Jacob Morales

Dados Biográficos

ID76002
NOMEJacob Morales
PRENOMESJacob
SOBRENOMEMorales
ASSINATURAMORALES J
AFILIAÇÕESUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
ORCID0000-0002-6781-2121
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES356
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2000
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H12

  • Buried in the pantry

    Open AccessPedro Henríquez-Valido, Jean‐bernard Huchet et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2026

    Entomology, the study of insects, is an integral part of modern forensic science and can also make substantial contributions in archaeology. Here, the authors report on archaeoentomological analyses conducted within the Cruz de la Esquina funerary cave (Acusa Seca, Gran Canaria, c . seventh–ninth centuries AD), offering insights into Indigenous practices. The identification of storage pests and various cadaveric species is used to interpret a cha…

  • Expanding Oued Beht

    Open AccessGiulio Lucarini, Youssef Bokbot et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2026

    Oued Beht, Morocco, is emerging as a key site for understanding later prehistory in the northwestern Maghreb. Previous fieldwork by the Oued Beht Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 2022 revealed major evidence of a large and complex focus of activity across the ridge during the mid-to-late fourth to earliest third millennium BC, associated with a previously little-known Final Neolithic phase interacting with contemporary southern Iberian developmen…

  • More than storage

    Open AccessIdaira Brito-Abrante, J Santana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026Referências: 38

    Integrated functional study of obsidian and other volcanic rock tools. • First direct evidence of sickle elements for cereal harvesting in the Indigenous Canary Islands. • The spatial association between tools and funerary area suggests their possible role in preparing the burial. Although volcanic rocks are commonly found in many assemblages, functional or use-wear studies focusing on these materials are still relatively limited. This study pres…

  • Human Subsistence and Climate Change in the Late Pleistocene of North-western Africa

    Open AccessJacob Morales, Alessandro Potì et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2025

  • Living on sand. A functional and PDSM analysis of obsidian and other volcanic rock tools from two coastal settlements

    Open AccessIdaira Brito-Abrante, Laurence Astruc et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2025Citada por: 1Referências: 35

    The state of the surfaces of prehistoric stone tools must be assessed before initiating traceological research as they may have suffered from post-depositional surface modifications (PDSM) stemming from sediment and aeolian abrasion and trampling that could have eliminated their original use-wear traces. PDSM research not only serves to avoid misinterpreting the use-wear but can shed light on formation processes of archaeological sites. Recognisi…

  • Ancient DNA from lentils (Lens culinaris) illuminates human - plant - culture interactions in the Canary Islands

    Open AccessJenny Hagenblad, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025Referências: 57

    The intimate relationship between humans and crop plants means that traces of human cultural practices become embedded in the crop genome. Genetic analyses of archaeological crop remains thus allow cultural consequences of societal change to be studied. The Canary Islands have a unique cultural history where the Hispanic colonization in the 15th century led to eradication of the indigenous culture, partial replacement of the human gene pool and a…

  • Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium

    Open AccessJenny Hagenblad, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2024Citada por: 4Referências: 1

    Landraces are described as genetically diverse, dynamic populations of unimproved crops. However, studying the development of a landrace population over longer periods of time has rarely been done due to a lack of suitable archaeological materials. The indigenous grain silos of Gran Canaria provide a unique opportunity for genetically analysing multiple specimens from the same time period as well as sampling the same population at multiple time p…

  • The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco

    Open AccessCyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2024Citada por: 1Referências: 28

    This report presents the first in-depth publication of preliminary data from Oued Beht, northwest Morocco, a remarkable site initially identified in the 1930s and now newly investigated. It is based on fieldwork undertaken in 2021–2022 (photogrammetry, survey and excavation), and associated study and analyses. Oued Beht is shown to be a large site of ca. 9–10 hectares in main extent, with many deep pits and convincing evidence for a full package …

  • Oued Beht, Morocco

    Open AccessCyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2024Citada por: 5Referências: 27

    The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, particularly between c. 4000 and 1000 BC. Here, the authors present the first results of investigations at Oued Beht, Morocco, revealing a hitherto unknown farming society dated to c. 3400-2900 BC. This is currently the earliest…

  • Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World

    Open AccessJacob Morales, Claudia Speciale et al.ARTICLEVegetation History and…2023Citada por: 10Referências: 9

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00334-023-00920-6

  • Palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of hominin occupations of the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3

    Open AccessJennifer Sherriff, Artur Petrosyan et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Advances2023Citada por: 11Referências: 29

    Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Armenian Highlands and wider southern Caucasus region emphasises the significance of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (c. 57–29 ka) as a crucial period for understanding hominin behaviours amidst environmental fluctuations. Ararat-1 cave, situated in the Ararat Depression, Republic of Armenia, presents potential for resolving emerging key debates regarding hominin land use adaptations during t…

  • Un lugar entre las dunas. Aprovechamiento oportunista de un espacio costero durante la etapa preeuropea de la isla de Gran Canaria (circa siglos VIII-XI AD)

    Open AccessAmelia C Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J Santana et al.ARTICLETrabajos de Prehistoria2021

    Este trabajo presenta los resultados del estudio pluridisciplinar de un asentamiento temporal preeuropeo situado en la Reserva Natural Especial de las Dunas de Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). Carece de estructuras estables de habitación, pero conserva de manera excepcional una estructura de combustión sobre la arena dunar. El sitio se ocupó en el cambio del I al II milenio AD, una etapa para la que se cuenta con escasos paralelos en la isla. Allí se d…

  • Woodworking in the cliffs? Xylological and morpho-technological analyses of wood remains in the Prehispanic granaries of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Open AccessPaloma Vidal-Matutano, Amelia C Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021

  • High-mountain plant use and management

    Open AccessJacob Morales, Paloma Vidal-Matutano et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2020Citada por: 2Referências: 7

  • Deeper Than Expected

    Open AccessDarío Bernal Casasola, Ferréol Salomon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maritime Archaeology2020Citada por: 2Referências: 3

  • Archaeoentomological indicators of long-term food plant storage at the Prehispanic granary of La Fortaleza (Gran Canaria, Spain)

    Open AccessPedro Henríquez-Valido, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Citada por: 11Referências: 8

  • An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Cultivation in the Canary Islands

    Open AccessJenny Hagenblad, Jacob MoralesARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2020Citada por: 2Referências: 38

    The Canary Islands are an archipelago that lies about 100 km west of North Africa. Barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) has been continuously cultivated since the colonization of the islands. To investigate the agricultural history of the islands, the DNA from multiple individuals of six extant landraces of barley was sequenced, and the resulting data were analyzed with ABC modeling. Estimates of separation times of barley populations on the different isla…

  • Changing Plant-based Subsistence Practices among Early and Middle Holocene Communities in Eastern Maghreb

    M Portillo, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2020Citada por: 6Referências: 11

    The eastern Maghreb is a key area for understanding environmental and cultural dynamics during the early and middle Holocene. Capsian populations from around 10000–7500 cal BP were among the last foragers in the region. Capsian sites are known as escargotières (land shell middens), and locally called rammadiyat (meaning ashy mound). As taphonomic conditions in Capsian open-air sites generally favour the preservation of resistant materials such as…

  • Arqueoentomología y arqueobotánica de los espacios de almacenamiento a largo plazo

    Open AccessPedro Henríquez-Valido, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLETrabajos de Prehistoria2019Citada por: 2Referências: 34

    Este trabajo pretende contribuir al estudio de las técnicas de almacenamiento utilizadas en el pasado mediante el análisis de los restos entomológicos y vegetales presentes en el granero prehispánico canario de Risco Pintado, fechado entre los siglos IX y XV cal DC. Este tipo de granero se caracteriza por agrupar numerosos silos excavados en la toba volcánica y situarse en lugares escarpados de difícil acceso y fácil defensa. Las excepcionales co…

  • Pots, plants and animals

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Katie Manning et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2019Citada por: 9Referências: 6

  • Crops of the first farming communities in the Iberian Peninsula

    Open AccessLeonor Peña‐chocarro, Guillem Pérez-Jordá et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2018

  • Oral health in Late Pleistocene and Holocene North West Africa

    Open AccessI De Groote, Jacob Morales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Referências: 25

  • Late Glacial Landscape Dynamics Based on Macrobotanical Data

    Yolanda Carrión Marco, Paloma Vidal-Matutano et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2018Referências: 16

    The site of Ifri El Baroud has one of the longest sequences excavated in recent times in NE Morocco, covering a chronology of ca. 23–13 ka cal BP. The sequence includes Early and Late Iberomaurusian levels and offers the possibility of investigating the economic, social and environmental processes that took place during this period. In this paper we present the results of the charcoal analysis carried out at the site with the aim of reconstructin…

  • The contribution of botanical macro-remains to the study of wild plant consumption during the Later Stone Age and the Neolithic of north-western Africa

    Open AccessJacob MoralesARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Citada por: 4Referências: 25

  • ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age

    Open AccessAbigail Desmond, Nick Barton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2018Citada por: 31Referências: 21