ALL PUBLICATIONS

The project has generated over 60 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 70% published in high-impact journals.

 

WP1: Palaeoeconomic reconstruction/Bioarchaeology

• Gelabert, P., Oberreiter, V., Straus, L.G. Gonzalez-Morales, M. Sawyer, S., Marín-Arroyo, A.B: et al. 2025.A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain. Nature Communications
• D’Aurelio, A.; Agudo Pérez, L.; Straus, L.; González Morales, M.R.; Morales-Muñiz, A.; Primafault, J.; Roussel, J.M.; Tissot, L.; Glise, S.; Lange, F.; Riquier, C.; Barbaza, M.; Berganza, E.; Arribas, J.L.; Arias, P.; Simonet, A.;  Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Chat, J.; Daverat, F. 2025. Phenotypic diversity of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) during the late Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the glacial refugium of Iberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Volume 675, 113073.
• 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.
• Torres-Iglesias, L.; Marín-Arroyo, A.; Welker, F.; De la Rasilla, M. 2024. Using ZooMS to assess archaeozoological insights and unravel human subsistence behaviour at La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia). Journal of Archaeological Science, 161, 105904.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Terlato, G.; Vettese, D.; Thun Hohenstein, U.; Tozzi, C.; Marín-Arroyo,A.B. 2022. Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Grotta La Fabbrica (MIS 3, Tuscany, Italy). Journal of Taphonomy, 16 (1-4). 189-190
• Sanz-Royo, A.; Terlato, G.; Marín-Arroyo, A. 2022. Not only humans at El Castillo Cave (Northern Iberia): the role of carnivores during the Transitional Aurignacian. Journal of Taphonomy, 16 (1-4).181-182
• Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; González-Rabanal, B.; Arteche, J.L.;Fatas, P.; González Morales, M.R. 2022. Bone weathering in an Atlantic environment: preliminary results of The Global Weathering Project. Journal of Taphonomy, 16 (1-4).103-104.
• Torres-Iglesias, L.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Rasilla, M. de la. 2022. Deciphering butchering practices of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers. A case study from La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia). Journal of Taphonomy, 16 (1-4).193-194.
• Torres-Iglesias, L.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Rasilla, M. de la. 2022. Estrategias de subsistencia durante el Solutrense cantábrico: el caso del Abrigo de La Viña (La Manzaneda, Asturias). Trabajos de Prehistoria 79(1), 11-29.
• Marin-Arroyo, A.B.; Sanz-Royo, A. 2021. 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, 1-15.
• 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
• 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), 2021, 1-23
• 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

 

WP1 & WP2

• 18. Pothier-Bouchard, G.; Burke, A.; Buckley, M.; Negrino, F.; Vallerand, A.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Riel Salvatore, J. 2024. Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis. PaleoAnthropology, 2, 298−334.
• Rios-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, Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea. MIS5-MIS3 Neanderthal occupations at Amalda III cave (Northern Iberian Peninsula). Quaternary Science Reviews,333,108666.
• 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)

 

WP1 & WP3

• 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

 

WP2: Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

• González-Rabanal, B.; Vidal Cordasco, M.; Jones, J. R.; Agudo Pérez, L.; Carmona-Ballestero, E.; López, B.; Martín Merino, M. A.; Ortega, A. I.; Straus, L. G.; Stevens, R. E.; Vega-Maeso, C.; González Morales, M. R.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025. Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory. PLoS One, 20(8), e0330249.
• Ibáñez-Herranz, L. Agudo-Pérez, M. Fernández-García, A. Cicero-Cabañas, M.C. Soulier, C. Normand, A.B. Marín-Arroyo. 2025. Bone collagen hydrogen isotopes as tracers of past local climate: The Aurignacian from Isturitz cave (France) as a case study. Reposit. Biorxiv.
• Marín-Arroyo, A.B. Leire Torres-Iglesias, Elsa Duarte, Lucía Agudo Pérez and Marco de la Rasilla. Assessing the chronostratigraphy of the Paleolithic sequence of La Viña rock shelter (Asturias, Spain). Radiocarbon https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2025.10161
• 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.
• 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. 2021. Iberian Neanderthals in forests and savannahs. Journal of Quaternary Science. 1-28

 

WP2 & WP3

• Berlioz, E., Fernández-García, M., Soulier, M.-C., Agudo-Pérez, L., Amorós Seller, G., Normand, C., Marín-Arroyo, A.B. 2026. Synanthropy of the Isturitz foxes during the Aurignacian is not proven. Journal of Human Evolution, Vol 210, 103782.
• Carrión García, J.S. (coord.).2022. Iberian Paleoflora and Paleovegetation: Pleistocene. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Murcia.
• Carrión García, J.S. (coord.).2022. Iberian Paleoflora and Paleovegetation: Holocene. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Murcia.
• Fernández-García, M., Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Agudo-Pérez, L., Cicero, A., Geiling, J. M., Daura, J., Sanz, M., and Marín-Arroyo, A. B.: 2024. Ecological evolution in northern Iberia (SW Europe) during the Late Pleistocene through isotopic analysis on ungulate teeth.
• 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.
• Carrión García, J.S. (coord.).2022. Paleoflora y Paleovegetación de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares: Pleistoceno. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Murcia.
• Carrión García, J.S. (coord.).2022. Paleoflora y Paleovegetación de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares: Holoceno. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Murcia.
• 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.

WP3: Palaeocological reconstructions

• Carrión, J.; Amorós, G.; Amorós, A.; Marín-Arroyo. B. 2026. Beyond the cold steppes: Neanderthal landscapes and the neglect of flora. Quaternary Science Reviews, 371.
• Sanz-Royo, A., Berlioz, E., Marín-Arroyo, A. B. 2025. Paleoenvironmental inferences from ungulate dental microwear texture analysis during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Covalejos (northern Iberia). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Volume 68.
• Jones R., J.; Stevens, R-E.; Mihailović, D.; Mihailović, B.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025. 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
• Vidal-Cordasco, M., Marín-Arroyo, A.B. 2025. Novel dynamics of human-carnivore interactions since the arrival of H. sapiens in Europe. Biorxiv
• Berlioz, E.; Fernández-García, M.; Soulier, M.-C.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; Amorós, G.; Normand, C.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025. Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago . Journal of Human Evolution202, 103665
• Carrión, J.; Amorós, G.; Ochando, J.; Magri, D.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Sánchez-Giner, M.V.; Amorós, A.; Munuera, M.; Di Rita, F.; Michelangeli, F.; Roksandic, M.; Mihailović, D.2024. Welcome to the forest theatre: Unveiling a Balkan refugium through paleoart. Quaternary Science Reviews,338,108829
• Carrión, J. et al. 2024. Tracing 40,000 years of vegetation change in the Baetic-Rifan biodiversity hotspot. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology Volume 331, December 2024, 105202
• 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

 

WP3 & WP4

• Vidal-Cordasco, M.; Terlato, G.; Ocio, D.; Marín-Arroyo. B. 2023. Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity. Sciences Advances, 9, 38.
• 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.
• Marín-Arroyo, A.; Vidal-Cordasco, M.2022. Behind the paper. Ecology and Evolution

 

WP4

• Vidal-Cordasco, G Rodríguez-Gómez, A.B Marín-Arroyo. 2025. Inter-band connectivity and climate shaped Neanderthal extinction and Homo sapiens’ dispersal. Reposit. Bioxiv.
• Vidal Cordasco, M., Marin Arroyo, A.B.2025. Novel dynamics of human-carnivore interactions linked to the arrival of H. sapiens in Europe. Science Bulletin.
• Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Herrero-Crespo, Á., Wassler, P., & García-de-los-Salmones, M. del M. 2025.Archaeological-Gastronomy tourism: tasting prehistory through creativity. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 1–21
• Amorós, A.; Carrión, J. S.; Crivellaro, F.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025. Out of the cave: Rewilding deep time at the Venice Biennale. iScience,Volume 28, Issue 9, 113392
• Sánchez-Yustos, P., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Arnold, L.J. et al. 2024. Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry at Cueva Millán in the hinterlands of Iberia. Scientific Reports ,14, 21705.
• 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. 2024. Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Science Advances, 10, eado3807.
• 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.
• Marín-Arroyo, A.B. 2022. SUBSILIENCE: Subsistencia y resiliencia humana ante los drásticos eventos climáticos acontecidos en Europa durante el Estadio Isotópico Marino 3*. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 79 (2), 258-273.
• Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025. Cueva de Aitzbitarte III, Errenteria, Gipuzkoa. Trabajos de la I campaña – 2022 y II campaña – 2023. Arkeoikuska
• 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.

 

COLLABORATIONS

• Margalida, A.; Couto, S.; Pinedo, S. O.; Gil-Sánchez, J. M.; Agudo Pérez, L.; Marín Arroyo, A.B. 2025.The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studiesEcology 106(9): e70191
• González-Rabanal, B.; Marín Arroyo, A.B.; Carmona-Ballestero, E.; Cuenca Solana, D.; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.; Martín Merino, M. A.; Ortega, A. I.; Straus, L. G.; Stevens, R. E.; Vega-Maeso, C.; González Morales, M. R.; Cristiani, E. 2025.New insights into prehistoric agriculture of northern Iberia from the analysis of starch grains embedded in dental calculus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 1644052.
• Manzella, G.; Fontana, A.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Agudo-Pérez, L.; Peresani, M.; Duches, R. 2024. 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. Quaternary 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
• Arenas, El. Et al 2024. 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 2024 (2)
• Jones, E.L.; ,Straus, L., Marín-Arroyo. A.B.; González Morales, M.G. 2023. Structuring domestic space in the Lower Magdalenian: an analysis of the fauna from Level 115 of El Mirón Cave, Cantabria. Antiquity 97 (392): 280–294.
• 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.
• 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 Reports12, 18589.
• 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.