Publications

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Anna Rufà, João Cascalheira (2024). Alternating carnivore and Neanderthal activities at Escoural Cave: insights from the taphonomic and machine learning analysis of leporid remains. Alternating carnivore and Neanderthal activities at Escoural Cave: insights from the taphonomic and machine learning analysis of leporid remains.

Joana Belmiro, Xavier Terradas, João Cascalheira (2023). Creating frames of reference for chert exploitation during the Late Pleistocene in Southwesternmost Iberia. Creating frames of reference for chert exploitation during the Late Pleistocene in Southwesternmost Iberia.

Alvise Barbieri, Frederico Regala, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho (2022). The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal). The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal).

Patrick Rüther, Immanuel Husic, Pernille Bagsgaard, Kristian Gregersen, Pernille Pantmann, Milena Carvalho, Ricardo Godinho, Lukas Friedl, João Cascalheira, Alberto Taurozzi, Marie Jorkov, Michael Benedetti, Jonathan Haws, Nuno Bicho, Frido Welker, Enrico Cappellini, Jesper Olsen (2022). SPIN enables high throughput species identification of archaeological bone by proteomics. SPIN enables high throughput species identification of archaeological bone by proteomics.

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Emily Hallinan, Omry Barzilai, Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, Yuri Demidenko, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Erella Hovers, Anthony Marks, Maya Oron, Jeffrey Rose (2021). No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave. No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave.

João Cascalheira, Célia Gonçalves, Daniela Maio (2021). The spatial patterning of Middle Palaeolithic human settlement in westernmost Iberia. The spatial patterning of Middle Palaeolithic human settlement in westernmost Iberia.

Rowan McLaughlin, Magdalena Goméz-Puche, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Javier Fernández-López de Pablo (2020). Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia. Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia.

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Jonathan Haws, Michael Benedetti, Sahra Talamo, Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, M. Grace Ellis, Milena Carvalho, Lukas Friedl, Telmo Pereira, Brandon Zinsious (2020). The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia. The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia.

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João Cascalheira, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, Javier Alcolea-González, Maria de Andrés-Herrero, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Joan Emili Aura Tortosa, Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso (2020). Paleoenvironments and human adaptations during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula: A review. Paleoenvironments and human adaptations during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula: A review.

João Cascalheira (2019). Territoriality and the organization of technology during the Last Glacial Maximum in southwestern Europe. Territoriality and the organization of technology during the Last Glacial Maximum in southwestern Europe.

João Cascalheira, Andrea Picin (2019). Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology.

Isabell Schmidt, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Gerd-Christian Weniger (2019). Human adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum. Human adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum.

Pedro Horta, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho (2019). The Role of Lithic Bipolar Technology in Western Iberia’s Upper Paleolithic: the Case of Vale Boi (Southern Portugal). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2(2).