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Lawrence Guy Straus publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lawrence Guy Straus sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 439 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Lawrence Guy Straus D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lawrence Guy Straus sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lawrence Guy Straus is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with primary focus areas in Paleontology, Anthropology, Archeology, Molecular Biology, and Ecology.

The main topics in Straus's work include:

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

Straus has contributed to a number of recent papers, among which are:

  • "Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers" (2023), published in Nature
  • "The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic" (2023), published in Science
  • "Paleoclima y Paisaje del final del Cuaternario en Cantabria: los pequeños mamíferos de la cueva del Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria)" (2021), published in Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • "Adaptability, resilience and environmental buffering in European Refugia during the Late Pleistocene: Insights from La Riera Cave (Asturias, Cantabria, Spain)" (2020), published in Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Straus include:

  • Manuel R. González Morales
  • Ana B. Marín-Arroyo
  • Borja González-Rabanal
  • Pere Gelabert
  • Victoria Oberreiter

Straus regularly publishes in several scientific venues. Notable journals with multiple contributions include:

  • Journal of Anthropological Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Straus has published a book titled Arte, pensamiento simbólico y modos de vida en la Prehistoria released in 2024 by Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

  • Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Replies]

    Randall White;Nico Arts;Paul G. Bahn;Lewis R. Binford

  • Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

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  • LA Riera Cave: Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in Northern Spain

    Lawrence Guy Straus;Geoffrey A. Clark

  • The reconstruction of past environments through small mammals : from the Mousterian to the Bronze Age in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)

    Gloria Cuenca-Bescos;Gloria Cuenca-Bescos;Lawrence G. Straus;Lawrence G. Straus;Manuel R. Gonzawlez Morales;Juan C. Garcia Pimienta

  • Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply]

    J. M. Lindly;G. A. Clark;O. Bar-Yosef;D. Lieberman

  • Mitochondrial DNA variation in Pleistocene and modern Atlantic salmon from the Iberian glacial refugium

    S. Consuegra;C. Garcia De Leaniz;A. Serdio;M. Gonzalez Morales

  • The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome

    James A. Fellows Yates;James A. Fellows Yates;Irina Marie Velsko;Franziska Aron;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth

  • Humans at the end of the Ice Age : the archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

    Lawrence Guy Straus

  • Taphonomy at a distance zhoukoudian the cave home of beijing man

    Lewis R. Binford;Chuan Kun Ho;Jean S. Aigner;Marie-Henriette Alimen

  • Africa and Iberia in the Pleistocene

    Lawrence Guy Straus

  • Archaeological implications of human-derived manganese coatings: a study of blackened bones in El Miron Cave, Cantabrian Spain

    A.B. Marín Arroyo;M.D. Landete Ruiz;G. Vidal Bernabeu;R. Seva Román

  • The Upper Palaeolithic settlement of Iberia: first-generation maps

    Lawrence G. U. Y. Straus;Nuno Bicho;A. N. N. C. Winegardner

  • Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘connection’

    Lawrence Guy Straus;David J. Meltzer;Ted Goebel

  • Solutrean settlement of North America ? A review of reality

    Lawrence Guy Straus

  • The oldest agriculture in northern Atlantic Spain: new evidence from El Miron Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria)

    Leonor Peña-Chocarro;Lydia Zapata;Maria Jose Iriarte;Manuel González Morales

  • Microremains from El Mirón Cave human dental calculus suggest a mixed plant-animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in Northern Iberia

    Robert C. Power;Domingo Carlos Salazar García;Lawrence Guy Straus;Lawrence Guy Straus;Manuel R. González Morales

  • Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain.

    Ana B. Marín-Arroyo;Ana B. Marín-Arroyo;Joseba Rios-Garaizar;Lawrence G. Straus;Jennifer R. Jones

  • Late-glacial recolonization and phylogeography of European red deer (Cervus elaphus L.)

    Meirav Meiri;Adrian M. Lister;Thomas F. G. Higham;John R. Stewart

  • Carnivores and Cave Sites in Cantabrian Spain

    Lawrence Guy Straus

  • Last Glacial Human Settlement in Eastern Cantabria (Northern Spain)

    Lawrence Guy Straus;Manuel R. González Morales;Miguel Ángel Fano Martı́nez;Marı́a Paz Garcı́a-Gelabert

  • On the Emergence of Modern Humans

    Philip G. Chase;Harold L. Dibble;John Lindly;Geoffrey Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Nuno Bicho
Nuno Bicho University of Algarve
José Miguel Carretero
José Miguel Carretero University of Burgos
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Harold L. Dibble
Harold L. Dibble University of Pennsylvania
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon
Floyd E. Dewhirst
Floyd E. Dewhirst Harvard University

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