José Ramos-Muñoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 904625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Ramos-Muñoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | José |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos-Muñoz |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS-MUÑOZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Cádiz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6042-2446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geoarchaeological review of the main flint outcrops in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula from the classical geological sources
This study presents the first comprehensive geoarchaeological synthesis and mapping of primary flint outcrops in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, specifically across the Penibetic, Subbetic, and Campo de Gibraltar domains. Through a systematic review of classical geological literature and reinterpretation of existing cartography, we identify, characterise, and georeference the main flint-bearing formations over an area of nearly 7000 km 2 . Ou…
Design and Development of a Scientific Lithotheque
The creation of the LitUCA lithotheque represents a significant methodological advance in geoarchaeological research in the southwest of Spain. This article presents a systematic framework for the conservation, documentation, and digital integration of lithic collections, with particular emphasis on data traceability, reproducibility, and interoperability. The methodology adopted is inspired by international standards, adapted to the regional con…
Archaeological Lithotheques of Siliceous Rocks in Spain
The use of lithotheques, libraries or collections of rocks is relatively recent in archaeological research in Spain. These collections have mostly been formed through isolated initiatives in different institutions, without any scientific strategy to guide their development and growth. The perspective in the last few years has changed substantially as these infrastructures are now regarded as a scientific resource of great interest and potential i…
Las primeras etapas del arte rupestre paleolítico en el sur de Iberia. Región de Málaga
En este trabajo proponemos un registro de cuevas del sur de Iberia que presentan manifestaciones gráficas paleolíticas compuestas por una variedad de signos, predominantemente digitaciones y puntuaciones, trazos, proyecciones de pigmentos sobre formaciones geológicas, o marcas de color aplicadas sobre la superficie o los bordes de espeleotemas. Se han agrupado bajo el concepto de horizonte anicónico. Las dataciones de series de uranio de la Cueva…
Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe
In recent decades, investigations in the southern Iberian Peninsula have increased our understanding of the socio-economic impact of the spread of the Neolithic in southwestern Europe, including changes in marine resources exploitation. Nevertheless, considerable uncertainty still exists around the seasonality of such subsistence systems and the putative role of marine fish and shellfish to the evolving agro-pastoral economies. Earlier studies on…
Application of photogrammetry and laser scanner on the Bronze Age structures of the Castillejos de Luna cist tomb necropolis (Pizarra, Spain)
The cist tombs necropolis at Castillejos de Luna, in Sierra de Gibralmora-Sierra del Hacho (Pizarra, Málaga, Spain) was known from the graphic documentation and the grave goods of two tombs. New studies have documented nine burials. The aim of this article is to present the new virtualisation work that has been carried out in the necropolis, to generate a new three-dimensional (3D) documentation of the currently known records, which are in accept…
Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain)
Molluscs used as personal adornment in Gravettian context are scarce in the Iberian Peninsula. Less than 200 pieces have been barely found along the Mediterranean, and most of them in coastal sites. This article presents thirteen new items – in the majority of marine origin – found by a Spanish-German team during a joint research project in Cueva de Ardales (Ardales, Malaga, Spain). The cave is one of the few interior sites in which this type of …
Diversified pottery use across 5th and 4th millennium cal BC Neolithic coastal communities along the Strait of Gibraltar
The archaeological results of Prehistoric societies obtained in the Archaeological Map of North Morocco Project
Les occupations humaines du Nord du Maroc, du Paléolithique Moyen et du Paléolithique Supérieur. Nouvelles données sur la base des recherches archéologiques des projets de 2005 à 2020
Mid-Holocene palaeoenvironmental record from the Atlantic Band of Cádiz (SW Spain) based on pollen and charcoal data
A contribution to the debate about prehistoric rock art in southern Europe
Ocupaciones de la Cueva de Ardales y Sima de las Palomas de Teba por sociedades neandertales
Un equipo interdisciplinar internacional viene realizando nuevas investigaciones en Cueva de Ardales (Ardales, Málaga) y en Sima de las Palomas (Teba, Málaga), enmarcadas en un Proyecto General de Investigación autorizado por la Junta de Andalucía. Presentamos un avance de los datos obtenidos en ambas cavidades en relación a la ocupación vinculada a sociedades neandertales con tecnología de tipo Paleolítico Medio
New archaeological data on the upper Paleolithic site of cueva de Malalmuerzo (Moclín, Granada, Spain)
The Malalmuerzo cave (Moclín, Granada, Spain) has been known since the 1980s for its archaeological remains and rock art, dated to the Neolithic and the Solutrean periods respectively. However, following thirty years of neglect, our team carried out a brief archaeological intervention after looters destroyed parts of the sediment fill of the cave. The refreshing of disturbed surfaces and the examination of a small undisturbed profile produced man…
Response to White et al.’s reply
The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years
Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…
Possible interpersonal violence in the Neolithic necropolis of Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain)
Un nuevo grupo de manos paleolíticas pintadas en el sur de la Península Ibérica. La cueva de Las Estrellas (Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz)
This work presents a review of the rock art conserved at a site located in the autonomous community of Andalusia, known in the preceding literature as the Las Estrellas cave (Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz). This is a large open-air rocky shelter, in which various schematic style pictographs were found, in the early years of this century. During a recent visit to the site, the existence of an important Palaeolithic figurative set was also noted,…
Response to Aubert et al.'s reply ‘Early dates for ‘Neanderthal cave art’ may be wrong’ [J. Hum. Evol. 125 (2018), 215–217]
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Raw materials, technology and use-wear analysis of scrapers and points of the rock shelter of Benzú
Similarities and differences in the lifestyles of populations using mode 3 technology in North Africa and the south of the Iberian Peninsula
Incidênciasda Tutela Jurídica Do Património Culturalem Portugal E No Brasil
This is a fragment of the opening conference of the First International Meeting of Cultural Rights of UFERSA, held in Mossoró, 2017. The purpose of this presentation was to address a general notion of cultural asset in comparison with the different normative plans concretized both in Portugal and in Brazil, identifying their protection zones and subsequent emphasis on underwater cultural heritage. After reviewing and updating, the conference was …
Site formation and chronology of the New Paleolithic Site Sima de Las Palomas de Teba, Southern Spain
The newly identified Paleolithic site Sima de Las Palomas de Teba hosts an almost seven-m-thick sediment profile investigated here to elucidate the rock shelter's chronostratigraphy and formation processes. At its base, the sediment sequence contains rich archeological deposits recording intensive occupation by Neanderthals. Luminescence provides a terminus ante quem of 39.4 ± 2.6 ka or 44.9 ± 4.1 ka (OSL) and 51.4 ± 8.4 ka (TL). This occupation …
Early use of marine resources by Middle/Upper Pleistocene human societies
Early use of marine resources by Middle/Upper Pleistocene human societies
Response to White et al.’s reply
Raw materials, technology and use-wear analysis of scrapers and points of the rock shelter of Benzú
A contribution to the debate about prehistoric rock art in southern Europe
Similarities and differences in the lifestyles of populations using mode 3 technology in North Africa and the south of the Iberian Peninsula
Middle Palaeolithic Mode 3 lithic technology in the rock-shelter of Benzú (North Africa) and its immediate environmental relationships
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Combined Raman spectroscopic and Rietveld analyses as a useful and nondestructive approach to studying flint raw materials at prehistoric archaeological sites
Excavating in breccia
Excavators examining breccia deposits are faced with the prospect of extracting finds from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless such deposits are sometimes the only witness of early Palaeolithic occupation. Our inventive authors put aside the hammers, acids and explosives of earlier days, and used quarry techniques to cut the breccia into small blocks, which they then freed from their finds in the laboratory, using tools developed in palaeon…
Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe
In recent decades, investigations in the southern Iberian Peninsula have increased our understanding of the socio-economic impact of the spread of the Neolithic in southwestern Europe, including changes in marine resources exploitation. Nevertheless, considerable uncertainty still exists around the seasonality of such subsistence systems and the putative role of marine fish and shellfish to the evolving agro-pastoral economies. Earlier studies on…
Aroche (Huelva, Andalucía)
Resultados arqueomalacológicos de la Cueva de Gar Cahal en el contexto regional de la Península Tingitana (norte de Marruecos)
Archaeological excavations carried out by Professor M. Tarradell in the 50s of last century in the caves of Gar Cahal and Kaf That Gar (Northern Morocco), made with methods typical of the time, provide data of great interest to understand the historical processes that occurred in northern Morocco from social formations hunter-gatherer to the initial class. The marine fauna of these sites, so far unpublished and deposited in the offices of the Arc…
The karst site of Las Palomas (Guadalteba County, Málaga, Spain)
Diversified pottery use across 5th and 4th millennium cal BC Neolithic coastal communities along the Strait of Gibraltar
The Investigation of the Ardales Cave, Spain – 3D Documentation, Topographic Analyses, and Lighting Simulations based on Terrestrial Laser Scanning
This contribution shows the application of terrestrial laser scanning in an integrative approach for the documentation and analyses of the Ardales Cave, southern Spain, which is in many respects an important geoarchaeological site. For the survey of the cave, a combination of the Riegl LMS Z420i laser scanner with a real‐time kinematic global positioning system (RTK‐GPS) from Topcon and further tachymetric measurements were used. The achieved thr…
El problema historiográfico de la diferenciación Epipaleolítico-Neolítico como debate conceptual
Para Enrique Vallesp, que ha sido para m desde que tuve la suerte de acercarme a l en abril de 1982 para iniciar mis estudios de doctorado, mucho ms que un maestro. Enrique ha sido un gran amigo, una persona entraable, juiciosa, de gran coherencia personal y un ejemplo de actitud tica. Hemos compartido ilusiones que desbordan ampliamente
Tecnología lítica de las Edades del Cobre y Bronce en la Marisma del Cuervo (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz)
Abordamos el estudio de la tecnologa ltica prehistrica de la Marisma del Cuervo, reflexio- nando sobre las actuales perspectivas tericas de interpretacin, considerando las grandes posibilidades que ofrece el Materialismo Histrico. Se presenta el marco de la Marisma y sus potencialidades de recursos lticos. Esbozamos el anlisis espacial y diacrnico, para desarrollar los procesos tecnolgicos de extraccin, talla, desbaste y distribucin del utillaje …
La Edad de Broce de San Fernando
Exponemos un balance sobre la Edad del
El Paleolítico Superior en la Bahía de Málaga
Estado de la cuestión y revisión historiográfica sobre el Paleolítico Superior en la Bahía de Málaga
Aplicación de las técnicas geoarqueológicas en el estudio del proceso histórico entre el V y III milenios a.n.e. en la comarca de la Janda (Cádiz)
Los trabajos sobre la Prehistoria de la comarca de La Janda (provincia de Cádiz) fueron realizados a principios de siglo desde el Historicismo Cultural. En la presente década nuestro grupo ha llevado a cabo prospecciones arqueológicas sistemáticas y excavaciones de urgencia, con el fin de conformar el proceso histórico de las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras, tribales y clasistas iniciales, que habitaron la Banda Atlántica de Cádiz. La aplicació…
El problema historiográfico de la diferenciación Epipaleolítico-Neolítico como debate conceptual
Para Enrique Vallesp, que ha sido para m desde que tuve la suerte de acercarme a l en abril de 1982 para iniciar mis estudios de doctorado, mucho ms que un maestro. Enrique ha sido un gran amigo, una persona entraable, juiciosa, de gran coherencia personal y un ejemplo de actitud tica. Hemos compartido ilusiones que desbordan ampliamente
The karst site of Las Palomas (Guadalteba County, Málaga, Spain)
Excavating in breccia
Excavators examining breccia deposits are faced with the prospect of extracting finds from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless such deposits are sometimes the only witness of early Palaeolithic occupation. Our inventive authors put aside the hammers, acids and explosives of earlier days, and used quarry techniques to cut the breccia into small blocks, which they then freed from their finds in the laboratory, using tools developed in palaeon…
Resultados arqueomalacológicos de la Cueva de Gar Cahal en el contexto regional de la Península Tingitana (norte de Marruecos)
Archaeological excavations carried out by Professor M. Tarradell in the 50s of last century in the caves of Gar Cahal and Kaf That Gar (Northern Morocco), made with methods typical of the time, provide data of great interest to understand the historical processes that occurred in northern Morocco from social formations hunter-gatherer to the initial class. The marine fauna of these sites, so far unpublished and deposited in the offices of the Arc…
The Investigation of the Ardales Cave, Spain – 3D Documentation, Topographic Analyses, and Lighting Simulations based on Terrestrial Laser Scanning
This contribution shows the application of terrestrial laser scanning in an integrative approach for the documentation and analyses of the Ardales Cave, southern Spain, which is in many respects an important geoarchaeological site. For the survey of the cave, a combination of the Riegl LMS Z420i laser scanner with a real‐time kinematic global positioning system (RTK‐GPS) from Topcon and further tachymetric measurements were used. The achieved thr…
Middle Palaeolithic Mode 3 lithic technology in the rock-shelter of Benzú (North Africa) and its immediate environmental relationships
Combined Raman spectroscopic and Rietveld analyses as a useful and nondestructive approach to studying flint raw materials at prehistoric archaeological sites
Site formation and chronology of the New Paleolithic Site Sima de Las Palomas de Teba, Southern Spain
The newly identified Paleolithic site Sima de Las Palomas de Teba hosts an almost seven-m-thick sediment profile investigated here to elucidate the rock shelter's chronostratigraphy and formation processes. At its base, the sediment sequence contains rich archeological deposits recording intensive occupation by Neanderthals. Luminescence provides a terminus ante quem of 39.4 ± 2.6 ka or 44.9 ± 4.1 ka (OSL) and 51.4 ± 8.4 ka (TL). This occupation …
Early use of marine resources by Middle/Upper Pleistocene human societies
Aroche (Huelva, Andalucía)
The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years
Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…
Possible interpersonal violence in the Neolithic necropolis of Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain)
Un nuevo grupo de manos paleolíticas pintadas en el sur de la Península Ibérica. La cueva de Las Estrellas (Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz)
This work presents a review of the rock art conserved at a site located in the autonomous community of Andalusia, known in the preceding literature as the Las Estrellas cave (Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz). This is a large open-air rocky shelter, in which various schematic style pictographs were found, in the early years of this century. During a recent visit to the site, the existence of an important Palaeolithic figurative set was also noted,…
Response to Aubert et al.'s reply ‘Early dates for ‘Neanderthal cave art’ may be wrong’ [J. Hum. Evol. 125 (2018), 215–217]
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Raw materials, technology and use-wear analysis of scrapers and points of the rock shelter of Benzú
Similarities and differences in the lifestyles of populations using mode 3 technology in North Africa and the south of the Iberian Peninsula
Incidênciasda Tutela Jurídica Do Património Culturalem Portugal E No Brasil
This is a fragment of the opening conference of the First International Meeting of Cultural Rights of UFERSA, held in Mossoró, 2017. The purpose of this presentation was to address a general notion of cultural asset in comparison with the different normative plans concretized both in Portugal and in Brazil, identifying their protection zones and subsequent emphasis on underwater cultural heritage. After reviewing and updating, the conference was …
Ocupaciones de la Cueva de Ardales y Sima de las Palomas de Teba por sociedades neandertales
Un equipo interdisciplinar internacional viene realizando nuevas investigaciones en Cueva de Ardales (Ardales, Málaga) y en Sima de las Palomas (Teba, Málaga), enmarcadas en un Proyecto General de Investigación autorizado por la Junta de Andalucía. Presentamos un avance de los datos obtenidos en ambas cavidades en relación a la ocupación vinculada a sociedades neandertales con tecnología de tipo Paleolítico Medio
New archaeological data on the upper Paleolithic site of cueva de Malalmuerzo (Moclín, Granada, Spain)
The Malalmuerzo cave (Moclín, Granada, Spain) has been known since the 1980s for its archaeological remains and rock art, dated to the Neolithic and the Solutrean periods respectively. However, following thirty years of neglect, our team carried out a brief archaeological intervention after looters destroyed parts of the sediment fill of the cave. The refreshing of disturbed surfaces and the examination of a small undisturbed profile produced man…
Response to White et al.’s reply
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