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Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
17048
World Ranking
1687
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo is affiliated with the University of Alcalá in Spain. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a strong focus on anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and social psychology.

The scientist's main subjects of study include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo include:

  • Artificial intelligence provides greater accuracy in the classification of modern and ancient bone surface modifications, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Early Pleistocene faunivorous hominins were not kleptoparasitic, and this impacted the evolution of human anatomy and socio-ecology, 2021, Scientific Reports

Other significant publications co-authored by related researchers in relevant fields include:

  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome, 2021, Cell
  • Deep learning classification of tooth scores made by different carnivores: achieving high accuracy when comparing African carnivore taxa and testing the hominin shift in the balance of power, 2021, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Deep learning improves taphonomic resolution: high accuracy in differentiating tooth marks made by lions and jaguars, 2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Frequent co-authors with whom Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo has collaborated include Enrique Baquedano, Audax Mabulla, Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, David Uribelarrea, and Fernando Diéz Martín.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with a concentration of work in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Scientific Reports, Quaternary Science Reviews, Harvard Dataverse, and Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

Best Publications

  • Long-term sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to warming

    W Knorr;IC Prentice;Joanna Isobel House;EA Holland

  • 2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.

    Sileshi Semaw;Michael J Rogers;Jay Quade;Paul R Renne;Paul R Renne

  • A new protocol to differentiate trampling marks from butchery cut marks

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;S. de Juana;A.B. Galán;M. Rodríguez

  • The use of tooth pits to identify carnivore taxa in tooth-marked archaeofaunas and their relevance to reconstruct hominid carcass processing behaviours

    Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo;Ana Piqueras

  • Cutmarked bones from Pliocene archaeological sites at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: implications for the function of the world's oldest stone tools.

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Sileshi Semaw;Michael J. Rogers

  • Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach using cut-mark data

    Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo

  • Hunting and scavenging by early humans: The state of the debate

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome.

    Mathieu Groussin;Mathilde Poyet;Ainara Sistiaga;Ainara Sistiaga;Sean M. Kearney

  • New estimates of tooth mark and percussion mark frequencies at the FLK Zinj site: the carnivore-hominid-carnivore hypothesis falsified

    M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;R. Barba

  • Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Rebeca Barba Egido;Charles P. Egeland

  • Flesh availability and bone modifications in carcasses consumed by lions: palaeoecological relevance in hominid foraging patterns

    Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo

  • 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

  • Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers.

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Henry T. Bunn

  • Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time.

    Beatrice Demarchi;Shaun Hall;Teresa Roncal-Herrero;Colin Freeman

  • Early hominid hunting and scavenging: A zooarcheological review

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • 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

  • The Oldowan industry of Peninj and its bearing on the reconstruction of the technological skills of Lower Pleistocene hominids.

    Ignacio de la Torre;Rafael Mora;Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo;Luis de Luque

  • 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

  • Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia

    Sileshi Semaw;Scott W. Simpson;Scott W. Simpson;Jay Quade;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • 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

  • New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains.

    Luke A. Gliganic;Zenobia Jacobs;Richard G. Roberts;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

  • Importance of limb bone shaft fragments in zooarchaeology: a response to “On in situ attrition and vertebrate body part profiles” (2002), by M.C. Stiner

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Curtis W. Marean;Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo

Frequent Co-Authors

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

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