PUBLICATIONS

PhD dissertations

• Sanz-Royo, A. 2023. Subsistence strategies and human-environmental relationships during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in Northern Iberia. University of Cantabria.

 

• Amorós Seller, G. 2023. Palaeoart and nature historiographical analysis of the Neanderthal landscape. University of Murcia.

 

Books

• Carrión García . J.S. (coord.).2022. Paleoflora y Paleovegetación de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares: Plioceno-Cuaternario. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Murcia.

 

Journal articles

2025

WP1:Palaeoeconomic reconstruction/Bioarchaeology

• Jones R., J.; Stevens, R-E.; Mihailović, D.; Mihailović, B.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. New Insights into Serbian Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) Diet and Ecology Using Bone Collagen δ13C and δ15N Analysis in the Context of European Cave Bear Extinction Environmental Archaeology, 1–18

• Berlioz, E.; Fernández-García, M.;Soulier, M.-C.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; Amorós, G.; Normand, C.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago Journal of Human Evolution vol. 202, 103665

• Gelabert, P.; Oberreiter, V.;Straus, L.; González Morales, M.R.; Sawyer, S.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Geiling, J.M.; et al. A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain. Nature Communications vol. 16, 107.

 

2024

WP1:Palaeoeconomic reconstruction/Bioarchaeology

• Arenas Sorriqueta, E.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Gutiérrez Zugasti, I.; Cuenca Solana, D.; Yang, F.; O’Connell, T. Human Subsistence Before and After the 8.2 ka cal BP Event in Northern Iberia: Archaeozoology and Proteomic Data From the Macromammal Assemblage of El Mazo Rock Shelter. PaleoAnthropology, 2, 245−26
• Sanz-Royo, A.; Terlato, G.; Marín-Arroyo, A. 2024. Taphonomic data from the transitional Aurignacian of El Castillo cave (Spain) reveals the role of carnivores at the Aurignacian Delta level. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100147.
• Pothier-Bouchard, G.; Burke, A.; Buckley, M.; Negrino, F.; Vallerand, A.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Riel Salvatore, J. Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis . PaleoAnthropology, 2, 298−334

• Torres-Iglesias, L.; Marín-Arroyo, A.; Welker, F.; De la Rasilla, M.  Using ZooMS to assess archaeozoological insights and unravel human subsistence behaviour at La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia). Journal of Archaeological Science, 161, 105904.

 

WP2: Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

• Ochando, J.; Carrión, J.S.; Magri, D.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Di Rita, F.; et al. 2024. Balkan Neanderthals: The Late Pleistocene palaeoecological sequence of Pešturina Cave (Niš, Serbia). Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 330, 108600

• Fernández-García, M., Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Agudo-Pérez, L., Cicero, A., Geiling, J. M., Daura, J., Sanz, M., and Marín-Arroyo, A. B.:  Palaeoecology of ungulates in northern Iberia during the Late Pleistocene through isotopic analysis of teeth Biogeosciences, 21, 4413–4437

• Carrión, J.; Ochando, J.; Michelangeli, F.; Jiménez-Espejo, F.; Ojeda, F.; Amorós, G.; Munuera, M.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; González-Sampériz, P.; Rodríguez-Vidal, J.; Di Rita, F.; Magri, D. Tracing 40,000 years of vegetation change in the Baetic-Rifan biodiversity hotspot Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 331, 105202
• Manzella, G.; Fontana, A.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; Duches, R. Paleoecology of mid-mountain Alps (Trentino, Italy) between Greenland interstadial 1 and Early Holocene. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of ibex and red deer.  Quaternaty Science Reviews 328 (108549)

• Carrión, J.; Amorós, G.; Sánchez-Giner, M.V.; Amorós, A.; Ochando, J.; Munuera, M.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Jiménez-Arenas, J.M.2024. Greening a lost world: Paleoartistic investigations of the early Pleistocene vegetation landscape in the first Europeans’ homeland. Quaternary Science Advances, 14, 100185

 

Collaborations/other sites

• Ríos-Garaizar, J.; Sánchez-Romero, L.; Arriolabengoa, M.; Benito-Calvo, A.; Expósito, I.; Del Val, M.; Karambaglidis, T.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Pérez-Garrido, C.; Arenas-Sorriqueta, E.; Eixea, A.; Gómez-Olivencia, A.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; San Emeterio, A.; Arkeologi Taldea, A.2024. MIS5-MIS3 Neanderthal occupations at Amalda III cave (Northern Iberian Peninsula)
  Quaternary Science Reviews, 333, 108666
• Sala, N., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Arriolabengoa, M., Martinez-Pillado, V., (+11) Marín-Arroyo, A.B., (+8) Torres-Iglesias, L., Agudo-Pérez, L., Arribas, A., Carrión, J.S., Magri, D., Zhao, J.-X, Pablos, A. Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Science Advances, 10, eado3807.

 

2023

WP1:Palaeoeconomic reconstruction/Bioarchaeology

• Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Terlato, G.; Vidal-Cordasco, M.; Peresani M. 2023. Subsistence of early anatomically modern humans in Europe as evidenced in the Protoaurignacian occupations of Fumane Cave, Italy. Scientific Reports, 13, 3788.
• Sanz-Royo, A., Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Rivero, O., Rios-Garaizar, J.2023.  Hornos de la Peña (Northern Iberia): New excavations, chronological and subsistence data of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition. Archaeofauna, 32(1).
• Blanco-Lapaz, A.; Marín-Arroyo. A.B., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.; González-Echegaray de Yarto, F.; González-Morales, M. R. 2023. Coastal and Inland subsistence strategies during the Gravettian in the Cantabrian Region (northern Iberian Peninsula). Quaternary Science Advances, 12, 100106.
• Arenas-Sorriqueta, E.; Marín-Arroyo A.B.; Terlato G.; Torres-Iglesias, L.; Agudo Pérez, L.;  de la Rasilla, M. 2023. Subsistence strategies during the Gravettian in the rock shelter of La Viña (Asturias, N Spain). Quaternary Science Advances, 12, 100113.
• Marín‑Arroyo, A.B.; Geiling, J.M.; Jones, E.L.;Carvalho, M.; González Morales, M.R.; Straus, L.G. 2023. Seasonality of Human Occupations in El Mirón Cave: Late Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Settlement-Subsistence Systems in Cantabrian Spain. Journal of  Paleolithic Archaeology 6, 7.
• Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Jones, J.; Cristiani, E., Stevens, R.; Mihailovic, D.; Mihailovic, B. 2023. Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns in the Central Balkans: Šalitrena Pećina, Serbia. In The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe. Edited by Aitor Ruiz-Redondo and William Davies. Proceedings of the British Academy.

 

WP2: Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

• Fernández-García, M.; Vidal-Cordasco, M.; Jones, J.R.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.2023. Reassessing palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Cantabrian region (Southwestern Europe). Quaternary Science Reviews, 301, 107928. 
• Pederzani, S.; Britton, K.; Jones, J.; Agudo Pérez, L.; Geiling, J.; Marín-Arroyo, A. B. 2023. Late Pleistocene Neanderthal exploitation of stable and mosaic ecosystems in northern Iberia shown by multi-isotope evidence. Quaternary Research,116, 108-132.
• Marín-Arroyo, A. B.; González-Rabanal, B.; Arteche, J .L.; Fatás, P.; González Morales, M. R. 2023. Bone weathering in an Atlantic environment: preliminary results of the Global Weathering Project in Spain. Quaternary Science Advances, 12, 100112.
• Álvarez-Vena, A.; Marín-Arroyo A.B.; Álvarez-Lao, D.J.; Laplana, C.; Arriolabengoa M.; Ballesteros D.; Aranburu, A.; Bilbao, P.; Astorqui, A.; Díaz-Casado, Y.2023. Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in northern Iberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 616, 15, 111476.

 

WP3: Palaeocological reconstructions

• Vidal-Cordasco, M.; Terlato, G.; Ocio, D.; Marín-Arroyo. A.B. 2023. Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity. Sciences Advances, 9, 38.

 

2022

WP1:Palaeoeconomic reconstruction/Bioarchaeology

• Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Sanz-Royo, A. 2022. What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco-Cantabrian region of SW Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(2), 320–334.
• González-Rabanal, B., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Cristiani, E.; Zupancich, A.; González-Morales, M.R.2022. The arrival of millets to the Atlantic coast of northern Iberia. Scientific Reports 12, 18589. 

 

WP2: Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

• García-Escárzaga, A.; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Fernandes, R.; Núñez de la Fuente, S.; Cuenca-Solana, D.; Iriarte, E.; Simões, C.; Martín-Chivelet, J.; González-Morales, M.R.; Roberts, P. 2022. Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Scientific Reports, 12, 6481.

 

WP3: Palaeocological reconstructions

• Vidal-Cordasco, M., Ocio, D., Hickler, T.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B. 2022. Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6, 1644–1657.
  

 

2021-2020

 

• Estalrrich, A.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B. 2021. Evidence of habitual behavior from non-alimentary dental wear on deciduous teeth from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic Cantabrian region, Northern Spain. Journal of Human Evolution, 158, 103047.
  
• Borić, E.;  Cristiani, E.;  Hopkins, R.;  Schwenninger, J.L;  Gerometta, K.;  French,C.;  Mutri, G.;  Ćalić, J.; Dimitrijević, V.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.;  Jones, J.R.;  Stevens, R.;  Masciana, A.;  Uno, K.;  Korzow Richter, K.;  Antonović, D.;  Wehr, K.; Lane, C.; White, D.2021. Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(2), 142–180.
• Terlato, G.; Lubrano, V.; Romandini, M.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Benazzi, S.; Peresani, M. 2021. Late Neanderthal subsistence at San Bernardino Cave (Berici Hills – Northeastern Italy) inferred from zooarchaeological data. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 34 (2), 213-235.
• Sánchez-Romero, L.; Benito-Calvo, A.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; Karampaglidis, T.; Rios-Garaizar, J. 2020. New insights for understanding spatial patterning and formation processes of the Neanderthal occupation in the Amalda I cave (Gipuzkoa, Spain). Scientific Reports 10, 8733.

 

Pilot study results

• Rios-Garaizar J, Iriarte E, Arnold LJ, Sánchez-Romero L, Marín-Arroyo AB, San Emeterio A, et al. 2022.The intrusive nature of the Châtelperronian in the Iberian Peninsula. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265219

 

• Ríos-Garaizar, J.; Maíllo-Fernández, J.M.;  Marín-Arroyo, A.B.;  Sánchez Carro, M.A.;  Salazar, S.;   Medina-Alcaide, Mª A.; San Emeterio, A.; Martínez de Pinillos, L.;   Garate, D.; Rivero, O. 2020. Revisiting Hornos de la Peña 100 years after. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, 102259.

 

• Ochando, J.; Amorós, G.; Carrión, J.S.; Fernández, S.; Munuera, M.; Camuera, J.; Jiménez-Moreno, G.; González-Sampériz, P.; Burjachs, F.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Roksandic, M.; Finlayson C. Iberian Neanderthals in forests and savannahs. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(2), 335–362.

 

• Mihailović, D.; Kuhn, S.L.; Bogićević, K.; Dimitrijević, V.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Marković, J.; Mercier, N.; Mihailović, B.; Morley, M.W.; Radović P.; Rink W.J.; Plavšić, S.; Roksandic, M. Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia). Journal of Human Evolution,163, ,103138.

 

• De la Rasilla, M.; Duarte, E.; Sanchis, A.; Carrión, Y.; Cañaveras, J.C.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.;  Real,C.;  Núñez-Lahuerta, C.; Sánchez-Moral, S.; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.;   Jones, J.;  Rigaud, S.; Martínez-Cuesta, R.;  Torres, L.; Agudo, L.; Santos, G. 2020. Environment and subsistence strategies at La Viña rock shelter and Llonin cave (Asturias, Spain) during MIS3, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,30, 102198.

 

• Marín-Arroyo A.B.; Rios-Garaizar J.; Straus, L.G.; Jones, J.; De la Rasilla, M.; González Morales, M.R. 2018. Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. PlosOne 13(4)  e0199954

 

• Jones, J.; Richards, M.; Straus, L.; Reade, H.; Altuna, J.; Mariezkurrena, K.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2018. Changing environments during  the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the eastern Cantabrian Region (Spain): direct evidence from stable isotope studies on ungulate bones. Scientific Reports, 8, 14842.

 

• Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Mihailovic, B. 2017. The chronometric dating and subsistence of late Neanderthals and early anatomically modern humans in the central Balkans. Insights from šalitrena Pećina (Mionica, Serbia). Journal of Anthropological Research 73 (3), 413-447.