Refining upon the climatic background of the Early Pleistocene hominid settlement in western Europe: Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-07-2016)“…The Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain) have yielded thousands of Mode 1 or Oldowan lithic artifacts…”
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New stratigraphically constrained palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the first human settlement in Western Europe: The Early Pleistocene herpetofaunal assemblages from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, SE Spain)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-09-2020)“…The Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain) have yielded abundant Oldowan lithic artifacts and one hominin…”
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Amphibian body size and species richness as a proxy for primary productivity and climate: The Orce wetlands (Early Pleistocene, Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-01-2022)“…Amphibians are considered excellent indicators of ecological and climatic changes with a remarkable phenotypic plasticity. The study of such adaptative…”
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Geochemical and sedimentary constraints on the formation of the Venta Micena early Pleistocene site (Guadix-Baza Basin, Spain)
Published in Scientific reports (17-11-2021)“…Despite the paleontological relevance of the terrestrial Early Pleistocene Venta Micena bonebed (Baza Basin, Spain), it lacks a comprehensive…”
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The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris: Modelling the bone-cracking behavior of an extinct carnivore
Published in Quaternary international (19-10-2011)“…The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest bone-cracking carnivore that ever existed. With the mass of a lioness, it had massive limbs with…”
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Greening a lost world: Paleoartistic investigations of the early Pleistocene vegetation landscape in the first Europeans' homeland
Published in Quaternary science advances (01-06-2024)“…The scarcity of pictorial reconstructions focusing on Quaternary flora and vegetation prompts a reevaluation of traditional zoocentrism in future paleoartistic…”
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Taphonomic and spatial analyses from the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena 4 (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin, southern Spain)
Published in Scientific reports (07-07-2021)“…Venta Micena is an area containing several palaeontological sites marking the beginning of the Calabrian stage (Early Pleistocene). The richness of the fossil…”
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Towards a Middle Pleistocene terrestrial climate reconstruction based on herpetofaunal assemblages from the Iberian Peninsula: State of the art and perspectives
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-07-2018)“…The pattern of the varying climatic conditions in southern Europe over the last million years is well known from isotope studies on deep-ocean sediment cores…”
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Deciphering carnivoran competition for animal resources at the 1.46 Ma early Pleistocene site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-01-2023)“…Barranco León (Orce, Guadix Baza, Spain) is one of the sites with the oldest evidence of human activity in south-western Europe. This site has yielded human…”
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Glacial/interglacial climate variability in southern Spain during the late Early Pleistocene and climate backdrop for early Homo in Europe
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-09-2023)“…The oldest evidence of a human presence in western Europe is currently documented at the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3…”
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The oldest handaxes in Europe: fact or artefact?
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-12-2011)“…Hominin presence is well documented in a number of Early Pleistocene and early Middle Pleistocene European localities. However, the evidence currently…”
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To den or not to den. Contributions to the taphonomic history of the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena 4 (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-05-2023)“…Venta Micena (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin, Spain) is an Early Pleistocene locality renowned for the richness and quality of its palaeontological record. VM is…”
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Not seen before. Unveiling depositional context and Mammuthus meridionalis exploitation at Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, southern Iberia) through taphonomy and microstratigraphy
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-04-2024)“…Meat consumption by early hominins is a hotly debated issue. A key question concerns their access to large mammal carcasses, including megafauna. Currently,…”
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Taphonomic characterisation of tooth marks of extinct Eurasian carnivores through geometric morphometrics
Published in Science bulletin (31-08-2022)“…[Display omitted]…”
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Integration of an archaeological database in a virtual reality environment: Venta Micena, Orce (Granada, Spain) archaeological site
Published in Science and technology of archaeological research (31-12-2024)“…Virtual reality and databases are two technological domains employed in many scientific fields. In archeology, several works are being developed along these…”
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Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
Published in Archaeological and anthropological sciences (01-12-2021)“…Over the last few decades, several types of evidence such as presence of hominin remains, lithic assemblages, and bones with anthropogenic surface…”
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Oldowan stone knapping and percussive activities on a raw material reservoir deposit 1.4 million years ago at Barranco León (Orce, Spain)
Published in Archaeological and anthropological sciences (01-07-2021)“…Barranco León (Orce, Andalusia, Spain) provides the oldest case of knapping and percussive activities on an ancient raw material reservoir deposit. This site…”
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