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Juan Manuel López-García is affiliated with the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Spain. Their research spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Paleontology and Anthropology.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to Pleistocene-Era hominins, archaeological and paleontological studies, and environmental reconstructions. Specific research interests include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

López-García has authored multiple papers that contribute to the understanding of past ecological and climatic conditions through various methods including ancient DNA analysis and rodent assemblage studies. Notable recent publications include:

  • Diverse responses of common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations to Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes - Evidence from ancient DNA, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Palaeoecology and biochronology based on the rodents analysis from the Late Pleistocene/Holocene of Toll Cave (Moià, Barcelona), 2020, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • The De Nadale Cave, a single layered Quina Mousterian site in the North of Italy, 2021, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • Integrated multidisciplinary ecological analysis from the Uluzzian settlement at the Uluzzo C Rock Shelter, south-eastern Italy, 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Exploring the landscape and climatic conditions of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the Middle East: the rodent assemblage from the late Pleistocene of Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley, Iran), 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

López-García's scholarship has been published in a variety of journals, with repeated contributions in the following venues:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology

Their frequent collaborators include researchers such as Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Ana Fagoaga, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Christian Sánchez-Bandera, and Claudio Berto, reflecting ongoing interdisciplinary partnerships in the fields of paleoecology, archaeology, and paleoclimatology.

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

  • 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

  • Reconstruction of the Neanderthal and Modern Human landscape and climate from the Fumane cave sequence (Verona, Italy) using small-mammal assemblages

    Juan Manuel López-García;Chiara dalla Valle;Mauro Cremaschi;Marco Peresani

  • 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

  • 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

  • Environmental and climatic context of Neanderthal occupation in southwestern Europe during MIS3 inferred from the small-vertebrate assemblages

    Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Maria Bennàsar;Mónica Fernández-García

  • Climate and environment of the earliest West European hominins inferred from amphibian and squamate reptile assemblages: Sima del Elefante Lower Red Unit, Atapuerca, Spain

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

  • The small mammals of Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Spain) and the first entrance of Homo in Western Europe

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

  • A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the chronology and environment of southwestern European Neanderthals: the contribution of Teixoneres cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain)

    Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Francesc Burjachs;Francesc Burjachs;Anna Ballesteros

  • Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the latest Pleistocene–Holocene sequence from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, southern Italy) using the small-mammal assemblages

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  • First fossil evidence of an "interglacial refugium" in the Pyrenean region.

    Juan Manuel López-García;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Ethel Allué;Sandra Bañuls

  • Climatic conditions for the last Neanderthals: Herpetofaunal record of Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Chris P. Gleed-Owen;Juan Manuel López-García;José Sebastian Carrión

  • Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Latest Pleistocene of L’Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, Girona, northeastern Iberia) inferred from the small-mammal (insectivore and rodent) assemblages

    Juan Manuel López-García;Narcís Soler;Julià Maroto;Joaquim Soler

  • Late Quaternary small mammal turnover in the Cantabrian Region: The extinction of Pliomys lenki (Rodentia, Mammalia)

    G. Cuenca-Bescós;G. Cuenca-Bescós;L.G. Straus;L.G. Straus;J.C. García-Pimienta;M.R. González Morales

  • Chronological, environmental, and climatic precisions on the Neanderthal site of the Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Barcelona, Spain).

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

  • Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic proxies of the Gorham’s cave small mammal sequence, Gibraltar, southern Iberia

    Juan Manuel López-García;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Clive Finlayson;Clive Finlayson;Kimberly Brown

  • Palaeoecological implications of rodents as proxies for the Late Pleistocene-Holocene environmental and climatic changes in northeastern Iberia

    Mónica Fernández-García;Juan Manuel López-García;Carlos Lorenzo

  • Heinrich event 4 characterized by terrestrial proxies in southwestern Europe

    J. M. López-García;H.-A. Blain;M. Bennàsar;M. Sanz

  • Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Mousterian-Aurignacian transition in northern Iberia: the small-vertebrate assemblage from Cueva del Conde (Santo Adriano, Asturias).

    Juan Manuel López-García;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Diego Álvarez-Lao

  • Chronological and environmental context of the first hominin dispersal into Western Europe: The case of Barranco León (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)

    Jordi Agustí;Jordi Agustí;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Iván Lozano-Fernández;Pedro Piñero

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Hugues-Alexandre Blain Rovira i Virgili University
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza
Ethel Allué
Ethel Allué Rovira i Virgili University
Francesc Burjachs
Francesc Burjachs Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Eudald Carbonell
Eudald Carbonell Rovira i Virgili University
Florent Rivals
Florent Rivals Rovira i Virgili University
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Complutense University of Madrid
Andreu Ollé
Andreu Ollé Rovira i Virgili University
Palmira Saladié
Palmira Saladié Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution
José María Bermúdez de Castro
José María Bermúdez de Castro University College London

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