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I graduated in History (2015) from the University of Murcia where I acquire my first experience on the field of Archaeology. Then, I conducted the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (2017) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili where he obtained an Honors Degree in my Master's Thesis. After that I got a FPU-MECD predoctoral contract – one of the most prestigious grants for early career researchers in Spain- in the Department of Prehistory at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2017-2022) obtaining a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at that institution. My PhD, entitled “The technical behaviour of Hunter-gatherer groups in northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Upper Palaeolithic”, supervised by Prof. Rafael Mora is comprised by International high-impact and peer-reviewed journal articles. During my PhD I explored variations on the technological behaviour and paleoecological adaptations of modern human populations during the Upper Paleolithic, applying technological and spatial analysis, archaeo-statistics and behavioural approaches. The quality of the research accomplished was rewarded with the highest distinction (Excellent Cum Laude) and the International Mention. During my PhD I conducted an international stay at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, 2019) and at the Universität of Tübingen (2019) as a visiting researcher. I participated in international projects in Asia "Mongolian Caves and Paleolakes Project" (2018) supervised by Prof. M. Petraglia and in Africa "Biogeographic and cultural adaptations of early humans during the first intercontinental dispersals" (2021) in the framework of the ERC-Advanced Grant led by Prof. Ignacio de la Torre Sáinz. I participated in 18 international conferences being the principal investigator in 7 of them. I am author of 8 articles in high-ranked scientific journals, and 4 book chapters, being the "corresponding author" in 7 of these publications. According to SCOPUS and Web os Science I have a h=4 index. I participated in teaching tasks at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018-2024) in the Archaeology, History and Humanities Degrees. I have mentored and supervised degree students in the study of stone tools and human behaviour. I have more than 20 fieldwork campaigns over 13 years of experience, being codirector of the Cova Gran de Santa Linya (2018-present) and of the Roca dels Bous (2021). Also, I have participated in international fieldwork in the Caune de L'Arago, France (2013-2015); Gobi-altai, Mongolia (2018); Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2021); Gruta da Companheira (2024-Ongoing) In parallel to my research activity, I am involved in outreach and knowledge transfer activities in both scientific and non-scientific environments. I have been part of the Outreach Committee of ICArEHB and participated in the dissemination of Science in CEPAP-UAB Since 2022 I have gained experience as postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Interdisciplinary Center of Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) (2023-2024) and the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) (2024-2025). Currently I am beneficiary of a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral grant at IPHES (2025 – ongoing) where I am seeking at variations in the organization of Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans in Iberia.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Javier Sánchez Martínez

Citation names

  • Sánchez-Martínez, Javier

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2B1A-FE60-0F7B
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8819-4177

Email addresses

  • jsanchez@iphes.cat (Professional)
  • jsmartinez@ualg.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Catalan Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/01/01 - 2026/12/31
Ongoing
 Institut Catal'a de Paleoeocologia Humana i Evolució Social (Pós-doutoramento)
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2022/12/15 - 2024/12/15
Concluded
 Margarita Salas postdoctoral grant (Pós-doutoramento)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2017/10/22 - 2022/03/22
Concluded
 PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology (Doctor)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"El comportamiento técnico de los grupos cazadores-recolectores en el noreste de la Península Ibérica durante el Paleolítico superior" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/10/11 - 2017/06/15
Concluded
 Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (Erasmus Mundus) (Master)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
2012/09/21 - 2015/06/22
Concluded
 Degree in History (Graduado)
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/01 - 2026/12/31 Principal Investigator (Research) España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2023/12/15 - 2024/12/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2022/12/15 - 2024/12/15 Postdoc (Research) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
(...)
2017/10/22 - 2022/03/22 Researcher (Research) Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/12 - Current Integrated Researcher Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current Applying lithic analysis and high-resolution methods to detect human behaviour in palaeolithic sites
JDC2023-051426-I
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - Current Poblament Humà al Prepirineu Oriental durant el Plistocé Superior i Holocé
CLT_2022_EXP_ARQ001SOLC_00000105
Post-doc
CEPAP-UAB, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
Ongoing
2022/12/15 - 2024/12/15 Exploring tool-life and recycling in Upper Paleolithic assemblages
CA1/RSUE/2022-889183
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
 European Union
Ongoing
2019/09/15 - 2019/12/16 FPU-MECD International Mobility Program
FPU16/03478 MOB
PhD Student Fellow
2015/09 - 2017/06 Erasmus Mundus + International Mobility Program
No number associated
Master Student Fellow
European Union

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/10/22 - 2022/03/22 El comportamiento técnico de los grupos cazadores-recolectores en el Noreste de la Península Ibérica durante el Paleolítico superior
FPU16/03478 MECD
PhD Student Fellow

Other

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current Entre la diversidad cultural y la variabilidad conductual: continuidad y cambio en las poblaciones neandertales de la Península Ibérica 2 (NEANDIVERSITY2)
PID2022-138590NB-C41
Post-doc
the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2023/05 - Current FINISTERRA - Population Trajectories and Cultural Dynamics of the Late Neanderthals in Far Western Eurasia
ERC-CoG 2021 FINISTERRA
Post-doc
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2023 - Current Neanderthal & modern human adaptive strategies at Cova Gran de Santa Linya
CFSCG-2025
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Centre for Field Science, United States
Ongoing
2022/09 - Current Evolució social, cultural i biològica al Plistocè/ Social, cultural, and biological evolution during the Pleistocene (StEP)
2021_SGR_01239. SGR2021
Post-doc
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
2024/01 - 2025/12 Social, Cultural and Biological Evolution during the Pleistocene (StEP)
2022PFR-URV-64
Post-doc
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Ongoing
2021 - 2022 Roca dels Bous Archaeological Project
RBAP2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Concluded
2018 - 2022 Poblament Humà al Prepirineu Oriental durant el Plistocé Superior i Holocé
CLT009/18/00012.
PhD Student Fellow
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació
Ongoing
2017/07/01 - 2022 Cova Gran Archaeological Project
CGAP2018
Researcher
2017/11/15 - 2021/11/15 Mongolian caves and paleolakes project
Private
Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie, Germany
 Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie
Concluded
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biogeographic and cultural adaptations of early humans during the first intercontinental dispersals
ERC-Advanced Grant
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2016 - 2020 Poblamiento y formas de vida durante el Pleistoceno y Holoceno en el Prepirineo Oriental
PID2019-104843GB-I00
PhD Student Fellow
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
2012 - 2016 Poblamiento y formas de vida durante el Pleistoceno y Holoceno en el Prepirineo Oriental
HAR-2016-75124-P
Other
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
 Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Mora, Rafael; Allué, Ethel; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Vega, Susana. "El Sector V: El final del Paleolítico superior en la Cova Gran de Santa Linya". In Actes II Jornades de Arqueologia i Paleontologia de Ponent. Generalitat de Catalunya, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Vega, Susana; Rodríguez-Pérez, Cèlia; Roda Gilabert, Xavier; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; González-Marcén, Paloma; Mora, Rafael; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. "A l’ull de la vall: tornant a la Cova del Tabac (Camarasa, Lleida)". In Actes II Jornades de Arqueologia i Paleontologia de Ponent. Generalitat de Catalunya, 2025.
    Accepted
  3. Mora Torcal, R.; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Plasencia-Figueroa, J.; Roda Gilabert, X.; Martínez-Moreno, J.. Corresponding author: Mora Torcal, R.. "And the times are changing: el Aziliense en el nordeste de Iberia.". In De las cavernas profundas a las altas cumbres. Homenaje a Manuel R. González Morales. Spain: Universidad de Cantabria, 2024.
    In press
  4. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Roda Gilabert, X.; Plasencia-Figueroa, J.; Vega Bolívar, S.; González-Marcén, P.; Martínez-Moreno, J.; Mora Torcal, R.. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. "Conectando Cova Gran con el Magdaleniense del Nordeste de Iberia". In Magdaleniense, Iberia tras el Último Máximo Glacial. Spain: Almuzara, 2024.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Martínez, Javier; Roda Gilabert, X.; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. Corresponding author: Martínez, Javier. "The 6W about Burins: developing a Burin-core analytical framework". Paper presented in 13th ISKM-International Symposium of Knappable Materials, Tarragona, 2021.
    Submitted
Conference poster
  1. Carvalho, Milena; Cobo-Sánchez, Lucía; Barbieri, Alvise; Alzate-Casallas, Guillermo; Andre, Lino; Ozdogru, Inci; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; et al. "Investigating site formation processes at Gruta da Companheira: preliminary results". Paper presented in European Association of Archaeologists, 2025.
  2. Alzate-Casallas, Guillermo; Barbieri, Alvise; Ferar, Nolan; Cobo-Sánchez, Lucía; Carvalho, Milena; Ozdogru, Inci; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; et al. "Buried by Breccia: Site Formation Processes at the Middle Paleolithic Companheira Cave (Southern Portugal)". Paper presented in Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG), 2025.
  3. Cobo-Sánchez, Lucía; Alzate-Casallas, Guillermo; Andre, Lino; Ozdogru, Inci; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Carvalho, Milena; Barbieri, Alvise; et al. "New excavations and preliminary findings on Pleistocene remains from Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal)". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society, 2025.
  4. Pablos, Adrián ; Mora Torcal, Rafael; Alonso-Llamazares, Carmen ; Arlegi, Miquel; Pantoja-Pérez, Ana ; Gómez-Olivencia, Asier; Rodríguez-Almagro, Manuel ; et al. Corresponding author: Pablos, Adrián. "Linya. A new Late Glacial partial skeleton from Cova Gran de Santa Linya site (Lleida, Spain)". Paper presented in 12th Annual European Society for the Studying of Human Evolution Meeting. European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 2022.
  5. Javier Sánchez-Martínez; Manuel Vaquero. "Territory and technology in Magdalenian site of Molí del Salt: some technoeconomical perspectives". Paper presented in XVIII Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), 2018.
Journal article
  1. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Rafart, Eulàlia; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Mora, Rafael.; Sánchez de la Torre, Marta. "Variations in human ecodynamics in the southern Pyrenees: chert procurement and use at Cova Gran de Santa Linya during the Upper Paleolithic". Quaternary International (2026):
    Submitted
  2. Barbieri, Alvise; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Belmiro, Joana; Fernandes, Paulo; Galfi, Jovan; Horta, Pedro; Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno. "Early evidence of human resilience to earthquakes from southwestern Iberia". Science Advances (2025):
    Submitted
  3. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Roda Gilabert, Xavier ; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. "Unravelling the burin-core dichotomy: Historiographic and technological data to develop a new analytical framework for the study of on-edge artefacts". Journal of Lithic Studies (2025): https://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/7296.
    Accepted
  4. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Belmiro, Joana; Ferar, Nolan; Roda Gilabert, Xavier ; Mora, Rafael.; Cascalheira, João. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. "Parts of a whole: understanding low-cost behaviours through lithic refittings in the Upper Palaeolithic". Sipringer Volume: "Expedient Technological Behavior in the Archaeological Lithic Record - Sweating the Simple Stones" (2025):
    Submitted
  5. Javier Sánchez-Martínez; Katia Calmet; Jorge Martínez Moreno; Xavier Roda Gilabert. "Virtual reconstruction of stone tool refittings by using 3D modelling and the Blender Engine: The application of the “ReViBE” protocol to the archaeological record". PLOS ONE (2024): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309611.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0309611
  6. Sánchez-Romero, Laura; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Mora, Rafael. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Romero, Laura. "Not only domestic spaces. Dismantling short-term occupations in Level 497D of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Pre-Pyrenees, Spain)". Journa of Quaternary Research 39 7 (2024): 1078-1097.
    Open access • Published
  7. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Roda Gilabert, X; Vega Bolívar, Susana; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Benito-Calvo, A.; Mora Torcal, Rafael. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. "Beyond Shapes: Core Reduction Strategies in the Magdalenian of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (NE Iberia)". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00115-x.
    10.1007/s41982-022-00115-x
  8. Sánchez-Martínez, J.; Mora Torcal, R.; Martínez-Moreno, J.; Roda Gilabert, X.; Roy-Sunyer, M.. "Carrying rocks: Hoarding behaviour in the Gravettian occupation of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (SE Pyrenees)". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85120352165&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103125
  9. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Mora Torcal, Rafael; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. Corresponding author: Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. "Re-evaluating the Gravettian technocomplex in Iberia: The 497C lithic assemblage from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern Pyrenees)". Quaternary International 587-588 (2021): 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.029.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.029
  10. Vanwezer, N.; Breitenbach, S.F.M.; Gázquez, F.; Louys, J.; Kononov, A.; Sokol'nikov, D.; Avirmed, E.; et al. Corresponding author: Vanwezer, N.. "Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia". Quaternary International 586 (2021): 66-89. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102615386&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.010
  11. Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Mora Torcal, Rafael; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Roy-Sunyer, Miquel ; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. Corresponding author: Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. "A bunch of refits: 497D blade knapping assemblage of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Cova Gran (Northeast Iberia)". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 9 (2019): 4585-4600. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054563843&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12520-018-0726-3
Magazine article
  1. Mora, Rafael; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. "Linya, una mujer de hace 14 000 años del Prepirineo de Lleida", DESPERTA FERRO, 2024, https://www.despertaferro-ediciones.com/2024/linya-mujer-sapiens-paleolitico-superior-prepirineo-lleida-palarq/.
Report
  1. Mora, Rafael; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Vega, Susana; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Roda Gilabert, Xavier. 2024. Dades treball de camp Cova Gran de Santa Linya 2024. https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34810/data1753.
  2. Mora, Rafael; Benito Calvo, Alfonso; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Vega, Susana; Rodríguez-Pérez, Cèlia; Roda Gilabert, Xavier. 2023. Dades treball de camp Cova Gran de Santa Linya 2023. https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34810/data1147.
  3. Mora, Rafael.; Martínez-Moreno, J; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Vega Bolívar, S.; González Marcén, P.; Benito-Calvo, A.. 2022. Memòria d'excavació Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes i Santa Linya, la Noguera).
  4. Mora , R.; Martínez-Moreno,J; Martínez, Javier; Vega Bolívar, S.; González Marcén, P.; Benito-Calvo, A.. Corresponding author: Mora , R.. 2021. Memòria d'excavació Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes i Santa Linya, la Noguera) 2020.
  5. Mora Torcal, Rafael; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Vega Bolívar, Susana; González-Marcén, Paloma; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso. Corresponding author: Mora Torcal, Rafael. 2020. Memòria d'excavació Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes i Santa Linya, La Noguera).
  6. Mora Torcal, Rafael; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Vega Bolívar, Susana; González-Marcén, Paloma; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier. Corresponding author: Mora Torcal, Rafael. 2019. Memòria d'excavació Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes i Santa Linya, La Noguera).
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "El comportamiento técnico de los grupos cazadores-recolectores en el noreste de la Península Ibérica durante el Paleolítico superior". PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2022. https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/675757.
  2. "Cuestiones tecnoeconómicas en la explotación de recursos líticos. La industria laminar del Molí del Salt (Vimbodí i Poblet, Tarragona)". Master, 2017.
  3. "Los núcleos en el paleolítico Medio. Estrategias de talla y producción". PhD, 2015.

Other

Data management plan
  1. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Vaquero, Manuel; Sopesens, Xavier. "Open Research Data Management Plan". 2025. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
Dataset
  1. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Calmet, Katia; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Roda Gilabert, Xavier. Replication Data for ReViBE: protocol for Refit Visualisation of lithic reduction sequences using the Blender Engine. CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca. 2024.
  2. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Roda Gilabert, Xavier; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge. Historiographic and technological data to develop a new analytical framework for the study of on-edge artefacts. Zenodo. 2023.
Other output
  1. ReViBE: protocol for Refit Visualisation of lithic reduction sequences using the Blender Engine. Replicative and FAIR lab protocol appoved by Protocols.io and PLOSONE to replicate and guide the workflow published on the journal article: Virtual reconstruction of stone tool refittings by using 3D modelling and the Blender Engine: the application of the “ReViBE” protocol to the archaeological record. PLOSOne (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309611). 2024. Sánchez-Martínez, Javier; Calmet, Katia; Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Roda Gilabert, Xavier. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.ewov1qxqkgr2/v1.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/09/03 Ritual and Transience: Unveiling Short-Term Neolithic Occupation at Cova del Tabac 31st EAA Annual Meeting
(Serbia)
2025/09/03 Heritage 4.0: the role of ICT in cultural tourism and community engagement 31st EAA Annual Meeting
2025/09/03 Investigating site formation processes at Gruta da Companheira: preliminary results 31st EAA Annual Meeting.
(Belgrade, Serbia)
2025/05/21 Buried by Breccia: Site Formation Processes at the Middle Paleolithic Companheira Cave (Southern Portugal). 11th Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG)
2025/05/05 The SUGAR project: Sweetening archaeological data management from fieldwork to digital domain. 52nd CAA International Conference
2025/04/22 Reconstructing human ecodynamics and chert procurement in the southern façade of the Pyrenees during the Upper Palaeolithic: the case of Cova Gran de Santa Linya 66th Hugo Obermaier Society Annual Meeting
2025/03/06 Linya, una dona de 14000 anys al Prepirineu Català “Xerrades amb espertesa”
Museo de la Noguera
2024/12/12 The use of refittings to characterise low-cost technologies in the archaeological record Invited lecture
Cycle of Seminars of Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES)
2024/09/18 El final del paleolític a la Cova Gran de Santa Linya Tribuna de Arqueologia
Generalitat de Cataluny. Departament de Cultura
2024/08/30 Investigating technical behaviour and site formation processes through lithic refittings from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Northeastern Iberia) 30th EAA Annual Meeting.
2024/08/29 Small game procurement during the Late Glacial in northeastern Iberia: a case study from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Spain) 30th EAA Annual Meeting.
2024/04 The deconstruction of technical behaviour: assessing the significance of low-cost technologies in the Upper Paleolithic. 89th Annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology
Society of American Archaeology (New Orleans, United States)
2024/03/22 Identificación y caracterización de los pigmentos procedentes del panel rupestre y las ocupaciones de Cova del Tabac (Camarasa, Lleida) : Jornada de Arte Rupestre Patrimonio Mundial del Prepirineo
(Camarasa, Spain)
2023/10/20 El final del Paleolític superior a la Cova Gran de Santa Linya II Jornades de Arqueologia de i Paleontologia de Ponent
Universitat de Lleida (Guissona, Spain)
2023/09/01 Chert provisioning and use during the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Iberia: the case of Vale Boi 29th EAA Annual Meeting
Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, United Kingdom)
2023/09 Bipolar technique as a resilient response among the hunter-gatherers of the Early Holocene in Balma Guilanyà (Southeast Prepyrenees, Iberian Peninsula) XXth Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)
West Univerisity (Timisoara, Romania)
2023 Sector V: El final del Paleolític superior a la Cova Gran de Santa Linya II Jornades d’Arqueologia i Paleontologia de Ponent
(Guissona, Spain)
2023 Exploring technical behaviour through time: The Upper Paleolithic sequence of Cova Gran (NE Iberia) Cycle of Seminars of Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour
Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour
2022 Linya. A new Late Glacial partial skeleton from Cova Gran de Santa Linya site (Lleida, Spain) 12th meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
Universitat Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
2021 Knapping on the edge: Burin-core technology in the Magdalenian of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (SE Pyrenees) 13th International Symposium of Knappable Materials
Institut de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES) (Tarragona, Spain)
2019 Amplifying technical diversity of Gravettian in southwestern Europe: the EUP occupations of Cova Gran de Santa Linya III World of Gravettian Hunters Meeting
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals (Krakow, Poland)
2019 10,000 km and 21 flat tires: New interdisciplinary archaeological investigations of the palaeolakes and caves in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia 9th Annual European Society for the Studying of Human Evolution Meeting. European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
University of Liège (Liège, Belgium)
2019 Between great plains: Defining human occupations through palaeolakes and caves in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia Conferences in Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2018 Territory and technology in Magdalenian site of Molí del Salt. Some technoeconomical perspectives XVIII Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)
Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris, France)
2018 Carrying rocks. An Early Upper Palaeolithic cache in the south-eastern Pyrenees. XVIII Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)
Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris, France)
2017 ¿Lustre de cereal en el magdaleniense? Programa experimental y resultados V International Congress of Experimental Archaeology
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain)
2015 Análisis traceológico de un conjunto de raspadores de la Peña de Estebanvela IV Congreso Internacional de Arqueología Experimental
Museo de la Evolución Humana (Burgos, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/10 - Current Comportamientos tecnológicos al final del Paleolítico superior en el NE de Iberia
Co-supervisor
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2022/09 - 2023/06 The retouch assemblage of the level 20M from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (SE, Prepyrenees)
Co-supervisor of Laia Soldado
 Degree of Archaeology (Degree)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2022/09 - 2023/06 The core-reduction sequences of the level 20M from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (SE Prepyrenees)
Co-supervisor of Haizea Irastorza Otaegui
 Degree of Archaeology (Degree)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Co-direction on the excavation at the Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes, Spain) Coordination, logistics, training and scientific responsible (2018 - 2025)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2017/07 - Current Open day in the archaeological site of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (2017/07)
Other (Co-organisor)
 CEPAP-UAB, Spain
2025/09/03 - 2025/09/06 Conference Organisation for the 31st Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) (2025/09/03 - 2025/09/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia
2022/07/24 - 2022/07/24 Presentation in the Museo de Lleida of the first engraved tile of the Prepyrenees in Cova Gran de Santa Linya (2022 - 2022)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 CEPAP-UAB, Spain
2021/08/01 - 2021/08/28 Co-direction of the excavation at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Roca dels Bous (Sant Llorenç de Montgai, Spain) Coordination and co-direction. (2021/08 - 2021/08)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2021/07/13 - 2021/07/13 Presentation of the human remains of Linya: the Woman of the Noguera region, in Santa Linya village (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 CEPAP-UAB, Spain

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/12/15 - Current Citizenship Science Awareness day for respiratory disseases for the Marató TV3.
Other
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2024/12/13 - Current Workshop - Scientific publication models beyond transformative agreements
REBIUM-Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias, Spain
2024/12/09 - Current Training - COS - Open Scholarship Training “Open Science Framework"
Center for Open Science, United States
2024/12/02 - Current Workshop - Integration and Welcome Services – What Works and the Benefits of Collaborating with Local Service Providers Integration and Welcome Services – What Works and the Benefits of Collaborating with Local Service Providers
2024/11/20 - Current Seminar - Tools for communicating science: the several lives of video abstract Ferramentas para comunicar ciência: as várias vidas do vídeo abstract
Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo, Portugal
2024/05/20 - Current Seminar - Preventing sexual harssment on the basis of sex Preventing sexual harssment on the basis of sex
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2024 - Current Excavation at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Gruta da Companheira (Portimão, Portugal)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2024 - Current Seminar - Safeguarding Mental Health in the Fieldwork Environment: Practical Methods That Work Safeguarding Mental Health in the Fieldwork Environment: Practical Methods That Work
Society for American Archaeology, United States
2024 - Current Workshop - Preventing gender violence at university Preventing gender violence at university
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2014 - Current Excavations at Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes, Spain)
Other
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2013/08/01 - Current Excavation at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Roca dels Bous (Sant Llorenç de Montgai, Spain) Lithic analyst, Scientific mentoring and training.
Other
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2023/12/12 - 2023/12/15 Training in Frontier Archaeology - Systematic synthesis for prehistoric data and literature
Workshop
 Systematic synthesis for prehistoric data and literature
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023/06/06 - 2023/06/06 Workshop - Science and Public Policy: how to build bridges?
Workshop
 Science and Public Policy: how to build bridges?
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/02 Archaeological survey in Alentejo region (Portugal)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Seminar: PhD researchers Round Table in Prehistoric Archaeology organized by PhD Association of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Role: Speaker
Round table
 International research projects and scientific journals
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2023 - 2023 Training in Frontier Archaeology - Dating in Archaeology. Introduction to geochronology and Bayesian age modelling
Workshop
 Training in frontier Archaeology (TIFA): Dating in Archaeology. Introduction to geochronology and Bayesian age modelling
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2021/11/14 Excavation at the Early Stone Age site Frida Leakey Korongo (FLK West)
Other
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2020/06/07 - 2020/06/08 Trainer in the program ARGO, aimed at enhance conection between high-school and universities.
Meeting
 Program ARGÓ. Url: https://www.uab.cat/web/programa-argo-1345714880943.html
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2020 - 2020 Infografías 2.0
Seminar
 Infografías 2.0
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019 - 2019 Dissemination of Science
Workshop
 Dissemination of Science
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019 - 2019 Critical Thinking
Seminar
 Critical Thinking
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019 - 2019 Research papers
Seminar
 Research papers
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018/11 - 2018/11 The Technology of flaked knapping and its use in the Prehistory
Workshop
 The Technology of flaked knapping and its use in the Prehistory. Place: Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC). Duration: 8h
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, Spain
2018/11 - 2018/11 Radiometric calibration using Oxcal
Seminar
 Radiometric calibration using Oxcal.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2018 ESRI (Tools in ArcMap and ArcGIS)
Workshop
 ESRI (Tools in ArcMap and ArcGIS)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2018 ESRI (ArcMap Desktop and Maps)
Workshop
 ESRI (ArcMap Desktop and Maps)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2013/09/01 - 2017/09/20 Excavation at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Navalmaíllo rockshelter (Pinilla del Valle).
Other
Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
2017/06/15 - 2017/07/01 Excavation at the Lower Palaeolithic site of TD4 in Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2016/06/01 - 2016/06/16 Excavation at the Late Upper Palaeolithic site of Molí del Salt (Vimbodí i Poblet, Spain)
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) , Spain
2012/08/01 - 2014/08/30 Excavation at the Lower Palaeolithic site of La Caune de l'Arago (Tautavel, France)
Musée de Préhistoire de Tautavel, France
2014/06/15 - 2014/06/30 Excavation at the Upper Palaeolithic site of La Boja Rockshelter (Mula, Spain)
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
2013/07/01 - 2013/07/30 Excavation at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Cueva del Ángel, (Lucena, Spain)
Musée de Préhistoire de Tautavel, France

Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/08 Jury of the Master Dissertation of Ana Bonet entitled "Análisis tecnológico de los niveles N12 y N14 del yacimiento Roca dels Bous: Acercamiento a los sistemas de talla durante el Paleolítico medio final en el Prepirenaico."
Thesis Member
 Ana Magdalena Bonnet Sancho (Master)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - Current NPG Heritage Science Nature
2024 - Current Journal of Human Evolution Elsevier
2022 - 2022 Journal of Field Archaeology (00934690) Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
2022 - 2022 Journal of Lithic Studies University of Edinburg

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - Current Member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
2023 - Current Member of the Associació Recerca i Difusió del Patrimoni Històric (ARDPH)
2018 - Current Member of the Union Internationale de Science Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)
2023 - 2024 Member of the Society for American Archaeology

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/11 - Current Member of the Outreach Committee of the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)
Member
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Scientific collaborator of the Associació Recerca i Difusió del Patrimoni Històric Associació Recerca i Difusió del Patrimoni Històric, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015/06 - Current Training courses on: Palaeolithic Archaeology; Fieldwork Methodology; Lithic technology; Refittings; Archaeo-stratigraphy; Neanderthals; Modern Humans CEPAP-UAB, Spain
2023/02 - 2023/05 2023 - Anàlisi dels Artefactes. Artifacts analysis (Degree of Archaeology 3rd year) Archaeology (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2022 - 2022 2022 - Prehistòria I: Origens Humans , Prehistory I: Human origins (Degree of Archaeology 1st year) Prehistory I: Human origins (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2021 - 2021 2021 - Anàlisi dels Artefactes. Artifacts analysis (Degree of Archaeology 3rd year) Artifact analysis (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2020 - 2020 2020 - Anàlisi dels Artefactes. Artifacts analysis (Degree of Archaeology 3rd year) Artifact analysis (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019 - 2019 2019 - Prehistòria I Història Antiga. Prehistory and Ancient History (Degree of Humanities, 2nd year) Prehistory and Ancient History (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019 - 2019 2019 - Anàlisi dels Artefactes. Artifacts analysis (Degree of Archaeology 3rd year) Artifact Analysis (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2018 2018 - Seminari de Métodes i Técniques de camp en Arqueologia Prehistòrica– Fieldwork methods and techniques in Prehistoric Archaeology (Seminar) (Degree of Archaeology, 3rd year) Fieldwork methods and techniques in Prehistoric Archaeology (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2018 2018 - Anàlisi dels Artefactes. Artifacts analysis (Degree of Archaeology 3rd year) Artifacts analysis (Graduado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024 - Current Expert listed as a potential evaluator for the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI)
Evaluator
 Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain
2023/12/01 - Current International reviewer of the PhD dissertation of Dr.Ana Álvarez Fernández
Evaluator
 Universidad de Burgos, Spain
2023/09/08 - Current Evaluation committee of the Master Dissertation of Ana Bonet entitled "Análisis tecnológico de los niveles N12 y N14 del yacimiento Roca dels Bous: Acercamiento a los sistemas de talla durante el Paleolítico medio final en el Prepirenaico."
Specialist
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2018 Naciodigital Investigadors de la UAB demanen protegir de l'escalada la Cova Gran a Santa Linya

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/07 - Current Balaguer Televisió - Noticies de la comarca Finalitza la campanya d’excavació a la Cova Gran de Santa Linya

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024 - Current Technical behaviours at the end of the Upper Paleolithic in NE Iberia. Ferran Castellón Castellví
2021 - 2023 Retouched tools and the technical behaviour of Late Upper Paleolithic hunter gatherers. Laia Soldado
2021 - 2023 Core reduction sequences and the technical behaviour in Late Upper Paleolithic contexts in iberia. Haizea Irastorza Otaegui
2019 - 2021 Lithic analysis and refittings in Upper Palaeolithic Ferrán Castellón
2018 - 2021 Lithic assemblages from the Late Upper Paleolithic Álvaro Ibañez Encinas

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Reviewer of NPH-Heritage Science (Nature)
2024 - Current Reviewer of the Journal of Human Evolution
2021 - Current Reviewer of the Journal of Field Archaeology
2021 - Current Reviewer of the Journal of Lithic Studies

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/02/27 - 2022/03/03 Archaeological survey in Alentejo region (Portugal) Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2021/10 - 2021/11 Scientific expedition in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzaia) in the frame of the ERC-Advanced Grandt: Biogeographic and cultural adaptations of early humans during the first intercontinental dispersals lead by Prof. Ignacio de la Torre Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2018 - 2019 Archaeological survey in Gobi-Altai region (Mongolia) Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
2018/08/13 - 2018/09/30 Scientific expedition in Gobi-Altai region (Central Asia) under the scope of the project "Mongolian Cave and Paleolake Project". Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie, Germany
2014 - 2015 Archaeological survey in Sierras marginales de Totana (Spain) Universidad de Murcia, Spain
2014 - 2015 Archaeological survey in la Sierra de las Moreras (Mazarrón, Spain) Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 Research Excellence postdoctoral grant Juan de la Cierva (1st selected candidate) Mark: 99/100
España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
2022 Doctoral thesis awarded with the higher distinction: Excellent Cum Laude with Honors
2022 Postdoctoral grant Margarita Salas (International modality) (2nd selected candidate) Mark: 98/100
2017 Excellence Predoctoral Scholarship for the Formation of University Lecturing (FPU-MECD)
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain
2017 Master thesis awarded with the higher distinction: Excellent with Honors. (Mark 10/10)
2015 Final Dissertation. Degree of History (Mark 9.9/10)
Universidad de Murcia, Spain