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

• 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.