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Hugues-Alexandre Blain

Hugues-Alexandre Blain

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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
6667
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4761
National Ranking
75

Overview

Hugues-Alexandre Blain is affiliated with Rovira i Virgili University in Spain. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecology, Archeology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research focuses primarily on Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology, evolution and paleontology studies, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research. Additional areas of work include archaeology and ancient environmental studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, and amphibian and reptile biology.

They have contributed to multiple scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Oldowan stone knapping and percussive activities on a raw material reservoir deposit 1.4 million years ago at Barranco León (Orce, Spain) (2021, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences)
  • 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)
  • 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) (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hugues-Alexandre Blain include:

  • Christian Sánchez-Bandera
  • Juan Manuel López-García
  • Oriol Oms
  • Ana Fagoaga
  • Jordi Agustı́

They commonly publish in venues such as:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Historical Biology
  • Journal of Human Evolution

Best Publications

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

    J. Rodríguez;F. Burjachs;G. Cuenca-Bescós;N. García

  • Biochronology of Spanish Quaternary small vertebrate faunas

    Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Juan Rofes;Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain

  • Long-term climate record inferred from early-middle Pleistocene amphibian and squamate reptile assemblages at the Gran Dolina Cave, Atapuerca, Spain

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Salvador Bailon;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Juan Luis Arsuaga

  • The Early–Middle Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental change based on the squamate reptile and amphibian proxies at the Gran Dolina site, Atapuerca, Spain

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Salvador Bailon;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós

  • Climate forcing of first hominid dispersal in Western Europe

    Jordi Agustí;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Salvador Bailon

  • Contribution de la paléoherpétofaune (Amphibia & Squamata) à la connaissance de l' evolution du climat et du paysage du Pliocène supérieur au Pléistocène moyen d' Espagne*

    Hugues Alexandre Blain

  • A new Lower Pleistocene archeological site in Europe (Vallparadís, Barcelona, Spain)

    Kenneth Martínez;Joan Garcia;Eudald Carbonell;Jordi Agustí

  • The early Pleistocene small vertebrate succession from the Orce region (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain) and its bearing on the first human occupation of Europe

    Jordi Agustí;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Marc Furió;Roger De Marfá

  • Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Latest Pleistocene of El Portalón Site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northwestern Spain.

    Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;María Blanca Ruiz-Zapata

  • Palaeoecology of Neanderthals during Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles in northeastern Iberia (Abric Romaní): From regional to global scale

    Francesc Burjachs;Juan Manuel López-García;Ethel Allué;Hugues-Alexandre Blain

  • The Early–Middle Pleistocene environmental and climatic change and the human expansion in Western Europe: A case study with small vertebrates (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain)

    G. Cuenca-Bescós;M. Melero-Rubio;J. Rofes;I. Martínez

  • 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)

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Iván Lozano-Fernández;Jordi Agustí;Salvador Bailon

  • Contribution of the palaeoherpetofauna (Amphibia & Squamata) to

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain

  • 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

    Joan Daura;Montserrat Sanz;N. García;E. Allué

  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic proxies to the Early Pleistocene hominids of Barranco León D and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, Spain) by means of their amphibian and reptile assemblages

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Salvador Bailon;Jordi Agustí;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro

  • Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS 5) Neanderthals of Central Iberia: paleoenvironmental and taphonomic evidence from the Cueva del Camino (Spain) site

    Juan Luis Arsuaga;Enrique Baquedano;Alfredo Pérez-González;Nohemi Sala

  • Small vertebrates (Amphibia, Squamata, Mammalia) from the late Pleistocene-Holocene of the Valdavara-1 cave (Galicia, northwestern Spain)

    Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Carmelo Alonso

  • Earliest evidence for human consumption of tortoises in the European Early Pleistocene from Sima del Elefante, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

    Ruth Blasco;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Jordi Rosell;J. Carlos Díez

  • La Cantalera: an exceptional window onto the vertebrate biodiversity of the Hauterivian-Barremian transition in the Iberian Peninsula

    J.I. Canudo;M. Aurell;J.M. Gasca;A. Badiola

  • A new key locality for the Pliocene vertebrate record of Europe: the Camp dels Ninots maar (NE Spain)

    B. Gómez de Soler;G. Campeny Vall-llosera;J. Van der Made;Oriol Oms

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Manuel López-García
Juan Manuel López-García Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution
Jordi Agustí
Jordi Agustí Rovira i Virgili University
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Complutense University of Madrid
Oriol Oms
Oriol Oms Autonomous University of Barcelona
Francesc Burjachs
Francesc Burjachs Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Ethel Allué
Ethel Allué Rovira i Virgili University
Eudald Carbonell
Eudald Carbonell Rovira i Virgili University

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