Josep Maria Vergès

Biographic Data

ID81512
NAMEJosep Maria Vergès
GIVEN NAMESJosep Maria
FAMILY NAMEVergès
SIGNATUREVERGÈS J M
AFFILIATIONSInstitut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
ORCID0000-0003-1807-7463
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS70
TOTAL CITATIONS798
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • D morphometric analysis of rock engravings

    Open AccessMíriam Salas-Altès, Juan Carlos Morales et al.ARTICLEDigital Applications in…2026

  • Influences of seasonal prey availability and anthropogenic landscape on small-vertebrate based palaeoecological reconstructions

    Open AccessJosep Francesc Bisbal-Chinesta, Hugues-Alexandre Blain et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2026References: 75

    Birds of prey and carnivorous mammals are among the primary accumulating agents of faunal remains, mainly isolated bones and teeth in the karst sediment sites. The microvertebrate remains from their feces and pellets tend to be usually dispersed in the sediment at El Mirador cave (Atapuerca, Spain). Although, twenty small accumulations have been recovered in the Chalcolithic (MIR5) and Bronze Age (MIR4) levels. These accumulations contain an extr…

  • First step to distinguish between domestic and wild pig faecal biomarkers in archaeological sediments

    Open AccessAne Gorostizu-Orkaiztegi, Alicia Sanchez-Ortega et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2026References: 30

    The study of animal domestication and its development is a major challenge in archaeological science, as it integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines. In this sense, distinguishing between wild and domestic pig in archaeological sediments is an important goal in archaeology as it helps to trace the development of domestication in this species. In this manuscript, we report the identification of specific molecular features differentiating wil…

  • La Sala del Llac

    Open AccessE Martinez, Ernest Capella Martínez et al.ARTICLEArchivo Español de Arqueología2025

    Presentamos en este artículo los resultados de las intervenciones arqueológicas que el grupo de investigación GRESEPIA-URV, en colaboración con el IPHES-CERCA, ha efectuado entre 2019 y 2021 en la Sala del Llac de la Cova de la Font Major de l’Espluga de Francolí. En este espacio, que ya fue objeto de diferentes trabajos arqueológicos por parte de Salvador Vilaseca entre 1959 y 1964, se recuperaron una gran cantidad de vasos cerámicos, elementos …

  • Re-evaluating the human remains from El Bosquet cave (Mont-ral, Tarragona, Spain)

    M Á Moreno‐ibáñez, Miguel Ángel Moreno-Ibáñez et al.ARTICLEAnthropologischer Anzeiger2025

    During the early development of archaeology in Spain, many of the materials obtained from excavations were later forgotten in museum deposits. However, re-investigation of these collections with contemporary methodologies can still contribute valuable knowledge. This study presents the case of El Bosquet Cave (Mont-ral, Tarragona, Spain), located in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula. This cave was excavated and documented in 1956 and the recover…

  • Archaeomagnetic analyses on fumiers burned under controlled experimental conditions

    Open AccessÁngel Carrancho, Balázs Bradák et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2024

  • Identification of animal species housed and herding practices in ancient sediments from the Vallone Inferno rock-shelter (Scillato, Sicily, Italy) using faecal biomarkers, hormones, and their metaboli…

    Open AccessAsier Vallejo, Forgia et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2024

    The interest in the identification of animal species housed in caves or rock-shelters used as livestock pen and herding management along prehistoric and historic ages, is increasing to understand better the development of pastoral activities. In this manuscript, a method for the quantification of β-sterol/phytosterols, bile acids, hormones and hormones metabolites has been developed to determine the main pastoral activities carried out in Vallone…

  • New insights into shepherds’ activities

    Open AccessMónica Alonso Eguíluz, Rosa Maria Albert et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2024

  • Shepherds and animal husbandry, origins, and development

    Open AccessMonica Alonso-Eguiluz, Rosa Maria Albert et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2024

  • Paleolithic cave art at Simanya Gran (Northeast of Spain)

    Open AccessMíriam Salas-Altès, Marcos García-Diez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024References: 30

    A newly discovered Paleolithic rock art site is presented. • Rock art represents social value and exhibits cultural links. • The study demonstrates the existence of a long-distance graphic community during the Magdalenian period (14/14,500 and 12,000 years BP). Recent years have witnessed significant advancement in the understanding of prehistoric behavior, leading to the discovery of new assemblages that challenge established knowledge within th…

  • New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique

    Open AccessGörkem Cenk Yeşilova, Adrián Arroyo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2024Cited by: 1References: 70

    The bipolar technique is a flaking strategy that has been identified from 3.3 Ma until the twentieth century, with no geographical or chronological homogeneous distribution. It is represented by the intentional contact of an active percussive element against a core rested on an anvil. This tool composite has been described by some researchers as a sign of low-skill of hominins, unable to perform successfully free-hand flaking or for flaking low-q…

  • Animal husbandry in Sicilian prehistory

    Open AccessPatricia Martins, Chiara Messana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 1References: 21

    Starting in the mid-6th millennium cal BCE, Neolithic groups occupied the midlands of Sicily. The economy of these groups was based primarily on livestock farming. Archaeological and archaeobotanical data indicate an intensification of livestock practices during the Early Bronze Age, leading to a change in the landscape in the form of more open forests. The Vallone Inferno rockshelter in the Madonie massif is one of the few sites that has been sy…

  • Paradigms in Crisis

    Open AccessJosep Maria Vergès, Samuel Sardà et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023References: 8

    Paradigms such as the coexistence of incineration and inhumation funerary practices in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age are supported by the association of human remains with elements of material culture as guiding fossils. One example is the association established by Salvador Vilaseca in 1939 between the human remains and grooved pottery discovered in the Cova de Marcó in Tivissa (Ribera d’Ebre, Catalonia). This…

  • Prehistoric Herders and Farmers

    Open AccessPatricia Martin, Ethel Allué et al.BOOKPrehistoric Herders and Farmers2022

  • ATR-FTIR to distinguish Holocene fumier facies. A perspective from bone diagenesis at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

    Open AccessHéctor Del Valle, Isabel Cáceres et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022

  • Solving a ‘puzzle’. The global 4.2 ka Bond Event at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) and the importance of small mammal taphonomy to the interpretation of past environments and the…

    Open AccessSara García-Morato, Dores Marin-Monfort et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2022

    The regional climatic context in which Chalcolithic (MIR5) and Bronze Age (MIR4) levels from El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) are framed is affected by the 4.2 ka cal. BP event, a global event defined as a cooling and aridification phase. Previous works based on palaeoenvironmental inferences indicate conflicting results regarding the possible impact of the event on vegetation and small mammals from MIR5. Pollen record illustr…

  • Resinous deposits in Early Neolithic pottery vessels from the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula

    Open AccessAdrià Breu, A Rosell-Melé et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022Cited by: 4References: 19

    The use of resinous substances, certainly one of the earliest technologies developed by humans, was well-known by Holocene hunter-gatherers at the onset of the Neolithisation process across Europe. Recent research has revealed the use of birch bark tar in the central Mediterranean far from this taxon’s endemic regions both in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and shows that the first farmers from the Fertile Crescent hafted lithic tools and w…

  • Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves

    Open AccessAsier Vallejo, Jaime Gea et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 4References: 6

    Early husbandry practices that include herd management and the use of livestock areas such as sheepfold caves can be analysed in the context of different disciplines (e.g. zooarchaeology, micromorphology, and archaeobotany). In this study, a new and standard method for the determination of bile acids and steroidal hormones that incorporates microwave extraction-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry was used. This method has been applied success…

  • Identifying biological affinities of Holocene northern Iberian populations through the inner structures of the upper first molars

    Open AccessBeatriz Gamarra, M Lozano et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 2References: 88

    Neolithisation was a relatively fast process that affected both the interior and coastal zones of the Iberian Peninsula, but it was also a heterogeneous process that had diverse impacts on genomic and cultural diversity. In the Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic, a change in funerary practices, cultural material and trade networks occurred, and genomic heterogeneity decreased, suggesting human mobility and genetic admixture between different Iberian pop…

  • Palaeolithic archaeology in the conglomerate caves of north-eastern Iberia

    Open AccessJ I Morales, Artur Cebrià et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2022Cited by: 2References: 3

    Large, conglomerate caves in north-eastern Iberia have been significant places since the Neolithic through to historical times; however, their significance during the Palaeolithic has barely been explored. This project is the first systematic study of the use of these iconic geological landmarks among Pleistocene hunter-gatherers

  • Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of the Madonie mountain range

    Open AccessForgia, Vincenza Forgia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2021

  • Livestock activity biomarkers

    Open AccessCristina Vázquez, Asier Vallejo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 2References: 31

    Faecal matter is commonly recovered from archaeological sites related to human/animal activity. The identification of its source is essential to understand the domestication process and the relationship between humans and domestic animals in ancient times. Additionally, faecal matter is useful for determining the diet of animals. Therefore, the use of an appropriate biomarker is essential. The ratios of 5β-Stanols and bile acid biomarkers are mos…

  • Early sheep herd management in the inland of the Iberian Peninsula

    Open AccessPatricia Martins, Carlos Tornero et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2021Cited by: 4References: 77

  • Is a spatial investigation possible without long-distance refit/conjoin? Application to the MIS 11 lithic assemblage of levels E and J from La Cansaladeta site (Tarragona, Spain)

    Open AccessGörkem Cenk Yeşilova, Andreu Ollé et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2021Cited by: 3References: 106

    In this manuscript, we present the first systematic refitting results of the small-scale Middle Pleistocene (MIS11) rock shelter site of La Cansaladeta. The lithic materials that have been recovered from the archaeological levels E and J were the main study materials. These levels were investigated regarding spatial pattern analysis and analyzed with auxiliary methods such as quantitative density mapping demonstration and technological analysis o…

  • Degenerative joint disease in the Chalcolithic population of El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

    Open AccessMarta Yustos, M Lozano et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021Cited by: 1References: 74

    Degenerative joint disease (DJD) is one of the most common pathological conditions identified in the archaeological record and remains a health problem in modern populations. This study aimed to evaluate DJD of the vertebral column in a sample from a Chalcolithic collective burial at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) dated to 4,880-4,390 years cal. BP. Most of the human remains recovered were commingled and are in a good state of prese…