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Mathieu Duval is affiliated with the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Spain. Their published work spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences, with a particular focus on fields such as Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Archeology, and Ecology. The primary research topics include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Archaeological and Geological Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

The scientist has authored multiple papers, contributing to a range of research areas. Selected recent publications include:

  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years, 2021, Nature
  • Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior, 2020, Science Advances
  • Testing the potential of K-feldspar pIR-IRSL and quartz ESR for dating coastal alluvial fan complexes in arid environments, 2020, Quaternary International
  • Refining the chronology of Acheulean deposits at Porto Maior in the River Miño basin (Galicia, Spain) using a comparative luminescence and ESR dating approach, 2020, Quaternary International
  • New chronological constraints for the lowermost stratigraphic unit of Atapuerca Gran Dolina (Burgos, N Spain), 2022, Quaternary Geochronology

Duval's research has been published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Quaternary Geochronology
  • Quaternary International
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature
  • Radiation Physics and Chemistry

They have collaborated closely with a number of co-authors, notably:

  • Lee J. Arnold
  • Martina Demuro
  • Josep M. Parés
  • Jian-xin Zhao
  • Alfredo Pérez-González

Best Publications

  • The earliest modern humans outside Africa

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Gerhard W. Weber;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam;Mathieu Duval

  • The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

    P.H.G.M. Dirks;P.H.G.M. Dirks;Eric M. Roberts;Eric M. Roberts;Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf;Jan Dirk Kramers

  • The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain).

    Isidro Toro-Moyano;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Jordi Agustí;Caroline Souday

  • Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Rainer Grün;Rainer Grün;Iyad A. S. Zalmout;Nick A. Drake;Nick A. Drake

  • 1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

    Mohamed Sahnouni;Josep María Parés;Mathieu Duval;Isabel Cáceres

  • On the limits of using combined U-series/ESR method to date fossil teeth from two Early Pleistocene archaeological sites of the Orce area (Guadix-Baza basin, Spain)

    Mathieu Duval;Christophe Falguères;Jean-Jacques Bahain;Rainer Grün

  • A new Lower Pleistocene archeological site in Europe (Vallparadís, Barcelona, Spain)

    Kenneth Martínez;Joan Garcia;Eudald Carbonell;Jordi Agustí

  • Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): new paleomagnetic results

    J.M. Parés;L. Arnold;M. Duval;M. Demuro

  • ESR chronology of alluvial deposits in the Arlanzón valley (Atapuerca, Spain): Contemporaneity with Atapuerca Gran Dolina site

    Davinia Moreno;Davinia Moreno;Christophe Falguères;Alfredo Pérez-González;Mathieu Duval

  • Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores

    Adam Brumm;Adam Brumm;Gerrit D. van den Bergh;Michael Storey;Iwan Kurniawan

  • ESR dosimetry of optically bleached quartz grains extracted from Plio- Quaternary sediment: Evaluating some key aspects of the ESR signals associated to the Ti-centers

    Mathieu Duval;Veronica Guilarte

  • First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

    E. Méndez-Quintas;M. Santonja;A. Pérez-González;M. Duval

  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Tom S. White;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eric Andrieux;Eric Andrieux

  • Electron spin resonance dating of optically bleached quartz grains from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Spain) using the multiple centres approach

    M. Duval;L.J. Arnold;V. Guilarte;M. Demuro

  • ESR dating of Lower Pleistocene fossil teeth: Limits of the single saturating exponential (SSE) function for the equivalent dose determination

    Mathieu Duval;Rainer Grun;Christophe Falgueres;Jean-Jacques Bahain

  • 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

  • Revealing the pace of river landscape evolution during the Quaternary: recent developments in numerical dating methods

    Gilles Rixhon;Rebecca M. Briant;Stéphane Cordier;Mathieu Duval

  • Age of the oldest hominin settlements in Spain: Contribution of the combined U-series/ESR dating method applied to fossil teeth

    Mathieu Duval;Christophe Falguères;Jean-Jacques Bahain

  • Dose response curve of the ESR signal of the Aluminum center in quartz grains extracted from sediment

    Mathieu Duval

  • The challenge of dating early pleistocene fossil teeth by the combined uranium series–electron spin resonance method: the Venta Micena palaeontological site (Orce, Spain)

    Mathieu Duval;Christophe Falgueres;Jean-Jacques Bahain;Rainer Grun

  • On the interest of using the multiple center approach in ESR dating of optically bleached quartz grains: Some examples from the Early Pleistocene terraces of the Alcanadre River (Ebro basin, Spain)

    Mathieu Duval;Carlos Sancho;Mikel Calle;Verónica Guilarte

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Christophe Falguères
Christophe Falguères Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Jacques Bahain
Jean-Jacques Bahain Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Pierre Voinchet
Pierre Voinchet French National Museum of Natural History
Norbert Mercier
Norbert Mercier University of Bordeaux
Helmut Brückner
Helmut Brückner University of Cologne
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University

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