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3401
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Overview

João Zilhão is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Archeology, Anthropology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics.

Their research focuses on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeological and Geological Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Forensic and Genetic Research, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

João Zilhão has contributed to various scientific publications, frequently publishing in venues like Quaternary Science Reviews, PLoS ONE, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent publications include:

  • Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers, 2020, Science
  • Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia, 2024, Nature
  • Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Population genomics of postglacial western eurasia, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include Diego E. Angelucci, Alistair Pike, Joan Daura, Dirk L. Hoffmann, and Mariana Nabais.

Best Publications

  • Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

    Joao C Zilhao;Diego E. Angelucci;Ernestina Badal-Garcia;Francesco d'Errico

  • The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Iñigo Olalde;Selina Brace;Morten E. Allentoft;Ian Armit

  • Neanderthal acculturation in western Europe? A critical review of the evidence and its interpretation

    Francesco d'Errico;Joao Zilhão;Michèle Julien;Dominique Baffier

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

    D. L. Hoffmann;C. D. Standish;M. García-Diez;P. B. Pettitt

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

    A. W. G. Pike;D. L. Hoffmann;M. Garcia-Diez;P. B. Pettitt

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

    Joao C Zilhao

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

    C Duarte;J Mauricio;P B Pettitt;P Souto

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

    João Zilhão;Francesco d'Errico

  • The emergence of ornaments and art: an archaeological perspective on the origins of "behavioral modernity"

    Joao C Zilhao

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

    Joao Zilhao

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

    Iñigo Olalde;Hannes Schroeder;Hannes Schroeder;Marcela Sandoval-Velasco;Lasse Vinner

  • Neandertals and moderns mixed, and it matters

    Joao C Zilhao

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

    Francois Caron;Francesco d'Errico;Pierre Del Moral;Frederic Santos

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

    William E. Banks;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;João Zilhão

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Child. The Gravettian Human Skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho and its Archaeological Context

    J Zilhão;E Trinkaus

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

    Dirk L. Hoffmann;Diego E. Angelucci;Valentín Villaverde;Josefina Zapata

  • Chronostratigraphy of the middle-to-upper paleolithic transition in the Iberian peninsula

    Joao Zilhao

  • From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula

    João Zilhão;T. Douglas Price

  • Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

    J. Zilhão;J. Zilhão;J. Zilhão;D. E. Angelucci;M. Araújo Igreja;L. J. Arnold

  • The Chronology of the Aurignacian and of the Transitional Technocomplexes. Dating, Stratigraphies, Cultural Implications

    Joao C Zilhao;F D'Errico

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

    Michael P. Richards;Martina Pacher;Mathias Stiller;Jerome Quiles

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

    João Zilhão;João Zilhão;João Zilhão;Daniela Anesin;Thierry Aubry;Ernestina Badal

  • Late Neandertals in Southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain

    Michael J. Walker;Josep Gibert;Mariano V. Lopez;A. Vincent Lombardi

  • The age of the Côa valley (Portugal) rock-art: validation of archaeological dating to the Palaeolithic and refutation of ‘scientific’ dating to historic or proto-historic times

    Joao C Zilhao

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

    Priscilla Bayle;Roberto Macchiarelli;Roberto Macchiarelli;Erik Trinkaus;Cidalia Duarte

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

    William E. Banks;William E. Banks;Joao C Zilhao;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;Masa Kageyama

  • The Radiocarbon Chronology

    P.B. Pettitt;H. van der Plicht;C. Bronk Ramsey;A.M. Monge Soares

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk L. Hoffmann
Dirk L. Hoffmann Max Planck Society
Francesco d'Errico
Francesco d'Errico University of Bergen
Angel Rubio
Angel Rubio Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Complutense University of Madrid
J. A. Milton
J. A. Milton University of Southampton
Rosa M. Albert
Rosa M. Albert Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Peter Steier
Peter Steier University of Vienna

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