2026 Lawrence Guy Straus: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3179	2923	1532	1386	439	8567

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

1093
Citations
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Replies]

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

314
Citations
Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

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275
Citations
LA Riera Cave: Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in Northern Spain

Lawrence Guy Straus;Geoffrey A. Clark

254
Citations
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

190
Citations
Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply]

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

168
Citations
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

167
Citations
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

164
Citations
Humans at the end of the Ice Age : the archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

Lawrence Guy Straus

159
Citations
Taphonomy at a distance zhoukoudian the cave home of beijing man

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

138
Citations
Africa and Iberia in the Pleistocene

Lawrence Guy Straus

134
Citations
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

133
Citations
The Upper Palaeolithic settlement of Iberia: first-generation maps

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

133
Citations
Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘connection’

Lawrence Guy Straus;David J. Meltzer;Ted Goebel

127
Citations
Solutrean settlement of North America ? A review of reality

Lawrence Guy Straus

125
Citations
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

120
Citations
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

118
Citations
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

116
Citations
Late-glacial recolonization and phylogeography of European red deer (Cervus elaphus L.)

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

107
Citations
Carnivores and Cave Sites in Cantabrian Spain

Lawrence Guy Straus

106
Citations
Last Glacial Human Settlement in Eastern Cantabria (Northern Spain)

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

99
Citations
On the Emergence of Modern Humans

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

36
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza

Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University

Nuno Bicho University of Algarve

José Miguel Carretero University of Burgos

Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School

Johannes Krause Max Planck Society

João Zilhão University of Lisbon

Ignacio Martínez University of Alcalá

Dorothée G. Drucker University of Tübingen

Floyd E. Dewhirst Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Lawrence Guy Straus Google Scholar page

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