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José Yravedra is affiliated with Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research spans several intersecting fields, including Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. They have contributed significantly to subfields such as Archeology, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Geometry and Topology.

Their work centers on topics related to Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology, archaeological and ancient environmental studies, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, evolution and paleontology studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, archaeological and geological investigations, and morphological variations and asymmetry.

Frequent publication venues where José Yravedra has contributed include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Animals
  • Scientific Reports

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Obtaining new resolutions in carnivore tooth pit morphological analyses: A methodological update for digital taphonomy" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Developments in data science solutions for carnivore tooth pit classification" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "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)
  • "Laser-Induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for the analyses of faunal bones: Assembling of individuals and elemental quantification" (2020, Optik)

José Yravedra collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Lloyd A. Courtenay
  • Darío Herranz-Rodrigo
  • Verónica Estaca-Gómez
  • Alexia Serrano-Ramos
  • Juan Manuel Jiménez Arenas

Best Publications

  • 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

  • A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores

    Miriam Andrés;Agness O. Gidna;José Yravedra;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior: a comparison of bone modification patterns on long bones by captive and wild lions

    Agness Gidna;José Yravedra;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • Micro-photogrammetric characterization of cut marks on bones

    Miguel Ángel Maté González;José Yravedra;Diego González-Aguilera;Juan Francisco Palomeque-González

  • Unraveling hominin behavior at another anthropogenic site from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): new archaeological and taphonomic research at BK, Upper Bed II.

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;A. Mabulla;H.T. Bunn;R. Barba

  • Why are cut mark frequencies in archaeofaunal assemblages so variable? A multivariate analysis

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;José Yravedra

  • Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Fernando Diez-Martín;Audax Mabulla

  • Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Jason L. Heaton;Jason L. Heaton;José Yravedra

  • Elephants and subsistence. Evidence of the human exploitation of extremely large mammal bones from the Middle Palaeolithic site of PRERESA (Madrid, Spain)

    J. Yravedra;S. Rubio-Jara;J. Panera;D. Uribelarrea

  • The shaft-based methodological approach to the quantification of long limb bones and its relevance to understanding hominid subsistence in the Pleistocene: application to four Palaeolithic sites

    J. Yravedra;M. Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • Paleoecología y comportamiento humano durante el Pleistoceno Superior en la comarca de Liébana: La secuencia de la Cueva de El Esquilleu (Occidente de Cantabria, España)

    J. Baena Preysler;Elena Carrión;Blanca Ruiz Zapata;Brooks Ellwood

  • Burnt bone assemblages from El Esquilleu cave (Cantabria, Northern Spain): deliberate use for fuel or systematic disposal of organic waste?

    J. Yravedra;P. Uzquiano

  • The Middle Paleolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain): a perspective on the Acheulean and Middle Paleolithic technocomplexes in Europe

    Manuel Santonja;Alfredo Pérez-González;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Joaquín Panera

  • A new approach to raw material use in the exploitation of animal carcasses at BK (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): a micro-photogrammetric and geometric morphometric analysis of fossil cut marks

    José Yravedra;Miguel Ángel Maté-González;Miguel Ángel Maté-González;Juan Francisco Palomeque-González;Julia Aramendi

  • Use and abuse of cut mark analyses: The Rorschach effect

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Palmira Saladié;Isabel Cáceres;Rosa Huguet;Rosa Huguet

  • Discerning carnivore agency through the three-dimensional study of tooth pits: Revisiting crocodile feeding behaviour at FLK- Zinj and FLK NN3 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

    Julia Aramendi;Miguel Angel Maté-González;Miguel Angel Maté-González;José Yravedra;María Cruz Ortega

  • A critical re-evaluation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore interactions through a multivariate approach: Application to the FLK Zinj archaeofaunal assemblage (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Henry T. Bunn;José Yravedra

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo University of Alcalá
Enrique Baquedano
Enrique Baquedano University of Alcalá
Diego González-Aguilera
Diego González-Aguilera University of Salamanca
Audax Mabulla
Audax Mabulla University of Dar es Salaam
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Travis Rayne Pickering
Travis Rayne Pickering University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henry T. Bunn
Henry T. Bunn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rosa Huguet
Rosa Huguet Spanish National Research Council
Gail M. Ashley
Gail M. Ashley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mikael Fortelius
Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki

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