Joseba Rios-Garaizar
Biographic Data
| ID | 222373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseba Rios-Garaizar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseba |
| FAMILY NAME | Rios-Garaizar |
| SIGNATURE | RIOS-GARAIZAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8474-2156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 426 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Scientific virtual reality as a research tool in prehistoric archaeology: The case of Atxurra Cave (northern Spain)
Highlights: This study proposes the practical utility of an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience for the dissemination and study of Palaeolithic Rock Art. Thanks to a series of multidisciplinary studies, a virtual reconstruction of the archaeological context of an area with rock art has been achieved. The Palaeolithic lighting systems documented in Atxurra cave have been virtually recreated, allowing real-time interaction through VR. Abstrac…
Hubo ocupaciones achelenses en Santimamiñe
En 1960, el hallazgo de un bifaz de cuarcita en la excavación de Santimamiñe planteó la posibilidad de que hubiera habido ocupaciones achelenses en la cueva. Sin embargo, esta cuestión no ha sido valorada en las intervenciones arqueológicas posteriores ni considerada en las síntesis sobre el primer poblamiento de Bizkaia. La localización de ésta y otras piezas de aspecto arcaico en los almacenes del Arkeologi Museoa, unido a la publicación en lín…
Hornos de la Peña (Northern Iberia): New excavations, chronological and subsistence data of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
The study of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is one of the topics of more interest in the field of human evolution, where the differences in the subsistence strategies carried out by Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans have generated numerous debates during recent years. Hornos de la Peña cave (Cantabria, Northern Iberia), excavated during 1909-1910, contains archaeological levels attributed to this transition, which have prov…
Neanderthal technological variability: A wide-ranging geographical perspective on the final Middle Palaeolithic
Artekale 6 (Plentzia, Bizkaia). Un nuevo asentamiento al aire libre de corta duración del Paleolítico Medio en Uribe Kosta
En el transcurso de una intervención arqueológica en el solar no 6 de la calle Artekale 6 de la villa de Plentzia (Bizkaia) se localizó un conjunto lítico sobre el sustrato rocoso y bajo un depósito de arcillas de 40 cm de espesor. En este trabajo se describe este conjunto de núcleos y lascas, y se propone una atribución del conjunto al Paleolítico Medio, probablemente reciente. Además, se discute el papel de estos breves asentamientos en las est…
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: A Review of Methods and Constraints
Spatial analysis studies in Palaeolithic archaeology arise as indispensable research tools for understanding archaeopalaeontological sites. In general terms, spatial studies have been specialised in the description of the distribution of materials and in the definition of accumulation areas, with the aim of distinguishing intentional activities or studying postdepositional processes. In recent decades, the development of GIS tools has enabled hug…
Occupation and management of Bergerac territory between 250 and 35 Kans: Testing a Techno-Economic Overview
In this work, we propose to examine human activities from 72 occupations within a well-defined territory, the Bergeracois, during the Pleistocene between 250 and 35 ka. The study is based on bibliographical data stemming from programmed excavations and from rescue archaeology operations undertaken in this area (installation of rings roads around Bergerac and the Creysse municipality). In particular, this overview focuses on the behavioural evolut…
Occupation et gestion du territoire bergeracois entre 250 et 35 kA: Essai De Synthèse Techno-Économique
Cette contribution propose un bilan des activités identifiées sur 72 occupations humaines au sein d’un territoire bien délimité, le Bergeracois au cours du Pléistocène entre 250 000 et 35 000 ans. Fruit d’une compilation des données bibliographiques issues des fouilles programmées et de celles issues des travaux d’archéologie préventive sur ce secteur géographique (déviations de Bergerac est et ouest et commune de Creysse), cette synthèse met en …
Unraveling Châtelperronian high-density accumulations: The open-air site of Aranbaltza II (Bizkaia, Spain)
The Châtelperronian open-air site of Aranbaltza II presents a set of very particular characteristics, such as the large number of well-preserved lithic materials in a small area and the presence of lobular accumulations that represents the 33% of different size and shape of lithic materials of the whole assemblage. Through the application of density, hotspots, and 3D-fabric analysis, in combination with sedimentological data, we discuss the facto…
To be or not to be: Reassessing the origins of portable art in the Cantabrian Region (Northern Spain)
The characterization of the first portable artistic depictions in Cantabrian Spain is crucial for comprehension of the symbolic development of Neandertals and Homo sapiens in the context of the passage from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic. However, despite the importance of these first graphic representations, their study has tended to lack the application of suitable methodologies to be able to discriminate between graphic activity and other…
Un bifaz del Paleolitico Medio localizado en el entorno del yacimiento de Aranbaltza (Barrika, Bizkaia)
Se presenta el hallazgo de un bifaz de basalto en Lastarri, cerca del yacimiento de Aranbaltza. Se analizan sus características morfo-tecnológicas en relación con los bifaces atribidos al Paleolítico Inferior y Medio en el área cantábrica del País Vasco y se concluye que probablemente este bifaz está relacionado con las ocupaciones del Paleolítico Medio de Aranbaltza (120-55.000 años)
El Niño Cave (Aýna, Albacete, Spain): Late Middle Palaeolithic, Rock Art, and Neolithic Occupations from Inland Iberia
El Niño cave, located on the south-eastern border of the Spanish Meseta, hosts a discontinuous sequence including Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic levels, along with Upper Palaeolithic and Levantine style paintings. It is a key site for understanding human occupations of inland Iberia during the Palaeolithic and early prehistory. This paper summarises the main results of a multidisciplinary project aimed at defining the prehistoric human occupat…
Epiaurignacian industry with Sagaidak-Muralovka-type microliths industry in the south of Eastern Europe and Eastern Central Europe and its lithic artefact fossil types
In the article, Eastern and Central European Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) specific Epiaurignacian industry with Sagaidak-Muralovka-type microliths (EASMM) is discussed in terms of its lithic artefact fossil types.The proposed fossil types are carinated atypical endscraper-cores and Sagaidak-Muralovkatype microliths.These two lithic artefact types with some other techno-typological features of the considering EASMM industry type make it distinct wit…
Lithic technological choices of late Neandertals in a mountain environment south of the Ebro Valley, Iberian Peninsula (Peña Miel level e)
Hidden images in Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain): A new proposal for visibility analyses of Palaeolithic rock art in subterranean environments
Quantifying accessibility to Palaeolithic rock art: Methodological proposal for the study of human transit in Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)
Arte parietal paleolítico en la cueva de Aitzbitarte V (Errenteria, Gipuzkoa): Un nuevo conjunto diacrónico en la Región Cantábrica oriental
El arte parietal paleolítico de la cueva de Aitzbitarte V se descubre en 2015, en el marco de las labores de prospección desarrolladas en la última década en el oriente cantábrico. Hemos documentado una decena de grabados situados en tres sectores profundos de la cavidad y compuestos por representaciones de bisontes y líneas. Las características formales de los primeros son específicas del arte gravetiense en el caso de los sectores A, C y D, y d…
Revisiting Hornos de la Peña 100 years after
Sporadic occupation in Armiña cave during the Upper Magdalenian: What for
The Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) paleontological collection: New insights for the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Western Pyrenees
Modelled clay animals in Aitzbitarte IV Cave: A unique Palaeolithic rock art site in the Cantabrian Region
Microlithic lithic technology of Neandertal shellfishers from El Cuco rockshelter (Cantabrian Region, northern Spain)
The human remains from Axlor (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula)
A left parietal fragment (Level VIII) from a single probably adult Neandertal individual was recovered during the old excavations performed by Barandiarán. Additionally, two different Neandertal children lost deciduous teeth during the formations of levels V (left di 1 ) and IV (right dm 2 ). In addition, a modern human individual is represented by five remains (two currently lost) from a complex stratigraphic setting. Some of the morphological f…
La secuencia prehistórica de la cueva de Abittaga (Amoroto, Bizkaia): Evaluación de las excavaciones de J.M. Barandiarán (1964-1966)
El yacimiento de la cueva de Abittaga, excavado por J.M. Barandiarán entre 1964 y 1965, contiene una secuencia arqueológica con ocupaciones del Magdaleniense Superior y de la Prehistoria Reciente. Este yacimiento apenas ha participado en los debates de la prehistoria vasca de los últimos 40 años, fundamentalmente porque el yacimiento había sido estudiado de manera parcial y porque la información estratigráfica resultaba confusa. En este trabajo p…
Experimental approaches to the development of use-wear traces on volcanic rocks: Basalts
Ramification of lithic production and the search of small tools in Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic
Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault): A late Early Pleistocene archeological occurrence in southern France
A new chronological and technological synthesis for Late Middle Paleolithic of the Eastern Cantabrian Region
The stone tools from stratigraphical unit 4 of the Bois-de-Riquet site (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault, France): A new milestone in the diversity of the European Acheulian
A chrono-cultural reassessment of the levels VI–XIV from El Cuco rock-shelter: A new sequence for the Late Middle Paleolithic in the Cantabrian region (northern Iberia)
Une série lithique à composante Laminaire dans le Paléolithique moyen du Sud-Ouest de la France: Le site de Cantalouette 4 (Creysse, Dordogne, France)
Cantalouette 4 (Creysse, Dordogne, France) is situated within a karstic environment (in particular, a sink-hole) on the Pécharmant plateau along the right bank of the Dordogne River. Numerous Pleistocene occupations were excavated in 2004 by INRAP (Blaser et al., 2006) as part of a preventive archaeological project in preparation for the construction of a road bypass around Bergerac (Bourguignon et al., 2004). The occupation of Cantalouette 4 con…
The First Human Occupation of the Basque Crossroads
Relationship between size and precision of flake technology in the Middle Paleolithic. An experimental study
Experimental approaches to the development of use-wear traces on volcanic rocks: Basalts
A use-wear interpretation of the most common raw materials from the Olduvai Gorge: Naibor Soit quartzite
Microlithic lithic technology of Neandertal shellfishers from El Cuco rockshelter (Cantabrian Region, northern Spain)
The cave of Atxurra: A new major Magdalenian rock art sanctuary in Northern Spain
Hornos de la Peña (Northern Iberia): New excavations, chronological and subsistence data of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
The study of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is one of the topics of more interest in the field of human evolution, where the differences in the subsistence strategies carried out by Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans have generated numerous debates during recent years. Hornos de la Peña cave (Cantabria, Northern Iberia), excavated during 1909-1910, contains archaeological levels attributed to this transition, which have prov…
A naturalistic bird representation from the Aurignacian layer at the Cantalouette II open-air site in southwestern France and its relevance to the origins of figurative art in Europe
Lithic technological choices of late Neandertals in a mountain environment south of the Ebro Valley, Iberian Peninsula (Peña Miel level e)
Quantifying accessibility to Palaeolithic rock art: Methodological proposal for the study of human transit in Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)
Early Middle Palaeolithic occupations at Ventalaperra cave (Cantabrian Region, Northern Iberian Peninsula)
The Middle Paleolithic assemblage from Ventalaperra level III, excavated in 1931 by Aranzadi and Barandiarán, was initially interpreted as being Aurignacian, and then as a Late Middle Paleolithic assemblage. Recent excavations at the site undertaken by Ruiz Idarraga and d'Errico have confirmed the Middle Paleolithic attribution, and have additionally produced data on subsistence strategies and environmental conditions. The results obtained from t…
Unraveling Châtelperronian high-density accumulations: The open-air site of Aranbaltza II (Bizkaia, Spain)
The Châtelperronian open-air site of Aranbaltza II presents a set of very particular characteristics, such as the large number of well-preserved lithic materials in a small area and the presence of lobular accumulations that represents the 33% of different size and shape of lithic materials of the whole assemblage. Through the application of density, hotspots, and 3D-fabric analysis, in combination with sedimentological data, we discuss the facto…
The human remains from Axlor (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula)
A left parietal fragment (Level VIII) from a single probably adult Neandertal individual was recovered during the old excavations performed by Barandiarán. Additionally, two different Neandertal children lost deciduous teeth during the formations of levels V (left di 1 ) and IV (right dm 2 ). In addition, a modern human individual is represented by five remains (two currently lost) from a complex stratigraphic setting. Some of the morphological f…
Revisiting Hornos de la Peña 100 years after
The Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) paleontological collection: New insights for the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Western Pyrenees
Modelled clay animals in Aitzbitarte IV Cave: A unique Palaeolithic rock art site in the Cantabrian Region
A preliminary survey on hand grip and hand-tool morphometrics in three different stone tools
A palaeoenvironmental estimate in Askondo (Bizkaia, Spain) using small vertebrates
La secuencia prehistórica de la cueva de Atxurra (Berriatua, Bizkaia): Evaluación de las excavaciones de J.M. Barandiarán Ayerbe (1934-1935)
El yacimiento de la cueva de Atxurra fue excavado entre 1934 y 1935 por J.M. Barandiarn Ayerbe. Las condiciones de la excavacin, la tarda publicacin de los resultados y los avatares sufridos por los materiales arqueolgicos recuperados han condicionado el anlisis y la interpretacin del yacimiento y de su secuencia estratigrfica. Recientemente el yacimiento ha sido objeto de una revisin arqueolgica que ha propiciado una nueva lectura de la secuenci…
El Neolítico de la cueva del Niño (Aýna, Albacete) en el contexto de la Sierra del Segura
Desde su excavación en el verano de 1973, la Cueva del Niño ha sido considerada un yacimiento de gran importancia para conocer el proceso de introducción de la economía de producción o de la tecnología cerámica en el sureste de la Península Ibérica, y especialmente para establecer cómo dicho proceso pudo haber afectado a las poblaciones ya asentadas en la región de la Sierra del Segura. Sin embargo, la información proporcionada por la Cueva del N…
The Function(s) of Archaic Aurignacian Bladelets: Data and Thoughts Based on Examples from Isturitz Cave (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)
Very early on, prehistoric groups in the western Pyrenees benefitted from the favorable geographic situation and vast dimensions of Isturitz Cave. The excavations conducted there in the beginning of the 20th century revealed evidence of frequent occupations during the Middle, and especially Upper Paleolithic. Starting in 1999, new research in the Saint-Martin gallery has focused on its Aurignacian stratigraphic sequence. The base of this sequence…
Quelle(s) utilisation(s) pour les productions lamellaires de l’aurignacien archaïque ? Quelques données et réflexions à partir des exemplaires de la grotte d’Isturitz (Pyrénées‐Atlantiques, France)
Grâce à sa situation géographique privilégiée et à ses vastes dimensions, la grotte d’Isturitz a très tôt attiré les populations préhistoriques qui fréquentaient les Pyrénées occidentales. De fait, les fouilles entreprises dans la première moitié du XXe siècle ont mis en évidence des stratigraphies témoignant de fréquentes occupations durant les Paléolithiques moyen et surtout supérieur. A partir de 1999, la reprise des recherches dans la salle d…
Dental Anomalies in the Mandible of Capra pyrenaica: Presence of Two Permanent Fourth Premolars in a Pleistocene Wild Goat from Arlanpe Cave (Bizkaia, Northern Spain)
In this study, we report a case of duplication of a lower fourth premolar (P 4 ) on an Iberian wild goat from the archaeological site cave of Arlanpe, (Lemoa, Bizkaia, Northern Spain). The preserved right mandible corpus displays two premolars and the first molar (M 1 ). Both premolars conform in size and general shape to fourth premolars (P 4 ) but the medialmost of the two is rotated 90° counterclockwise, and thus, its wear pattern is different…
El uso de la cueva de Arlanpe (Bizkaia) en época tardorromana
En este trabajo se presentan los materiales arqueológicos tardorromanos (siglo IV d.C.) de la cueva de Arlanpe (Lemoa, Bizkaia). Se trata de fragmentos de terra sigillata y de cerámica común romana, vidrios, objetos metálicos, restos de fauna, etc., que fueron encontrados en el interior de dos fosas excavadas en el suelo de la cavidad. Ambas estructuras son interpretadas como “fosas de ofrendas” y se relacionan con algún tipo de ritual mágico-rel…
Haltes de chasse du Châtelperronien de la Péninsule Ibérique: Labeko Koba et Ekain (Pays Basque Péninsulaire)
La grotte ornée paléolithique d’Etxeberri (Camou-Cihige, Pyrénées-Atlantiques): Datation du contexte archéologique de la « Salle des peintures »
The cave of Etxeberriko Karbia, in the “ Massif des Arbailles” (Western Pyrenees), has been the subject of spelunking expeditions since the early 20th century. However, during a visit in May 1950, P. Boucher, with G. Laplace, discovered a small painting of a red horse as they were on their way out of the cave before crossing through a crawlway. The following year, Laplace decided to study the art in this cave and, in 1952, he published the result…
Une série lithique à composante Laminaire dans le Paléolithique moyen du Sud-Ouest de la France: Le site de Cantalouette 4 (Creysse, Dordogne, France)
Cantalouette 4 (Creysse, Dordogne, France) is situated within a karstic environment (in particular, a sink-hole) on the Pécharmant plateau along the right bank of the Dordogne River. Numerous Pleistocene occupations were excavated in 2004 by INRAP (Blaser et al., 2006) as part of a preventive archaeological project in preparation for the construction of a road bypass around Bergerac (Bourguignon et al., 2004). The occupation of Cantalouette 4 con…
The First Human Occupation of the Basque Crossroads
El final del Solutrense en el Oriente Cantábrico a través de las ocupaciones de la Cueva de Arlanpe (Lemoa, Vizcaya)
Arlanpe Cave site, situated in a strategic halfway between the Cantabrian coast and the Alavese Plateau, yielded a Solutrean level (level II) dated at the end of this period, between 21047 and 19909 cal BP. The lithic industry displays some unique characteristics, among which the most striking are the use of poor quality local raw materials (silicified mudstone), the transport of flint from distant locations situated at the North (Flysch) and Sou…
An updated inventory of the Isturitz type bone points of the cantabrian region
Nous présentons dans ce travail une révision du corpus des pointes de type Isturitz du Gravettien cantabrique, concernant les exemplaires déjà connus de Bolinkoba, Usategi et Aitzbitarte III, ainsi que celui provenant de la récente découverte du site d’Askondo. L’analyse inclut une approche technologique et fonctionnelle de ces pointes grâce à laquelle nous pouvons conclure que deux types primaires sont représentés : les pointes fusiformes légère…
Actualisation de l’inventaire des pointes de type Isturitz de la région cantabrique
Nous présentons dans ce travail une révision du corpus des pointes de type Isturitz du Gravettien cantabrique, concernant les exemplaires déjà connus de Bolinkoba, Usategi et Aitzbitarte III, ainsi que celui provenant de la récente découverte du site d’Askondo. L’analyse inclut une approche technologique et fonctionnelle de ces pointes grâce à laquelle nous pouvons conclure que deux types primaires sont représentés : les pointes fusiformes légère…
Identifying the Signs: The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Southwest Europe from the Perspective of the Lithic Record
The lithic record, together with archaeozoological remains, makes up the most abundant assemblages at European Palaeolithic sites. During many decades in the twentieth century, the classical typological analysis (the Bordesian paradigm) has been used to articulate the sequencing of the different cultural and chronostratigraphic units. At the same time, since the 1960s an alternative methodology known as Analytical Typology, proposed by Georges La…
La secuencia musteriense de la Cueva del Niño (Aýna, Albacete) y el poblamiento neandertal en el sureste de la Península Ibérica
En este artículo se presentan los resultados de la revisión de los materiales arqueológicos procedentes de la excavación realizada en 1973 en la Cueva del Niño (Aýna, Albacete) correspondientes a ocupaciones del Paleolítico Medio. Esta revisión se realizó fundamentalmente mediante el análisis tecnológico de la industria lítica, el estudio arqueozoológico y tafonómico de los restos de macromamíferos y el análisis de los restos carpológicos. Además…
A palaeoenvironmental estimate in Askondo (Bizkaia, Spain) using small vertebrates
Ramification of lithic production and the search of small tools in Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic
Evaluating Aurignacian Art in Iberia… if it Really Exists
Recent discoveries over the past years have confirmed the existence of figurative art from the very beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. Researchers have focused on the identification of this phenomenon in some regions (Dordogne, Ardeche or Swabian Jura), whereas others, such as the Iberian Peninsula, have been somewhat neglected. After a thorough analysis of the Iberian artistic record, we are now in a position to characterize the early stages of…
L’art aurignacien de la Péninsule ibérique… Existe-t-il vraiment
Ces dernières années, de récentes découvertes sont venues confirmer l’existence d’un art figuratif dès le début du Paléolithique supérieur. Si certaines régions ont été particulièrement investies par les chercheurs (Dordogne, Ardèche ou Jura souabe) dans la reconnaissance de ce phénomène, d’autres comme la Péninsule ibérique sont quelque peu restées dans l’ombre. Une analyse minutieuse du registre artistique ibérique nous permet aujourd’hui de ca…
The past is out there: Open-air Palaeolithic sites and new research strategies in the Cantabrian region (northern Iberia)
At the crossroad: A new approach to the Upper Paleolithic art in the Western Pyrenees
A naturalistic bird representation from the Aurignacian layer at the Cantalouette II open-air site in southwestern France and its relevance to the origins of figurative art in Europe
The Venuses Block From A rlanpe Cave ( N orthern I berian P eninsula): Implications for the Origins and Dispersion of G önnersdorf‐ L alinde Style Depictions Throughout the E uropean M agdalenian
In 2011, an engraved limestone block was found in the cave of A rlanpe ( L emoa, northern I berian P eninsula). One of the figures represented on it was identified as a schematic feminine representation similar to those of the G önnersdorf‐ L alinde style. The stratigraphical position of the block is not totally clear owing to severe disturbance in the U pper P leistocene deposits located near the entrance sector of the cave. Nevertheless, the mo…
Bois-de-Riquet (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault): A late Early Pleistocene archeological occurrence in southern France
Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing the Potential Use of Throwing Spears Among Neanderthals
Arte rupestre paleolítico al aire libre en el paraje de La Salud (valle del Tormes, Salamanca)
In 2013 a new open air rock art site was discovered in the place called La Salud in the city of Salamanca. In 2014 we carried out an intensive survey to have a better knowledge. As a result, in three decorated sectors were distinguished containing in total four animal representations –two horses, a cervico-dorsal line and a possible goat– and several non figurative motives composed by crossed lines. Different preservation issues affecting the sit…
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