Rebeca García González
Biographic Data
| ID | 627176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebeca García González |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebeca García |
| FAMILY NAME | González |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Burgos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1035-6655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 460 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Gender identities in the prehistoric societies of south-eastern Iberia
Anthropological skeletal remains provide access to the embodied dimensions of daily life, allowing the exploration of how gender was shaped through culturally specific practices. Non-masticatory dental wear has recently emerged as a valuable proxy for identifying craft-related activities and their potential association with gendered roles. The aim of this study is to explore gender identities through non-masticatory dental wear analysis and the c…
Absolute Chronology and Demographic Insights from the Exceptional Infantile Chalcolithic Necropolis of the Galería del Sílex (Atapuerca, Spain)
Galería del Sílex, (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain), is a site of human occupation from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. This study presents 11 radiometric dates on human remains from the central area of the gallery, which date to the first third of the 3rd millennium BCE (pre-Bell Beaker). The assemblage represents an outstanding funerary space in European prehistory dedicated almost exclusively to young children, indicating a specific mortuary prac…
Towards a formation model of the Neanderthal symbolic accumulation of herbivore crania
Understanding formation processes is crucial for interpreting sites with complex sedimentary histories and exceptional archaeological records, such as Level 3 of Des-Cubierta Cave. This Middle Paleolithic unit contains an assemblage of anthropically modified ungulate horned crania, Mousterian lithics, and evidence of fire use, all preserved in a clast-supported gravel deposit shaped by successive rockfalls. This study integrates geostatistical an…
Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands
Nonmetric dental traits and odontometrics have demonstrated that pre‐European populations of the Canarian archipelago are closely related to Northwest Africans, revealing varying degrees of interisland diversity. However, a comprehensive study of differences across various islands has not yet been conducted. This study aims to analyze the differences in dental size among the island populations of the Canary Islands during the indigenous period. T…
Uncovering Childhood in the Roman Army
New and old approaches to understand lithic raw materials
Experimental use-wear on non-flint tools
Far from the walking pace. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of the suboptimal locomotion speeds in non‐adult humans
Introduction Locomotion activities are part of most human daily tasks and are the basis for subsistence activities, particularly for hunter–gatherers. Therefore, differences in speed walking‐related variables may have an effect, not only on the mobility of the group, but also on its composition. Some anthropometric parameters related to body length could affect walking speed‐related variables and contribute to different human behaviors. However, …
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)
OBJECTIVE: This article analyses new prehistoric evidence of trepanation from a collective burial site in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. MATERIALS: The trepanned individual was documented in the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, where 1348 individuals (30.7 % non-adults and 69.3 % adults) were deposited in two contiguous funerary phases, making it a reference site for the knowledge of Recent Prehistoric populations. METHODS: Th…
New insight into prehistoric craft specialisation. Tooth-tool use in the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Murcia, SE Spain
The study of non-alimentary tooth wear is an excellent tool to identify the development of specific activities and thus, to delve deeper into the social organisation and complexity of past populations. This paper analyses extra-masticatory wear in the dentition of a sample of 102 articulated skeletons from Camino del Molino, a unique collective tomb that housed 1,348 individuals throughout two contiguous phases spanning much of the 3rd millennium…
Estudio de un pequeño équido altomedieval del yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid)
En este trabajo, presentamos por primera vez el yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid) y el estudio de un pequeño équido, de los materiales óseos, cerámicos y líticos identificados en el Hoyo 17. Las dataciones radiométricas realizadas indican diferentes ocupaciones desde el Calcolítico (2632-2469 cal aC) hasta momentos altomedievales (774-660 cal dC) en contexto cultural visigodo. Las características morfológicas y métricas del esqueleto d…
Interpreting oral conditions of the past
The European colonization of the Canary Islands was accompanied by new farming and food processing techniques as well as new dietary patterns. The current study sheds light on the impact of these new techniques and foodstuffs by delving into the oral conditions of members of this society in this timeframe. The analyses of the oral conditions of 85 adults of the Modern Era of Gran Canaria combined with spatial, temporal, and sex criteria led to id…
A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage. Alongside evidence of Mousterian lithic industry, Level 3 of the cave infill was found to contain an assemblage of mammalian bone remains dominated by the crania of large ungulates, some associated with small hearths. The scarcity of post-cranial elements, teeth, mandibles and maxill…
Butchering or wood? A LSCM analysis to distinguish use-wear on stone tools
Hypercementosis of the Magdalenian human mandibular teeth from El Mirón cave, Cantabria (Spain)
Two new methodological approaches for assessing skeletal maturity in archeological human remains based on the femoral distal epiphysis
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Earliest modern humans out of Africa Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fos…
Dietary inferences from dental microwear patterns in Chalcolithic populations from the Iberian Peninsula
Cross-sectional properties of the lower limb long bones in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos sample (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
New methodology to reconstruct in 2‐D the cuspal enamel of modern human lower molars
OBJECTIVES: In the last years different methodologies have been developed to reconstruct worn teeth. In this article, we propose a new 2-D methodology to reconstruct the worn enamel of lower molars. Our main goals are to reconstruct molars with a high level of accuracy when measuring relevant histological variables and to validate the methodology calculating the errors associated with the measurements. METHODS: This methodology is based on polyno…
Fossil hominin radii from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain
Significance The middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos (SH) fossil collection provides the rare opportunity to thoroughly characterize the postcranial skeleton in a fossil population, comparable only to that obtained in the study of the Neandertal hypodigm and recent (and fossil) modern humans. The SH paleodeme can be characterized as relatively tall, wide, and muscular individuals, who are less encephalized than both Neandertals and modern human…
The Magdalenian human remains from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain)
Dietary inferences through dental microwear and isotope analyses of the Lower Magdalenian individual from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
The Neandertals of northeastern Iberia
Middle pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
This study presents a description and comparative analysis of Middle Pleistocene permanent and deciduous teeth from the site of Qesem Cave (Israel). All of the human fossils are assigned to the Acheulo‐Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC) of the late Lower Paleolithic. The Middle Pleistocene age of the Qesem teeth (400–200 ka) places them chronologically earlier than the bulk of fossil hominin specimens previously known from southwest Asia. Three pe…
Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS 5) Neanderthals of central Iberia
Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)
Metric and morphological study of the upper cervical spine from the Sima de los Huesos site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)
Early pleistocene human humeri from the gran dolina‐TD6 site (sierra de atapuerca, spain)
In this report, we present a morphometric comparative study of two Early Pleistocene humeri recovered from the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain. ATD6‐121 belongs to a child between 4 and 6 years old, whereas ATD6‐148 corresponds to an adult. ATD6‐148 exhibits the typical pattern of the genus Homo, but it also shows a large olecranon fossa and very thin medial and lateral pillars (also present in ATD6‐1…
Cross-sectional properties of the lower limb long bones in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos sample (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
The Magdalenian human remains from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain)
Dietary inferences through dental microwear and isotope analyses of the Lower Magdalenian individual from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage. Alongside evidence of Mousterian lithic industry, Level 3 of the cave infill was found to contain an assemblage of mammalian bone remains dominated by the crania of large ungulates, some associated with small hearths. The scarcity of post-cranial elements, teeth, mandibles and maxill…
Dietary inferences from dental microwear patterns in Chalcolithic populations from the Iberian Peninsula
Fossil hominin radii from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
New insight into prehistoric craft specialisation. Tooth-tool use in the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Murcia, SE Spain
The study of non-alimentary tooth wear is an excellent tool to identify the development of specific activities and thus, to delve deeper into the social organisation and complexity of past populations. This paper analyses extra-masticatory wear in the dentition of a sample of 102 articulated skeletons from Camino del Molino, a unique collective tomb that housed 1,348 individuals throughout two contiguous phases spanning much of the 3rd millennium…
Estudio de un pequeño équido altomedieval del yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid)
En este trabajo, presentamos por primera vez el yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid) y el estudio de un pequeño équido, de los materiales óseos, cerámicos y líticos identificados en el Hoyo 17. Las dataciones radiométricas realizadas indican diferentes ocupaciones desde el Calcolítico (2632-2469 cal aC) hasta momentos altomedievales (774-660 cal dC) en contexto cultural visigodo. Las características morfológicas y métricas del esqueleto d…
New methodology to reconstruct in 2‐D the cuspal enamel of modern human lower molars
OBJECTIVES: In the last years different methodologies have been developed to reconstruct worn teeth. In this article, we propose a new 2-D methodology to reconstruct the worn enamel of lower molars. Our main goals are to reconstruct molars with a high level of accuracy when measuring relevant histological variables and to validate the methodology calculating the errors associated with the measurements. METHODS: This methodology is based on polyno…
Butchering or wood? A LSCM analysis to distinguish use-wear on stone tools
Two new methodological approaches for assessing skeletal maturity in archeological human remains based on the femoral distal epiphysis
The Neandertals of northeastern Iberia
Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands
Nonmetric dental traits and odontometrics have demonstrated that pre‐European populations of the Canarian archipelago are closely related to Northwest Africans, revealing varying degrees of interisland diversity. However, a comprehensive study of differences across various islands has not yet been conducted. This study aims to analyze the differences in dental size among the island populations of the Canary Islands during the indigenous period. T…
Uncovering Childhood in the Roman Army
Experimental use-wear on non-flint tools
Metric and morphological study of the upper cervical spine from the Sima de los Huesos site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)
Étude analytique d’une clavicule complète de subadulte d’Homo antecessor (site de Gran Dolina, Sierra d’Atapuerca, Burgos, Espagne)
Middle pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
This study presents a description and comparative analysis of Middle Pleistocene permanent and deciduous teeth from the site of Qesem Cave (Israel). All of the human fossils are assigned to the Acheulo‐Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC) of the late Lower Paleolithic. The Middle Pleistocene age of the Qesem teeth (400–200 ka) places them chronologically earlier than the bulk of fossil hominin specimens previously known from southwest Asia. Three pe…
Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS 5) Neanderthals of central Iberia
Early pleistocene human humeri from the gran dolina‐TD6 site (sierra de atapuerca, spain)
In this report, we present a morphometric comparative study of two Early Pleistocene humeri recovered from the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain. ATD6‐121 belongs to a child between 4 and 6 years old, whereas ATD6‐148 corresponds to an adult. ATD6‐148 exhibits the typical pattern of the genus Homo, but it also shows a large olecranon fossa and very thin medial and lateral pillars (also present in ATD6‐1…
Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)
Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain
Significance The middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos (SH) fossil collection provides the rare opportunity to thoroughly characterize the postcranial skeleton in a fossil population, comparable only to that obtained in the study of the Neandertal hypodigm and recent (and fossil) modern humans. The SH paleodeme can be characterized as relatively tall, wide, and muscular individuals, who are less encephalized than both Neandertals and modern human…
The Magdalenian human remains from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain)
Dietary inferences through dental microwear and isotope analyses of the Lower Magdalenian individual from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
The Neandertals of northeastern Iberia
Fossil hominin radii from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
New methodology to reconstruct in 2‐D the cuspal enamel of modern human lower molars
OBJECTIVES: In the last years different methodologies have been developed to reconstruct worn teeth. In this article, we propose a new 2-D methodology to reconstruct the worn enamel of lower molars. Our main goals are to reconstruct molars with a high level of accuracy when measuring relevant histological variables and to validate the methodology calculating the errors associated with the measurements. METHODS: This methodology is based on polyno…
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Earliest modern humans out of Africa Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fos…
Dietary inferences from dental microwear patterns in Chalcolithic populations from the Iberian Peninsula
Cross-sectional properties of the lower limb long bones in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos sample (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
Hypercementosis of the Magdalenian human mandibular teeth from El Mirón cave, Cantabria (Spain)
Two new methodological approaches for assessing skeletal maturity in archeological human remains based on the femoral distal epiphysis
Butchering or wood? A LSCM analysis to distinguish use-wear on stone tools
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)
OBJECTIVE: This article analyses new prehistoric evidence of trepanation from a collective burial site in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. MATERIALS: The trepanned individual was documented in the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, where 1348 individuals (30.7 % non-adults and 69.3 % adults) were deposited in two contiguous funerary phases, making it a reference site for the knowledge of Recent Prehistoric populations. METHODS: Th…
New insight into prehistoric craft specialisation. Tooth-tool use in the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Murcia, SE Spain
The study of non-alimentary tooth wear is an excellent tool to identify the development of specific activities and thus, to delve deeper into the social organisation and complexity of past populations. This paper analyses extra-masticatory wear in the dentition of a sample of 102 articulated skeletons from Camino del Molino, a unique collective tomb that housed 1,348 individuals throughout two contiguous phases spanning much of the 3rd millennium…
Estudio de un pequeño équido altomedieval del yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid)
En este trabajo, presentamos por primera vez el yacimiento de Salmedina 2 (Vallecas, Madrid) y el estudio de un pequeño équido, de los materiales óseos, cerámicos y líticos identificados en el Hoyo 17. Las dataciones radiométricas realizadas indican diferentes ocupaciones desde el Calcolítico (2632-2469 cal aC) hasta momentos altomedievales (774-660 cal dC) en contexto cultural visigodo. Las características morfológicas y métricas del esqueleto d…
Interpreting oral conditions of the past
The European colonization of the Canary Islands was accompanied by new farming and food processing techniques as well as new dietary patterns. The current study sheds light on the impact of these new techniques and foodstuffs by delving into the oral conditions of members of this society in this timeframe. The analyses of the oral conditions of 85 adults of the Modern Era of Gran Canaria combined with spatial, temporal, and sex criteria led to id…
A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage. Alongside evidence of Mousterian lithic industry, Level 3 of the cave infill was found to contain an assemblage of mammalian bone remains dominated by the crania of large ungulates, some associated with small hearths. The scarcity of post-cranial elements, teeth, mandibles and maxill…
Far from the walking pace. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of the suboptimal locomotion speeds in non‐adult humans
Introduction Locomotion activities are part of most human daily tasks and are the basis for subsistence activities, particularly for hunter–gatherers. Therefore, differences in speed walking‐related variables may have an effect, not only on the mobility of the group, but also on its composition. Some anthropometric parameters related to body length could affect walking speed‐related variables and contribute to different human behaviors. However, …
Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands
Nonmetric dental traits and odontometrics have demonstrated that pre‐European populations of the Canarian archipelago are closely related to Northwest Africans, revealing varying degrees of interisland diversity. However, a comprehensive study of differences across various islands has not yet been conducted. This study aims to analyze the differences in dental size among the island populations of the Canary Islands during the indigenous period. T…
Geography (23 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (21 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (21 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Biology (15 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Geology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works)