Rafael Mora
Biographic Data
| ID | 89622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Mora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mora |
| SIGNATURE | MORA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2162-0076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 584 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Toward age-friendly housing: Everyday practices of older women in common spaces of collective housing in Santiago, Chile
Bikesharing and ordinary cyclists from Chile: Comparing trips, attitudes, and health-behaviours
Neanderthal resilience and adaptability: Insights from the Abric Pizarro faunal assemblage during the MIS 4
The examination of faunal assemblages through zooarchaeological analyses constitutes a fundamental approach for gaining insight into the intricate behaviours of Neanderthals. Previous investigations have primarily focused on periods of relative environmental stability, and this has provided a wealth of relevant archaeological data. However, our understanding of Neanderthal resilience during the MIS 4, a period presumably characterised by harsh en…
La bicicleta en los instrumentos de planificación local: Un análisis de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile
Este manuscrito analiza el rol de la bicicleta en los distintos Instrumentos de Planificación Territorial Local (IPTL) de la ciudad de Santiago. Para ello, se analizan los Planes Reguladores Comunales (PRC), Planes de Desarrollo Comunal (PLADECO), Planes de Inversiones en Infraestructura de Movilidad y Espacio Público (PIIMEP) e instrumentos afines de 35 comunas capitalinas. Se registró la aparición de las palabras bicicleta (s) y ciclovía(s) en …
Planning for accessibility: The Divide Between Research and Policy in the Promotion of Equitable Mobility
Mobility-related social inequalities are receiving increasing attention from planning research and practice. Nevertheless, research seems to have a limited impact on urban policies addressing mobility. Using Santiago de Chile as a case study, the paper discusses the existing gaps between research on mobility-related equity concerns and existing policies and plans addressing urban mobility operating at national, metropolitan and municipal scales. …
The role of bike sharing stations in the perception of public spaces: A stated preferences analysis
Healthcare Kamikazes” during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Purpose in Life and Moral Courage as Mediators of Psychopathology
Although the required personal protective equipment was not available during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Spanish healthcare workers continued to work, being dubbed as 'healthcare kamikazes'. Two possible reasons are moral courage and purpose in life that, in turn, would modulate the appearance of psychopathology. Cross-sectional study was carried out in 90 Spanish and 59 Mexican healthcare professionals, and 56 medical and nursing st…
Social Inclusion and Physical Activity in Ciclovía Recreativa Programs in Latin America
Ciclovía Recreativa is a program in which streets are closed off to automobiles so that people have a safe and inclusive space for recreation and for being physically active. The study aims were: (1) to compare participant's spatial trajectories in four Ciclovía Recreativa programs in Latin America (Bogotá, Mexico City, Santiago de Cali, and Santiago de Chile) according to socioeconomic characteristics and urban segregation of these cities; and (…
Equity and accessibility of cycling infrastructure: An analysis of Santiago de Chile
Using the five Ws to explore bikeshare equity in Santiago, Chile
New excavations in the MNK Skull site, and the last appearance of the Oldowan and Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Reconstructing Mousterian landscapes in the southeastern Pyrenees (Roca dels Bous site, Pre-Pyrenees ranges, Spain)
Landscape evolution studies enable us to understand site formation processes affecting past hunter-gatherer settlements. This work presents a landscape reconstruction of Roca dels Bous site (RB), which is a reference site for the Late Mousterian occupation of the incised valleys of the southeastern Pyrenees. For this purpose, we combined geomorphological studies, stratigraphic descriptions, new single-grain optically stimulated luminescence datas…
How Many Handaxes Make an Acheulean: A Case Study from the SHK-Annexe Site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
The first major archaeological transition –and one that has received much attention– is that from the Oldowan to the Acheulean. The seminal work by Mary Leakey (1971) at Olduvai Gorge built the paradigm for the chronological, technological and evolutionary grounds over which such transition took place. The past decade has also witnessed the renewal of fieldwork in early Acheulean contexts at Olduvai, which is contributing new data to the debate o…
Identificación de elementos del paisaje urbano que fomentan la caminata en Santiago
Caminar es un modo de transporte sustentable y saludable, que debería ser promovido mediante la planificación y el diseño urbano. En este contexto, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo identificar los elementos del paisaje urbano que, desde la percepción del caminante, facilitan la caminata y, en contraste, los elementos que la inhiben, dentro de seis barrios pericentrales del Gran Santiago. Con este fin, se realizaron 120 walking interv…
Pen management and livestock activities based on phytoliths, dung spherulites, and minerals from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern pre-Pyrenees)
Exploring the mutual adaptive process of home-making and incremental upgrades in the context of Chile’s Progressive Housing Programme (1994–2016)
Spatial and orientation patterns of experimental stone tool refits
Freehand and bipolar experimental knapping of quartzite from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is used to conduct spatial analysis of artefact distributions using GIS techniques, and to investigate the orientation of refit lines using circular histograms. The aim of our study is to discern patterns that can be applied to the archaeological record in two domains, namely the identification of knapping episodes and the utility of refitting line orientations…
Active Cities could be Good Business: An Economic Evaluation of a Complete Street Project in Santiago, Chile
New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Oldowan technological behaviour at HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Technological behaviour in the early Acheulean of EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Patrones de sociabilidad en barrios vulnerables: Dos casos en Santiago, Chile
En las ciudades contemporáneas el espacio construido y el social se encuentran en un proceso constante de transformación. En este contexto, el barrio es una unidad cuya función es reunir a la comunidad y a sus prácticas, al mismo tiempo que opera como vínculo entre el espacio privado de la vivienda y la metrópolis. El rol del barrio en la construcción de la comunidad cobra especial relevancia en los barrios vulnerables. En Chile después de años d…
Rebel Cities. From the Right to the City to the Right to the Urban Revolution
Acheulean technological behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene landscape of Mieso (East-Central Ethiopia)
Change and Stasis in the Iberian Middle Paleolithic: Considerations on the Significance of Mousterian Technological Variability
The European Mousterian has traditionally been portrayed as a long period of technological stasis as opposed to the technotypological dynamism of Upper Paleolithic cultures. The classic debate on Mousterian variability explained interassemblage differences either by ethnic, cultural, functional, and chronological or by paleoenvironmental causes, but variability was based on typological considerations. Recently, technological factors have been int…
Percussion tools in Olduvai Beds I and II (Tanzania): Implications for early human activities
The Oldowan industry of Peninj and its bearing on the reconstruction of the technological skills of LowerPleistocene hominids
Technological behaviour in the early Acheulean of EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Acheulean technological behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene landscape of Mieso (East-Central Ethiopia)
The Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Cova Gran (Catalunya, Spain) and the extinction of Neanderthals in the Iberian Peninsula
Change and Stasis in the Iberian Middle Paleolithic: Considerations on the Significance of Mousterian Technological Variability
The European Mousterian has traditionally been portrayed as a long period of technological stasis as opposed to the technotypological dynamism of Upper Paleolithic cultures. The classic debate on Mousterian variability explained interassemblage differences either by ethnic, cultural, functional, and chronological or by paleoenvironmental causes, but variability was based on typological considerations. Recently, technological factors have been int…
Oldowan technological behaviour at HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Spatial and orientation patterns of experimental stone tool refits
Freehand and bipolar experimental knapping of quartzite from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is used to conduct spatial analysis of artefact distributions using GIS techniques, and to investigate the orientation of refit lines using circular histograms. The aim of our study is to discern patterns that can be applied to the archaeological record in two domains, namely the identification of knapping episodes and the utility of refitting line orientations…
New excavations in the MNK Skull site, and the last appearance of the Oldowan and Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Pen management and livestock activities based on phytoliths, dung spherulites, and minerals from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern pre-Pyrenees)
Abordando la noción de “variabilidad musteriense” en Roca dels Bous (Prepirineo suroriental, Lleida)
En este artículo se discute las implicaciones derivadas del cambio en la aportación de materias primas detectado en los niveles N10 y N12 de Roca dels Bous (Prepirineo suroriental). En estos contextos se recuperan conjuntos líticos con unos atributos en los métodos de talla y en el instrumental retocado que sugieren modificaciones en los comportamientos relacionados con la adquisición, elaboración, uso y abandono del instrumental. De estas observ…
The Big-Game Focus: Reinterpreting the Archaeological Record of Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic Economy [and Comments and Reply]
Exploring the mutual adaptive process of home-making and incremental upgrades in the context of Chile’s Progressive Housing Programme (1994–2016)
Identificación de elementos del paisaje urbano que fomentan la caminata en Santiago
Caminar es un modo de transporte sustentable y saludable, que debería ser promovido mediante la planificación y el diseño urbano. En este contexto, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo identificar los elementos del paisaje urbano que, desde la percepción del caminante, facilitan la caminata y, en contraste, los elementos que la inhiben, dentro de seis barrios pericentrales del Gran Santiago. Con este fin, se realizaron 120 walking interv…
Planning for accessibility: The Divide Between Research and Policy in the Promotion of Equitable Mobility
Mobility-related social inequalities are receiving increasing attention from planning research and practice. Nevertheless, research seems to have a limited impact on urban policies addressing mobility. Using Santiago de Chile as a case study, the paper discusses the existing gaps between research on mobility-related equity concerns and existing policies and plans addressing urban mobility operating at national, metropolitan and municipal scales. …
Using the five Ws to explore bikeshare equity in Santiago, Chile
Patrones de sociabilidad en barrios vulnerables: Dos casos en Santiago, Chile
En las ciudades contemporáneas el espacio construido y el social se encuentran en un proceso constante de transformación. En este contexto, el barrio es una unidad cuya función es reunir a la comunidad y a sus prácticas, al mismo tiempo que opera como vínculo entre el espacio privado de la vivienda y la metrópolis. El rol del barrio en la construcción de la comunidad cobra especial relevancia en los barrios vulnerables. En Chile después de años d…
Neanderthal resilience and adaptability: Insights from the Abric Pizarro faunal assemblage during the MIS 4
The examination of faunal assemblages through zooarchaeological analyses constitutes a fundamental approach for gaining insight into the intricate behaviours of Neanderthals. Previous investigations have primarily focused on periods of relative environmental stability, and this has provided a wealth of relevant archaeological data. However, our understanding of Neanderthal resilience during the MIS 4, a period presumably characterised by harsh en…
Comercio informal y estructura urbana periférica: Una Metodología De Análisis De Las Ferias Libres
El presente artículo analiza un aspecto usualmente no estudiado del hábitat residencial popular: las ferias libre dispuestas en las calles en forma periódica. El caso corresponde a la comuna de Quilicura, Santiago, donde la localización de las ferias dentro de la estructura urbana es analizada usando como marco metodológico la teoría de la Sintaxis Espacial, creada hace ya treinta años en la Universidad de Londres. Los resultados del estudio dete…
The Big-Game Focus: Reinterpreting the Archaeological Record of Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic Economy [and Comments and Reply]
Comercio informal y estructura urbana periférica: Una Metodología De Análisis De Las Ferias Libres
El presente artículo analiza un aspecto usualmente no estudiado del hábitat residencial popular: las ferias libre dispuestas en las calles en forma periódica. El caso corresponde a la comuna de Quilicura, Santiago, donde la localización de las ferias dentro de la estructura urbana es analizada usando como marco metodológico la teoría de la Sintaxis Espacial, creada hace ya treinta años en la Universidad de Londres. Los resultados del estudio dete…
The Oldowan industry of Peninj and its bearing on the reconstruction of the technological skills of LowerPleistocene hominids
Las autopistas urbanas concesionadas: Una nueva forma de segregación
If there were a model drivers' city, it would undoubtedly be the reference point for the interventions in Santiago in the past 30 years.Leaving aside the relatively isolated case of the subway, vast areas of land have been given over to road traffic.Concession roads mark the formalization of a class system among drivers that will, unfortunately, inform the way we understand and experience the city.
Percussion tools in Olduvai Beds I and II (Tanzania): Implications for early human activities
The early Acheulean in Peninj (Lake Natron, Tanzania)
Abordando la noción de “variabilidad musteriense” en Roca dels Bous (Prepirineo suroriental, Lleida)
En este artículo se discute las implicaciones derivadas del cambio en la aportación de materias primas detectado en los niveles N10 y N12 de Roca dels Bous (Prepirineo suroriental). En estos contextos se recuperan conjuntos líticos con unos atributos en los métodos de talla y en el instrumental retocado que sugieren modificaciones en los comportamientos relacionados con la adquisición, elaboración, uso y abandono del instrumental. De estas observ…
Dimensiones espaciales de la seguridad residencial: Flujos De Movimiento Y Campos Visuales
Este artículo analiza en forma breve las principales perspectivas con que el tema de la seguridad del há- bitat residencial ha sido abordado en nuestro país. Se plantea que la mirada dominante en el tema ha puesto un énfasis exagerado en la idea de una apropiación defensiva del espacio, por sobre la necesidad de construir comunidades sanas e integradas. Se propone a continuación un marco teórico alternativo a lo anterior, la metodología de la Sin…
Primate archaeology
Remarks on the Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Early Technological Strategies in Eastern Africa
Comercio, espacio público y gestión local: El caso de Providencia en Santiago de Chile
Sobre la apertura de pasajes peatonales ejecutados por el Municipio de Providencia a partir de 1970, se expone y evalúa la propuesta inicial versus su desarrollo durante los últimos treinta años, al tiempo que se examinan los cambios normativos que la operación ha desencadenado. Destaca la continuidad del proceso en el tiempo, que ha podido adaptarse a los cambios políticos y a los no menos importantes vaivenes económicos del país. Un conjunto de…
The Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Cova Gran (Catalunya, Spain) and the extinction of Neanderthals in the Iberian Peninsula
Mitología de la seguridad: La ciudad biopolítica
Mitologa de la seguridad: la ciudad biopoltica" es altamente atractivo, pues sugiere indagar en las races ontolgicas de los aspectos centrales del debate urbano en Latinoamrica en general y Chile en particular: cmo se gesta, qu esconde y a qu sentimientos apelan los discursos sobre la seguridad ciudadana. Si a eso le sumamos un cuidadoso trabajo de ilustracin exterior, el resultado es un objeto de deseo en formato 13x19 cm, bastante cmodo por lo …
Regenerating London Regenerating London. Governance, sustainability and community in a global city
Andrés Duany, Jeff Speck & Mike Lydon. The Smart Growth Manual
La Real Academia Espanola define el termino manual de varias maneras. Una es “libro en que se compendia lo mas sustancial de una materia”, mientras otras sugieren que es algo “casero de facil ejecucion” o “facil de entender”. Pues bien, este pequeno libro de Duany y Jeff Speck, aparecido el ano pasado, le hace honor al concepto. Y no solo porque sea McGraw-Hill la casa editora, sino porque su tamano (14 x 20.5 cm, 149 paginas), y la elegante curv…
Change and Stasis in the Iberian Middle Paleolithic: Considerations on the Significance of Mousterian Technological Variability
The European Mousterian has traditionally been portrayed as a long period of technological stasis as opposed to the technotypological dynamism of Upper Paleolithic cultures. The classic debate on Mousterian variability explained interassemblage differences either by ethnic, cultural, functional, and chronological or by paleoenvironmental causes, but variability was based on typological considerations. Recently, technological factors have been int…
Rebel Cities. From the Right to the City to the Right to the Urban Revolution
Acheulean technological behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene landscape of Mieso (East-Central Ethiopia)
Patrones de sociabilidad en barrios vulnerables: Dos casos en Santiago, Chile
En las ciudades contemporáneas el espacio construido y el social se encuentran en un proceso constante de transformación. En este contexto, el barrio es una unidad cuya función es reunir a la comunidad y a sus prácticas, al mismo tiempo que opera como vínculo entre el espacio privado de la vivienda y la metrópolis. El rol del barrio en la construcción de la comunidad cobra especial relevancia en los barrios vulnerables. En Chile después de años d…
Active Cities could be Good Business: An Economic Evaluation of a Complete Street Project in Santiago, Chile
New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Oldowan technological behaviour at HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Technological behaviour in the early Acheulean of EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Exploring the mutual adaptive process of home-making and incremental upgrades in the context of Chile’s Progressive Housing Programme (1994–2016)
Spatial and orientation patterns of experimental stone tool refits
Freehand and bipolar experimental knapping of quartzite from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is used to conduct spatial analysis of artefact distributions using GIS techniques, and to investigate the orientation of refit lines using circular histograms. The aim of our study is to discern patterns that can be applied to the archaeological record in two domains, namely the identification of knapping episodes and the utility of refitting line orientations…
Geography (28 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geology (11 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (10 works) · Pleistocene (10 works) · Acheulean (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Olduvai Gorge (8 works)