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Alfredo Pérez-González

Alfredo Pérez-González

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World Ranking
2074
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23

Overview

Alfredo Pérez-González is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on the study of Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, encompassing a broad range of interdisciplinary studies related to ancient environments, geology, and paleoclimatology.

The main fields of study in which they have contributed include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, notably Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics.

The core topics of their research cover:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Scientific contributions by Alfredo Pérez-González have appeared frequently in several publication venues, such as:

  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary International
  • Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfredo Pérez-González include:

  • "Refining the chronology of Acheulean deposits at Porto Maior in the River Miño basin (Galicia, Spain) using a comparative luminescence and ESR dating approach" (2020, Quaternary International)
  • "A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania" (2023, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "A neanderthal hunting camp in the central system of the Iberian Peninsula: A zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Spain)" (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "The Acheulean Technocomplex of the Iberian Atlantic Margin as an Example of Technology Continuity Through the Middle Pleistocene" (2020, Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology)
  • "Identifying the bone-breaker at the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid) using machine learning algorithms" (2020, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences)

Throughout their career, Alfredo Pérez-González has collaborated regularly with several other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Enrique Baquedano, Manuel Santonja, Juan Luís Arsuaga, Abel Moclán, and César Laplana.

Best Publications

  • The first hominin of Europe

    Eudald Carbonell;Jose M. Bermudez de Castro;Josep M. Pares;Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez

  • Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain.

    G.W. Berger;A. Pérez-González;E. Carbonell;J.L. Arsuaga

  • Paleomagnetic age for hominid fossils at Atapuerca archaeological site, Spain

    Josep M. Parés;Alfredo Pérez-González

  • Palaeoflood record of the Tagus River (Central Spain) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

    Gerardo Benito;Alfonso Sopeña;Yolanda Sánchez-Moya;Marı́a J. Machado

  • Magnetochronology and stratigraphy at Gran Dolina section, Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain).

    J.M Parés;A Pérez-González

  • The Origin of The Acheulean: The 1.7 Million-Year-Old Site of FLK West, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

    F. Diez-Martín;P. Sánchez Yustos;D. Uribelarrea;E. Baquedano

  • An Early Pleistocene hominin mandible from Atapuerca-TD6, Spain

    E. Carbonell;J. M. Bermúdez de Castro;J. L. Arsuaga;E. Allue

  • On meat eating and human evolution: A taphonomic analysis of BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), and its bearing on hominin megafaunal consumption

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;H.T. Bunn;A.Z.P. Mabulla;E. Baquedano

  • Assessing regional geodiversity: the Iberian Peninsula.

    A. Benito-Calvo;A. Pérez-González;O. Magri;O. Magri;P. Meza

  • First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Enrique Baquedano;Audax Mabulla

  • Matuyama-age lithic tools from the Sima del Elefante site, Atapuerca (northern Spain)

    Josep M. Parés;Alfredo Pérez-González;Antonio Rosas;A. Benito

  • 1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

    Mohamed Sahnouni;Josep María Parés;Mathieu Duval;Isabel Cáceres

  • Cut marks on the Middle Pleistocene elephant carcass of Áridos 2 (Madrid, Spain)

    J. Yravedra;M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;M. Santonja;A. Pérez-González

  • Evaluating the suitability of extended-range luminescence dating techniques over early and Middle Pleistocene timescales: Published datasets and case studies from Atapuerca, Spain

    Lee J. Arnold;Martina Demuro;Josep María Parés;Alfredo Pérez-González

  • Up-to-date Spanish continental Neogene synthesis and paleoclimatic interpretation

    Carlos de Santisteban Bove;J.P. Calvo;R. Daams;J. Morales

  • New data from Ambrona: closing the hunting versus scavenging debate.

    Paola Villa;Enrique Soto;Manuel Santonja;Alfredo Pérez-González

  • Channel changes in the Jarama and Tagus rivers (central Spain) over the past 500 years

    David Uribelarrea;Alfredo Pérez-González;Gerardo Benito

  • Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): new paleomagnetic results

    J.M. Parés;L. Arnold;M. Duval;M. Demuro

  • Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean industrial complex in the Iberian Peninsula

    Manuel Santonja;Alfredo Pérez-González

  • Géologie de la Sierra de Atapuerca et stratigraphie des remplissages karstiques de Galería et Dolina (Burgos, Espagne)

    Alfredo Pérez-González;Joseph María Parés;Eudald Carbonell;Trinidad Aleixandre

  • River response to Quaternary subsidence due to evaporite solution (Gállego River, Ebro Basin, Spain)

    Gerardo Benito;Alfredo Pérez-González;Francisco Gutiérrez;María José Machado

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrique Baquedano
Enrique Baquedano University of Alcalá
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Complutense University of Madrid
Alfonso Benito-Calvo
Alfonso Benito-Calvo National Research Center on Human Evolution
Eudald Carbonell
Eudald Carbonell Rovira i Virgili University
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo University of Alcalá
José Yravedra
José Yravedra Complutense University of Madrid
Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Hugues-Alexandre Blain Rovira i Virgili University
Mathieu Duval
Mathieu Duval National Research Center on Human Evolution
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
José María Bermúdez de Castro
José María Bermúdez de Castro University College London

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