List of works - João Zilhão

A 400,000-year-old Acheulean assemblage associated with the Aroeira-3 human cranium (Gruta da Aroeira, Almonda karst system, Portugal)

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A Common Genetic Origin for Early Farmers from Mediterranean Cardial and Central European LBK Cultures ⬇️

scientific article

A tale of two gorges: Late Quaternary site formation and surface dynamics in the Mula basin (Murcia, Spain)

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Abrigo de la Quebrada Level IV (Valencia, Spain): Interpreting a Middle Palaeolithic Palimpsest from a Zooarchaeological and Lithic Perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 September 2018

Aliens from Outer Time? Why the “Human Revolution” Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here?

article by João Zilhão published 2011 in Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals

scientific article

Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo

scientific article

Aproximación al aprovisionamiento de materias primas líticas en el yacimiento del Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia)

Assessing site formation and assemblage integrity through stone tool refitting at Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal): A Middle Paleolithic case study

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) from the Peştera cu Oase (Banat, Romania): Paleobiology and taphonomy

article by Jérôme Quilès et al published December 2006 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

Chapter 6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking

Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

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Climate, environment and human behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencia, Spain): The evidence from charred plant and micromammal remains

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Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

scholarly article published in Journal of Human Evolution

Cova del Rinoceront (Castelldefels, Barcelona): a terrestrial record for the Last Interglacial period (MIS 5) in the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula

scholarly article

Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain

scientific article published in 2022

Cueva Antón: A multi-proxy MIS 3 to MIS 5a paleoenvironmental record for SE Iberia

scholarly article

Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable

scientific article published in 2018

Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go

scholarly article

Dental maturational sequence and dental tissue proportions in the early Upper Paleolithic child from Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal

scientific article (publication date: 26 January 2010)

Diachronic variation in the Middle Paleolithic settlement of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Spain)

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Did Neandertals think like us?

scientific article published in June 2010

Early Food Production in Southwestern Europe

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Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France

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Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published in Nature

Formation processes at a high resolution Middle Paleolithic site: Cueva Antón (Murcia, Spain)

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Further lessons in integrity: A final reply to Robert Bednarik

Genes, Fossils, and Culture. An Overview of the Evidence for Neandertal–Modern Human Interaction and Admixture

article

Heated flint TL-dating for Gruta da Oliveira (Portugal): dosimetric challenges and comparison of chronometric data

article

Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Hunting strategy and seasonality in the last interglacial occupation of Cueva Antón (Murcia, Spain)

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Identification of local and allochthonous flint artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithical site ‘Abrigo de la Quebrada’ (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) by macroscopic and physicochemical methods

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Identification of the last glacial maximum in the Upper Paleolithic of Portugal using magnetic susceptibility measurements of Caldeirão Cave sediments

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In glacial environments beyond glacial terrains: Human eco-dynamics in late Pleistocene Mediterranean Iberia

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Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

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Isotopic evidence for omnivory among European cave bears: Late Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania

scientific article (publication date: 15 January 2008)

LA OCUPACIÓN SOLUTRENSE DEL ABRIGO DE LA BOJA (MULA, MURCIA, ESPAÑA)

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La faune de rongeurs du Pléistocene supérieur de la grotte de Caldeirao (Tomar, Portugal)

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La nouvelle « bataille aurignacienne »

La puesta en valor del arte rupestre del valle del Côa (Portugal)

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Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Late Quaternary (MIS 5a-5b) climate and environments of western Iberia inferred from the small-mammal assemblage of Gruta da Oliveira, Torres Novas, Portugal

scientific article published in 2022

Late neandertals in southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain

scientific article (publication date: 30 December 2008)

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

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Luminescence Dating of Fluvial Deposits in the Rock Shelter of Cueva Antón, Spain

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Methods for U-series dating of CaCO 3 crusts associated with Palaeolithic cave art and application to Iberian sites

Middle Palaeolithic flint procurement in Central Mediterranean Iberia: Implications for human mobility

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Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta Da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal

scientific article

Modeling the role of voyaging in the coastal spread of the Early Neolithic in the West Mediterranean

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Modernos y Neandertales en la transición del Paleolítico Medio al Superior en Europa

Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia:Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

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Neandertals and moderns mixed, and it matters

scientific article (publication date: 24 October 2006)

Neanderthal use of plants and past vegetation reconstruction at the Middle Paleolithic site of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)

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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

scientific article

New U-series results for the speleogenesis and the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Almonda karstic system (Torres Novas, Portugal)

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New macaque remains from the Middle Pleistocene of Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda karst system, Portugal)

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Not Only Flint: Levallois on Quartzite and Limestone at Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencia, Spain): Implications for Neandertal Behavior

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Nouvelles datations absolues pour la préhistoire ancienne du Portugal

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O Menino do Lapedo

scholarly article by Erik Trinkaus published in September 2001

On Logical and Empirical Aspects of the Mesolithic‐Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula

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On the Entity and Antiquity of the Aurignacian at Willendorf (Austria): Implications for Modern Human Emergence in Europe ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites: Results from Southern Europe

scientific article

Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in westernmost Eurasia

scientific article

Personal Ornaments and Symbolism Among the Neanderthals

Peştera cu Oase 2 and the cranial morphology of early modern Europeans

scientific article

Plaquette gravée du Solutréen supérieur de la Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal)

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Population Genomics of Stone Age Eurasia

Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Problematizing Bayesian approaches to prehistoric chronologies

scholarly article by Paul Pettitt published in August 2015

Public archaeology and political dynamics in Portugal: A reply to Bednarik

scholarly article by João Zilhão published in January 2004

Radiocarbon Dating the Beginning of the Neolithic in Iberia: New Results, New Problems

Radiocarbon evidence for maritime pioneer colonization at the origins of farming in west Mediterranean Europe ⬇️

scientific article published on November 13, 2001

Refining the environmental and climatic background of the Middle Pleistocene human cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)

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Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art”

scientific article published in Science

Response to White et al.'s reply: 'Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art' [J. Hum. Evol. (2020) 102640]

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: a reply to Higham et al.'s comments on Banks et al. (2013).

scientific article

Stratigraphic and spatial distribution of ochre and ochre processing tools at Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

scholarly article by Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al published September 2014 in Quaternary International

Stratigraphic context and direct dating of the Neandertal mandible from Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Barcelona).

scientific article published on 8 June 2010

Stratigraphy and formation processes of the Upper Pleistocene deposit at Gruta da Oliveira, Almonda karstic system, Torres Novas, Portugal

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Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

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Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago.

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Szeletian, Not Aurignacian: A Review of the Chronology and Cultural Associations of the Vindija G1 Neandertals

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THE PLEISTOCENE–HOLOCENE TRANSITION IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN HUMAN ADAPTATIONS

scholarly article

Taphonomic inferences about Middle Pleistocene hominins: The human cranium of Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

article published in 2018

Tar adhesives, Neandertals, and the tyranny of the discontinuous mind

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Technical and cultural variability of the Portuguese Gravettian: recent discoveries and research perspectives ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 December 2007

Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Barcelona): the landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the “Ebro frontier” and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia

scholarly article

The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Chronology and Taphonomy of the Earliest Aurignacian and Its Implications for the Understanding of Neandertal Extinction

article published in 1999

The Emergence of Ornaments and Art: An Archaeological Perspective on the Origins of “Behavioral Modernity”

scholarly article by João Zilhão published in January 2007

The Grotte des Fées (Châtelperron, Allier), an illusory “Châtelperronian-Aurignacian” interstratification. Excavation history, stratigraphy and dating ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 December 2007

The Neandertals of northeastern Iberia: new remains from the Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Barcelona).

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

The Neanderthals: evolution, palaeoecology, and extinction

The Rock Art of the Côa Valley (Portugal) and its Archaeological Context: First Results of Current Research

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The Spread of Agro-Pastoral Economies across Mediterranean Europe: A View from the Far West

The Upper Palaeolithic of Europe

The bony labyrinth in the Aroeira 3 Middle Pleistocene cranium

The chronology of hand stencils in European Palaeolithic rock art: implications of new U-series results from El Castillo Cave (Cantabria, Spain).

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

The cochlea of the Aroeira 3 Middle Pleistocene cranium-a comparative study

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals

scholarly article

The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia

scientific article

The reality of Neandertal symbolic behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

scientific article published in 2011

The rock art of the Côa valley, Portugal: Significance, conservation and management

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The technology of the earliest European cave paintings: El Castillo Cave, Spain

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Troubling the Neandertals: A Reply to Langbroek's ‘The Trouble with Neandertals’

scholarly article by João Zilhão published in December 2001

U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain

scientific article

U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art.

scientific article

U-series dating of Palaeolithic rock art at Fuente del Trucho (Aragón, Spain)

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Un Jardin du Paradis aurignacien en Allemagne du Sud ? Une inteprétation alternative de la séquence de Geissenklösterle et une critique du modèle de la Kulturpumpe ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2003

Upper Pleistocene Prehistory in Portuguese Estremadura: Results of Preliminary Research

Uranium series dating reveals a long sequence of rock art at Altamira Cave (Santillana del Mar, Cantabria)

scholarly article by Marcos García Díez et al published November 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Who brought in the rabbits? Taphonomical analysis of Mousterian and Solutrean leporid accumulations from Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal)

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List of works by João Zilhão

A 400,000-year-old Acheulean assemblage associated with the Aroeira-3 human cranium (Gruta da Aroeira, Almonda karst system, Portugal)

A Common Genetic Origin for Early Farmers from Mediterranean Cardial and Central European LBK Cultures ⬇️

A tale of two gorges: Late Quaternary site formation and surface dynamics in the Mula basin (Murcia, Spain)

Abrigo de la Quebrada Level IV (Valencia, Spain): Interpreting a Middle Palaeolithic Palimpsest from a Zooarchaeological and Lithic Perspective ⬇️

Aliens from Outer Time? Why the “Human Revolution” Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here?

Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals

Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo

Aproximación al aprovisionamiento de materias primas líticas en el yacimiento del Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia)

Assessing site formation and assemblage integrity through stone tool refitting at Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal): A Middle Paleolithic case study

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) from the Peştera cu Oase (Banat, Romania): Paleobiology and taphonomy

Chapter 6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking

Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

Climate, environment and human behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencia, Spain): The evidence from charred plant and micromammal remains

Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

Cova del Rinoceront (Castelldefels, Barcelona): a terrestrial record for the Last Interglacial period (MIS 5) in the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula

Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain

Cueva Antón: A multi-proxy MIS 3 to MIS 5a paleoenvironmental record for SE Iberia

Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable

Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go

Dental maturational sequence and dental tissue proportions in the early Upper Paleolithic child from Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal

Diachronic variation in the Middle Paleolithic settlement of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Spain)

Did Neandertals think like us?

Early Food Production in Southwestern Europe

Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)

Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

Formation processes at a high resolution Middle Paleolithic site: Cueva Antón (Murcia, Spain)

Further lessons in integrity: A final reply to Robert Bednarik

Genes, Fossils, and Culture. An Overview of the Evidence for Neandertal–Modern Human Interaction and Admixture

Heated flint TL-dating for Gruta da Oliveira (Portugal): dosimetric challenges and comparison of chronometric data

Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

Hunting strategy and seasonality in the last interglacial occupation of Cueva Antón (Murcia, Spain)

Identification of local and allochthonous flint artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithical site ‘Abrigo de la Quebrada’ (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) by macroscopic and physicochemical methods

Identification of the last glacial maximum in the Upper Paleolithic of Portugal using magnetic susceptibility measurements of Caldeirão Cave sediments

In glacial environments beyond glacial terrains: Human eco-dynamics in late Pleistocene Mediterranean Iberia

Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

Isotopic evidence for omnivory among European cave bears: Late Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania

LA OCUPACIÓN SOLUTRENSE DEL ABRIGO DE LA BOJA (MULA, MURCIA, ESPAÑA)

La faune de rongeurs du Pléistocene supérieur de la grotte de Caldeirao (Tomar, Portugal)

La nouvelle « bataille aurignacienne »

La puesta en valor del arte rupestre del valle del Côa (Portugal)

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

Late Quaternary (MIS 5a-5b) climate and environments of western Iberia inferred from the small-mammal assemblage of Gruta da Oliveira, Torres Novas, Portugal

Late neandertals in southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain

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

Luminescence Dating of Fluvial Deposits in the Rock Shelter of Cueva Antón, Spain

Methods for U-series dating of CaCO 3 crusts associated with Palaeolithic cave art and application to Iberian sites

Middle Palaeolithic flint procurement in Central Mediterranean Iberia: Implications for human mobility

Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta Da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal

Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal

Modeling the role of voyaging in the coastal spread of the Early Neolithic in the West Mediterranean

Modernos y Neandertales en la transición del Paleolítico Medio al Superior en Europa

Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations

Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia:Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

Neandertals and moderns mixed, and it matters

Neanderthal use of plants and past vegetation reconstruction at the Middle Paleolithic site of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)

New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

New U-series results for the speleogenesis and the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Almonda karstic system (Torres Novas, Portugal)

New macaque remains from the Middle Pleistocene of Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda karst system, Portugal)

Not Only Flint: Levallois on Quartzite and Limestone at Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencia, Spain): Implications for Neandertal Behavior

Nouvelles datations absolues pour la préhistoire ancienne du Portugal

O Menino do Lapedo

On Logical and Empirical Aspects of the Mesolithic‐Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula

On the Entity and Antiquity of the Aurignacian at Willendorf (Austria): Implications for Modern Human Emergence in Europe ⬇️

Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites: Results from Southern Europe

Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites: Results from Southern Europe

Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in westernmost Eurasia

Personal Ornaments and Symbolism Among the Neanderthals

Peştera cu Oase 2 and the cranial morphology of early modern Europeans

Plaquette gravée du Solutréen supérieur de la Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal)

Population Genomics of Stone Age Eurasia

Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia.

Problematizing Bayesian approaches to prehistoric chronologies

Public archaeology and political dynamics in Portugal: A reply to Bednarik

Radiocarbon Dating the Beginning of the Neolithic in Iberia: New Results, New Problems

Radiocarbon evidence for maritime pioneer colonization at the origins of farming in west Mediterranean Europe ⬇️

Refining the environmental and climatic background of the Middle Pleistocene human cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)

Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art”