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García-Vadillo, F.-J., Carbonell, E., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., Barsky, D., Canals-Salomó, A., 2023. The Technological Multiplicity of the Acheulean of the Southern Iberian Peninsula. L’Anthropologie, Paléolithique de l’Europe 127, 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.103113

​Terradillos-Bernal, M., Zorrilla-Revilla, G., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., 2022. To be or not to be a lithic tool: analysing the limestone pieces of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 14, 189

Girbes, S., Sebastián, J., Rodríguez, X.P., Fontanals, M., Campeny, G., Gómez, B., Soler, M., 2022. Co-creation Processes Contributing to the Societal Impact of Science: Contributions from the Net4Impact Network. International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 11, 54–81

García-Vadillo, F.-J., Canals-Salomó, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., Carbonell-Roura, E., 2022. The large flake Acheulean with spheroids from Santa Ana Cave (Cáceres, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103265

García-Vadillo, Francisco Javier; Duval, Mathieu; Canals-Salomó, Antoni; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Xosé-Pedro; Garcia Garriga, Joan; Carbonell-Roura, Eudal, 2021, Contexto crono-estratigráfico y cultural del conjunto lítico de Base Menacho (cuenca del río Guadiana, Badajoz, España): primeros resultados. Cuaternario y Geomorfología 25 (3-4), 147-173.

Lombera-Hermida, A. De, Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., Ameijenda Iglesias, A., Díaz Rodríguez, M., Valverde Tejedor, I., Pérez-Alberti, A., Cunha, P.P., Bal García, H., Aldea Moreira, X., Lorenzo Salgueiro, C., Mosquera Castro, T., Fábregas Valcarce, R., 2021. Between two worlds: Cova Eirós and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in NW Iberia. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20, 859–886
García-Diez, M.; Viñas, R.; de Lombera-Hermida, A.; Rubio, A.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P.; Ochoa, B. & R. Fábregas-Valcarce 2021. Cova Eirós (Galicia, Spain): The ‘Finisterre’ of Paleolithic cave art, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35, 102756.

de Lombera-Hermida, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., García-Medrano, P., Pedergnana, A., Terradillos-Bernal, M., López-Ortega, E., Bargalló, A., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Saladié, P., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., 2020. The dawn of the Middle Paleolithic in Atapuerca: the lithic assemblage of TD10.1 from Gran Dolina. Journal of Human Evolution 145, 102812.

López-Ortega, E., Morales, J.I., Ollé, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., 2020. Avoiding the Blue and Black/White and Gold Argument: an Automated Colour Reference System Applied to Lithic Refit Processes. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27, 245–270.​

Cubas, M., Lucquin, A., Robson, H.K., Colonese, A. C., Arias, P, Aubry, B., Billard, C., Jan, D., Diniz, M., Fernandes, R., Fábregas-Valcarce, R., Germain-Vallée, C., Juhel, L., De Lombera-Hermida, A., Marcigny, C., Mazet, S., Marchand, G., Neves, C., Ontañón-Peredo, R., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Simoes, R., Zilaho, J., Craig, O.E., 2020. Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe. Nature Communications 11, 2036.

López-Ortega, E., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Ollé, A.,  Lozano, S. 2019. Lithic refits as a tool to reinforce postdepositional analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(9), 4555-4568.

Fábregas Valcarce, R., Faustino Carvalho, A., Lombera-Hermida, A. de, Cubas, M., Lucquin, A., Edward Craig, O., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., 2019. Vaso con decoración cardial de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo). Trabajos de Prehistoria; Vol 76 (1), 147-160.

González-Fortes, G., Tassi, F., Trucchi, E., Henneberger, K., Paijmans J L, A., Díez-del-Molino, D., Schroeder, H., Susca, R., Barroso-Ruíz, C., Bermudez, J., Barroso-Medina, C., Bettencourt A M, S., Sampaio H, A., Grandal-d’Anglade, A., Salas, A., Lombera-Hermida, A. de, Fabregas Valcarce, R., Vaquero, M., Alonso, S., Lozano, M., Rodríguez-Alvarez, X.P., Fernández-Rodríguez, C., Manica, A., Hofreiter, M., Barbujani, G., 2019. A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20182288.

Daffara, S., Berruti, G.-L.F., Caracausi, S., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., Sala-Ramos, R., 2018. The use of “second rate” raw materials during Middle Palaeolithic. Technological and functional analysis of two sites in north-eastern Iberia. L’Anthropologie 122 (4), 626-653.

Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P. & Lozano, S. 2018. Gender balance in the scientific production of the Atapuerca
archaeological and palaeontological research project
. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 96, 201-208.


Mosquera M., Ollé A., Rodríguez-Álvarez X.P., Carbonell, E. 2018. Shedding light on the Early Pleistocene of TD6 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain): The technological sequence and occupational inferences. PLOS ONE 13(1): e0190889.

Arsuaga, J.L., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Sala, N., Martínez-Pillado, V., Pablos, A., Bonmatí, A., Pantoja-Pérez, A., Lira-Garrido, J., Alcázar de Velasco, A., Ortega, A.I., Cuenca-Bescós, G., García, N., Aranburu, A., Ruiz-Zapata, B., José Gil-García, M., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Ollé, A., Mosquera, M., 2017. Evidence of paleoecological changes and Mousterian occupations at the Galería de las Estatuas site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Iberian plateau, Spain. Quaternary Research 88, 345-367.

Steelman, K., De Lombera-Hermida, A., Viñas-Vallverdú, R., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Carrera-Ramírez, F., Rubio-Mora, A., Fábregas-Valcarce, R., 2017. Cova Eirós: An Integrated Approach to Dating the Earliest Known Cave Art in NW Iberia. Radiocarbon 59, 151-164.

Terradillos-Bernal, M., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., 2017. The influence of raw material quality on the characteristics of the lithic tool edges from the Atapuerca sites (Burgos, Spain), Quaternary International 433A, 211-223.

López-Ortega, E., Bargalló, A., de Lombera-Hermida, A., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., 2017. Quartz and quartzite refits at Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos): Connecting lithic artefacts in the Middle Pleistocene unit of TD10.1. Quaternary International 433A, 85-102.

Huguet, R., J. Vallverdú, X.P. Rodríguez-Álvarez, M. Terradillos-Bernal, A. Bargalló, A. Lombera-Hermida, L. Menéndez, M. Modesto-Mata, J. Van der Made, M. Soto, H.A. Blain, N. García, G. Cuenca-Bescós, G. Gómez-Merino, R. Pérez-Martínez, I. Expósito, E. Allué, J. Rofes, F. Burjachs, A. Canals, M. Bennàsar, C. Nuñez-Lahuerta, J.M. Bermúdez de Castro & E. Carbonell. 2017. Level TE9c of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain): A comprehensive approach. Quaternary International 433A, 278-295.

Viñas-Vallverdú, R., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Rivera-González, I.I., Rodriguez-Alvarez, X.P., Rubio-Mora, A., Eudave-Eusebio, I.N., Solís-Torres, Ó.R. & Ardelean, C.F. 2017. Recent archaeo-palaeontological findings from Barranca del Muerto site, Santiago Chazumba, Oaxaca, México. Quaternary International 431B, 168-180.

Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., 2016. The use of quartz during the Lower Palaeolithic in northeastern Iberia. Quaternary International 424, 69-83

Rey-Rodríguez, I., López-García, J.-M., Bennàsar, M., Bañuls-Cardona, S., Blain, H.-A., Blanco-Lapaz, Á., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., de Lombera-Hermida, A., Díaz-Rodríguez, M., Ameijenda-Iglesias, A., Agustí, J., Fábregas-Valcarce, R., 2016. Last Neanderthals and first Anatomically Modern Humans in the NW Iberian Peninsula: Climatic and environmental conditions inferred from the Cova Eirós small-vertebrate assemblage during MIS 3. Quaternary Science Reviews 151, 185-197.

Ollé, A., Mosquera, M., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., García-Medrano, P., Barsky, D., de Lombera-Hermida, A. and Carbonell, E., 2016. The Acheulean from Atapuerca: Three steps forward, one step back. Quaternary International 411 (Part B), 316-328.

Ollé, A., J.M. Vergès, X.P. Rodríguez-Álvarez, I. Cáceres, D.E. Angelucci, J. Vallverdú, M. Demuro, L.J. Arnold, C. Falguères, M. Bennàsar, J.M. López-García, H.-A. Blain, S. Bañuls-Cardona, F. Burjachs, I. Expósito, L. López-Polín & E. López-Ortega, 2016. The Middle Pleistocene site of La Cansaladeta (Tarragona, Spain): Stratigraphic and archaeological succession. Quaternary International 393, 137-157.

Barsky, D., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A. and Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., 2016. The first peopling of Europe and technological change during the Lower-Middle Pleistocene transition. Quaternary International 393, 2-5.

de Lombera-Hermida, A., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P., Peña, L., Sala-Ramos, R., Despriée, J., Moncel, M.-H., Gourcimault, G., Voinchet, P. and Falguères, C., 2016. The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene Technology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 41, 159-184.

de Lombera-Hermida, A., Bargalló, A., Terradillos-Bernal, M., Huguet, R., Vallverdú, J., García-Antón, M.-D., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Sala, R., Carbonell, E., Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P., 2015.The lithic industry of Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) in the context of Early and Middle Pleistocene technology in Europe, Journal of Human Evolution 82: 95-106.

Terradillos-Bernal, M. & Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.-P. (2014). The influence of raw material qualities in the lithic technology of Gran Dolina (Units TD6 and TD10) and Galería (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain): A view from experimental archeology. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13 (6): 527-542.

Lozano, S., X.-P. Rodríguez & A. Arenas (2014). Atapuerca: evolution of scientific collaboration in an emergent large-scale research infrastructure. Scientometrics 98 (2): 1505-1520.

Mosquera, M.; Olle, A. & Rodriguez, X.P. (2013). From Atapuerca to Europe: Tracing the earliest peopling of Europe. Quaternary International 295: 130-137.

Ollé, Andreu; Mosquera, Marina; Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro; De Lombera-Hermida, Arturo; García-Antón, María Dolores; García-Medrano, Paula; Peña, Luna; Menéndez, Leticia; Navazo, Marta; Terradillos, Marcos; Bargalló, Amèlia; Márquez, Belén; Sala, Robert & Eudald Carbonell (2013). The Early and Middle Pleistocene Technological Record from Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain),Quaternary International 295: 138-167.

Terradillos, M. & X.P. Rodriguez (2012). The Lower Palaeolithic On The Northern Plateau Of The Iberian Peninsula (Sierra De Atapuerca, Ambrona And La Maya I): A Technological Analysis Of The Cutting Edge And Weight Of Artefacts. Developing An Hypothetical Model. Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (5): 1467-1479.

López-Ortega, E.; Rodríguez, X.P. & Vaquero, M. (2011). Lithic refitting and movement connections: the NW area of level TD10-1 at the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science 38 (11): 3112-3121.

Lazuén Fernández, T., R. Fábregas Valcarce, A. De Lombera Hermida,  X. P. Rodríguez Álvarez (2011). La gestión del utillaje de piedra tallada en el Paleolítico medio de Galicia. El nivel 3 de Cova Eirós. Trabajos de Prehistoria 68 (2).

Rodríguez, J.; Burjachs, F.; Cuenca-Bescós, G.; García, N.; Van Der Made, J.; Pérez González, A; Blain H.; Expósito, I.; López-García, J.M.; García Antón, M.; Allué, E.; Cáceres, I.; Huguet, R.; Mosquera, M.; Ollé, A.; Rosell, J.; Parés, J. M.;Rodríguez, X. P.; Díez, C.; Rofes, J.; Sala, R.; Saladié, P.; Vallverdú, J.; Bennasar, M. L.; Blasco, R.; Bermúdez De Castro, J.M. & Carbonell, E. (2011) One million years of cultural evolution in a stable environment at Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (11-12): 1396-1412.

De Lombera, A.;  Rodríguez, X.P., Fábregas Valcarce, R. & Moncel, M-H (2011) “La gestion du quartz au Pleistocene Moyen et Superieur. Trois exemples de l´Europe meridionale”, L´Anthropologie 114 (2): 294-331.

Carbonell, E.; Sala, R.; Rodriguez, X.P.; Mosquera, M.; Ollé, A.; Vergès. Martínez-Navarro, B. & Bermúdez De Castro, J.M. (2010). Early Hominid Dispersals: A Technological Hypothesis for the Out of Africa. Quaternary International 223-224: 36-44

Carbonell, E.; Mosquera, M.; Rodríguez, X.P.; Bermúdez De Castro, J.M.; Burjacs, F.; Rosell, J.; Sala, R.; Vallverdú, J. (2008). Eurasian Gates: The Earliest Human Dispersals. Journal of Anthropological Research 64: 195-228

Carbonell, E., Bermúdez De Castro, J. M., Parés, J. M., Pérez-Gonzélez, A., Cuenca-Bescés, G., Ollé, A., Mosquera, M., Huguet, R., Made, J. Van Der, Rosas, A., Sala, R., Vallverdú, J., García, N., Granger, D. E., Martinón-Torres, M.,Rodríguez, X. P., Stock, G. M., Vergès, J. M., Allué, E., Burjachs, F., Cáceres, I., Canals, A., Benito, A., Díez, C., Lozano, M., Mateos, A., Navazo, M., Rodríguez, J., Rosell J. And Arsuaga, J. L. (2008). The first hominin of Europe. Nature452(7186), 465-469.

Carbonell, E.; Mosquera, M. & Rodríguez, X. P. (2007). The emergence of technology: A cultural step or long-term evolution?. Comptes Rendus Palevol 6: 231-233.

Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Pérez-González, A., Rodríguez, X. P., Vaquero, M., Verges, J. M., & Carbonell, E. (2007). Valle de las Orquídeas: An upper Pleistocene open-air site at Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos) | Valle de las Orquídeas: Un yacimiento al aire libre del Pleistoceno superior en la Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos). Trabajos de Prehistoria, 64(2): 143-155.


Carbonell, E. & Rodriguez, X.P. (2006). The First Human Settlement of the Mediterranean Europe. Comptes Rendus Palevol 5: 291-298.

Carbonell, E., Bermúdez De Castro, J. M., Arsuaga, J. L., Allue, E., Bastir, M., Benito, A., Cáceres, I., Canals, T., Díez, J.C., Van Der Made, J., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Pérez-González, A., Rodríguez, J., Rodríguez, X. P., Rosas, A., Rosell, J., Sala, R., Vallverdú, J. & J. M. Vergés (2005). An Early Pleistocene hominin mandible from Atapuerca-TD6, Spain. Proc. Nat. Acad Sci USA 102: 5674-5678.

Carbonell, E., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Rodriguez, X. P., Sala, R., Vergès, J. M., Arsuaga, J. L. Y Bermúdez De Castro, J. M. (2003): Les premiers comportements funeraires auraint-ils pris place à Atapuerca, il y a 350,000 ans?. L’Anthropologie107: 1-14.

Rodriguez, Xosé Pedro, Carbonell, E. & Ortega, A. I. (2001). Historique des découvertes préhistoriques  de la Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Espagne) et perspectives du futur. L’Anthropologie 105 (2): 3-12.

Carbonell, E., Mosquera, M.,   Ollé, A., Rodríguez, X.P., Sahnouni, M. Sala, R. & Vergès, J.M. (2001). Structure morphotechnique de l’industrie lithique du Pléistocène inférieur et moyen d’Atapuerca (Burgos, Espagne). L’Anthropologie105 (2): 259-280.

Carbonell, E., Mosquera, M., Rodríguez, X.P., Sala, R. & Van Der Made, J. (1999). Out of Africa: the Dispersal of the Earliest Technical Systems Reconsidered. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18: 119-136.

Carbonell, E., Esteban, M., Martín Nájera, A., Mosquera, M., Rodríguez, X.P., Ollé, A., Sala, R., Vergès, J.M., Bermúdez De Castro, J.M. & Ortega, A.I. (1999): The Pleistocene site of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: a history of the archaeological investigations. Journal of Human Evolution 37: 313-324.

Carbonell, E., García-Antón, Mª D., Mallol, C., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Rodríguez, X.P., Sahnouni, M., Sala, R. & Vergès, J.M. (1999): The TD6 level lithic industry from Gran Dolina, Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain): production and use. Journal of Human Evolution 37: 653-693.

Bermúdez De Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., Cáceres, I., Díez, J.C., Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Mosquera, M., Ollé, A., Rodríguez, J., Rodríguez, X.P., Rosas, A., Rosell, J., Sala, R., Vergès, J.M. & Van Der Made, J. (1999): The TD6 (Aurora stratum) hominid site. Final remarks and new questions. Journal of Human Evolution 37: 695-700.

Carbonell, E., Mosquera, M., Rodríguez, X.P. & Sala, R.  (1996). The First Human Settlement of Europe. Journal of Anthropological Research 52 (1), 107-114.

Carbonell, E., Bermúdez De Castro, J.M., Arsuaga, J.L., Díez, .C., Rosas, A., Cuenca-Bescós, G., Sala, R., Mosquera, M. & Rodríguez, X.P. (1995). Lower Pleistocene Hominds and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain). Science 269 (2525), 826-830.

Ranov, V.A.; Carbonell, E. & Rodríguez, X.P. (1995). Kuldara: Earliest Human Occupation in Central Asia in Its Afro-Asian Context. Current Anthropology 36(2): 337-346. ISSN 0011-3204.

Carbonell, E. & Rodríguez, X.P. (1994). Early Middle Pleistocene deposits and artefacts in the Gran Dolina site (TD4) of the ‘Sierra de Atapuerca’ (Burgos, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution 26 (4): 291-311. ISSN 0047-2484
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