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Nuno Bicho is affiliated with the University of Algarve in Portugal and has an extensive research background spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Archeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology, with additional contributions in Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers several key topics, including:

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

Nuno Bicho has published notable papers such as:

  • SPIN enables high throughput species identification of archaeological bone by proteomics, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Complexity in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Peninsular Southern Europe and application of refugium concepts, 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Nuno Bicho include:

  • João Cascalheira
  • Jonathan Haws
  • Milena Carvalho
  • Michael M. Benedetti
  • Lukáš Friedl

The scientist regularly publishes in several journals and venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • European Journal of Archaeology
  • Quaternary International
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Earliest known use of marine resources by neanderthals

    Miguel Cortés-Sánchez;Arturo Morales-Muñiz;María D. Simón-Vallejo;María C. Lozano-Francisco

  • The Rabbits of Picareiro Cave: Small Mammal Hunting During the Late Upper Palaeolithic in the Portuguese Estremadura

    Bryan Scott Hockett;Nuno Ferreira Bicho

  • The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southern Iberia

    Miguel Cortés Sánchez;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;María D. Simón Vallejo;Juan F. Gibaja Bao

  • At the land's end: Marine resources and the importance of fluctuations in the coastline in the prehistoric hunter–gatherer economy of Portugal

    Nuno Bicho;Jonathan Haws

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

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

  • The Emergence of Muge Mesolithic Shell Middens in Central Portugal and the 8200 cal yr BP Cold Event

    Nuno Bicho;Cláudia Umbelino;Cleia Detry;Telmo Pereira

  • The End of the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic in Portugal

    Nuno Ferreira Bicho

  • Chronology of the Mesolithic occupation of the Muge valley, central Portugal: The case of Cabeço da Amoreira

    Nuno Bicho;João Cascalheira;João Marreiros;Célia Gonçalves

  • Shell bead production in the Upper Paleolithic of Vale Boi (SW Portugal): an experimental perspective

    Frederico Tátá;João Cascalheira;João Marreiros;Telmo Pereira

  • The Upper Paleolithic Rock Art of Iberia

    Nuno Bicho;Antonio F. Carvalho;Cesar González-Sainz;Jose Luis Sanchidrián

  • Two sides of the same coin—rocks, bones and site function of Picareiro Cave, central Portugal

    Nuno Bicho;Jonathan Haws;Bryan Hockett

  • Intensive subsistence practices at Vale Boi, an Upper Paleolithic site in southwestern Portugal

    Tiina Manne;João Cascalheira;Marina Évora;João Marreiros

  • Vale Boi: Rendering new understandings of resource intensification and diversification in southwestern Iberia

    Tiina Manne;Nuno Bicho

  • Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites: Results from Southern Europe

    Brooks B. Ellwood;Francis B. Harrold;Stephen L. Benoist;Lawrence G. Straus

  • Late Pleistocene raised beaches of coastal Estremadura, central Portugal

    Michael M. Benedetti;Jonathan A. Haws;Caroline L. Funk;J. Michael Daniels

  • The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia.

    Jonathan A. Haws;Jonathan A. Haws;Michael M. Benedetti;Michael M. Benedetti;Sahra Talamo;Sahra Talamo;Nuno Bicho

  • Late glacial prehistory of central and southern Portugal

    Nuno Ferreira Bicho

  • Paleoecologia e ocupação humana da Lapa do Picareiro: resultados preliminares

    Nuno Bicho;William Belcher;Jonathan A. Haws;Anastasia Markova

  • Preliminary results from the Upper Paleolithic site of Vale Boi, southwestern Portugal

    Nuno Bicho;Jorge Correia;Mary Stiner;C. Reid Ferring

  • Coastal Foragers on Southern Shores: Marine Resource Use in Northeast Australia since the Late Pleistocene

    Sean Ulm

  • Mesolithic to Neolithic transitions: new results from shell-middens in the western Algarve, Portugal

    Mary C. Stiner;Nuno F. Bicho;John Lindly;Reid Ferring

  • Use-wear and residue analysis in archaeology

    Nuno F. Bicho;João Marreiros;João Marreiros;Juan Francisco Gibaja

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence Guy Straus
Lawrence Guy Straus University of New Mexico
Steven L. Forman
Steven L. Forman Baylor University
Brooks B. Ellwood
Brooks B. Ellwood Louisiana State University
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Clive Finlayson
Clive Finlayson Gibraltar Museum
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach Northumbria University
Caroline C. Ummenhofer
Caroline C. Ummenhofer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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