R2 boosting your postdoctoral career in Prehistory at IPHES

Project Information

R2STAIR

Grant agreement ID: 101034349

DOI

10.3030/101034349

Project closed

EC signature date 19 March 2021

Start date 1 May 2021

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 1 176 960,00

EU contribution

€ 588 480,00

Coordinated by

FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIO SOCIAL
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Sicily and the process of Neolithisation: a review of the archaeobotanical data

Author(s): Claudia Speciale
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 185-194, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00963-9

The Establishment of the Agricultural Landscape of Central Sicily Between the Middle Neolithic and the Beginning of the Iron Age

Author(s): Claudia Speciale, Enrico Giannitrapani, Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, Laura Sadori, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout
Published in: Human Ecology, Issue 52, 2024, Page(s) 229-253, ISSN 0300-7839
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-024-00496-3

Ungulates and carnivores from the late MIS-5 Neanderthal occupation of Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, João Zilhão
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2813-432X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2025.1564495

Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation: a pilot-study focusing on bone surface modification and breakage patterns

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Anna Rufà, Marina Igreja
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2813-432X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2024.1411853

Human-bird interaction in last Interglacial Iberia: A combined approach using skeletal part analysis, bone surface modification, bird ethology and ethnography

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Carlos Pimenta, João Zilhão
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 49, 2025, Page(s) 104023, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104023

Mixed farming of rice and millets became the primary subsistence strategy 6400 years ago in the western Huanghuai Plain of Central China: New macrofossil evidence from Shigu

Author(s): Yuzhang Yang, Miaomiao Yang, Binggui Sun, Weiya Li, Zhijie Cheng, Ling Yao, Wanli Lan, Xin Zhou, Juzhong Zhang
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01821-5

When smoke is in the air: An experimental approach to characterise fuel emissions on past humans dwellings

Author(s): A. Robledo, A. Burguet-Coca, M. Berihuete-Azorín, S. Bianco, J. Pallarès, S. Cito, B. Garay-Palacios, E. Allué
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 61, 2025, Page(s) 104944, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104944

Small mammal assemblages used to reconstruct past environmental conditions of Neanderthal habitats in southern Europe

Author(s): Loïc Lebreton, Juan Manuel López-García, Claudio Berto
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 66, 2026, Page(s) 105340, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105340

Stage or Sub-Stage: The Contribution of Small Mammals to the Characterization of Middle Pleistocene Local Climate Variation

Author(s): Loïc Lebreton, Juan Manuel López-García
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 54, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/quat6040054

Lithic technology and potential functions of quartz flakes used by early farmers in Central China

Author(s): Weiya Li, Deborah Barsky, Wanli Lan, Juzhong Zhang
Published in: npj Heritage Science, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 3059-3220
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s40494-025-02023-z

NOVA PLANTA DO CASTELO VELHO DE SAFARA: INTEGRAÇÃO DE DADOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS COM TOPOGRAFIA DE ALTA RESOLUÇÃO DERIVADA DE LEVANTAMENTO DRONE-LIDAR

Author(s): Rui Monge Soares, Mariana Nabais, Tiago Do Pereiro, Rita Dias, João Hipólito, João Fonte, Luís Gonçalves Seco, Fernando Menéndez-Marsh, António Neves
Published in: Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, 2023, Page(s) 66-75, ISSN 2182-8660
Publisher: APEQ Associacao Portuguesa para o Estudo do Quaternario
DOI: 10.30893/eq.v0i23.217

Experimental analysis of roasted and raw turtle butchery and implications for early human cognition and behaviour

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Ruth Blasco, Iratxe Boneta, David Gonçalves, Marina Igreja, Valentina Lubrano, Anna Rufà
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-31738-z

Early Middle Palaeolithic Occupations Dated to MIS 7 at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, Southeast France)

Author(s): Marie-Hélène Moncel, Erwan Vaissié, Juan Marin, Paul Fernandes, Ana Abrunhosa, Bruce Hardy, Maïlys Richard, Concepción Torres, Javier Baena
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Issue 8, 2026, ISSN 2520-8217
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41982-025-00221-6

The seasonal diet and variation in the prey selection of the little owl (Athene noctua) in the Northeast of Iran

Author(s): Fallahi Akhlamad, N., Tabatabaei Yazdi, F., Khani, A., Rey-Rodríguez, I.
Published in: Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, Issue Volume 7 (1): 55-70, 2023, ISSN 2588-3526
Publisher: JWB
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7348991

Neanderthal brown crab recipes: A combined approach using experimental, archaeological and ethnographic evidence

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Rodrigo Portero, João Zilhão
Published in: Historical Biology, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 1487-1495, ISSN 0891-2963
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2220005

Last interglacial in western Europe: 20 years of multidisciplinary research on the Eemian (MIS 5e) calcareous tufa sequence at Caours (Somme basin, France) – a review

Author(s): Pierre Antoine, Nicole Limondin‐Lozouet, Julie Dabkowski, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, Bassam Ghaleb, Jean‐Louis Reyss, Patrick Auguste, Noemie Sévêque, Guillaume Jamet, Marie‐Claude Jolly‐Saad, Agnès Gauthier, Loïc Lebreton, Jean‐Luc Locht
Published in: Boreas, Issue 53, 2025, Page(s) 297-346, ISSN 0300-9483
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12654

Composition and manufacture of a rare gold example of the Mesopotamian “tree of life” iconography and coeval jewellery in southwestern Iberian Peninsula

Author(s): Pedro Valério, Jorge Estevão Correia, Vitoria Corregidor, Rui J. C. Silva, Rui M. Soares, Rui Ramos, Pedro Albuquerque, Luís Miguel G. Cabrita, Lucia Miguel, Mariana Nabais, Luís Campos Paulo, António M. Monge Soares, Maria Fátima Araújo
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01801-9

Geophagy in Gibraltar Barbary macaques is a primate tradition anthropogenically induced

Author(s): J. Frater, M. Nicourt, F. Landi, B. Maxwell, J. Thiodet, E. Mestrallet, S. J. Warr, M. Pizarro, J. E. Fa, S. Lemoine
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-44607-0

Site settlement patterns during MIS 3 in the Southeast of France. The lithic assemblages of two phases of occupation (levels 4.1 and 4.2) at the Abri du Maras

Author(s): Marie-Hélène Moncel, Pierre Guillemot, M. Gema Chacón, Ana Abrunhosa, Mailys Richard, Paul Fernandes, Bruce Hardy, Ethel Allué, Veronique Pois
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3958130/v1

Waziers, le Bas-Terroir : contribution des petits vertébrés à la reconstitution de l’environnement local

Author(s): Loïc Lebreton, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Salvador Bailon
Published in: Quaternaire, Issue vol. 34/1, 2026, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 1142-2904
Publisher: Maison de la Geology
DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.17681

Waziers le Bas-Terroir (plaine de la Scarpe, nord de la France) : synthèse des études sur les observations 2011-2015 et mise en évidence d’un enregistrement sédimentaire continu de la fin du saalien (SIM 6) à l’optimum eemien (SIM 5e).

Author(s): Laurent Deschodt, David Hérisson, Pierre Antoine, Jean‑Luc Locht, Agnès Gauthier, Nicole Limondin‑Lozouet, Patrick Auguste, Jean‑Jacques Bahain, Bassam Ghaleb, Chloé Maréchal, Luc Vallin, Loïc Lebreton, Benjamin Audiard, Guillaume Hulin, Guillaume Jamet, Qingfeng Shao, Christophe Falguères, Christophe Lécuyer, Romain Amiot, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Salvador Bailon, Bertrand Masson, Sylvie
Published in: Quaternaire, Issue vol. 34/1, 2026, Page(s) 45‑63-45‑63, ISSN 1142-2904
Publisher: Maison de la Geology
DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.17705

A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach to site formation processes at the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, France

Author(s): Dominique Todisco, Carolina Mallol, Christelle Lahaye, Guillaume Guérin, François Bachellerie, Eugène Morin, Brad Gravina, Amélie Challier, Cédric Beauval, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Céline Colange, Laure Dayet, Damien Flas, François Lacrampe-Cuyaubère, Loïc Lebreton, Josserand Marot, Bruno Maureille, Alexandre Michel, Xavier Muth, Carole Nehme, Solange Rigaud, Elise Tartar, Nicolas Teyssandi
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 315, 2023, Page(s) 108218, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108218

Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals

Author(s): Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Alexander K. Agadzhanyan, Katarzyna Baca, Nicholas J. Conard, Helen Fewlass, Thomas Filek, Michał Golubiński, Ivan Horáček, Monika V. Knul, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maria Krokhaleva, Loïc Lebreton, Anna Lemanik, Lutz C. Maul, Doris Nagel, Pierre Noiret, Jérome Primault, Leonid Rekovets, Sara E. Rhodes, Aurélien Royer, Natalia V. Serdyuk, Marie Soressi, John R. St
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 290, 2023, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2238

Formation processes, fire use, and patterns of human occupation across the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 5a-5b) of Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal)

Author(s): Diego E. Angelucci, Mariana Nabais, João Zilhão
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18, 2023, Page(s) e0292075, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292075

Ancient <scp>DNA</scp> reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period

Author(s): Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Anna Lemanik, Sandra Bañuls‐Cardona, Nicholas J. Conard, Gloria Cuenca‐Bescós, Emmanuel Desclaux, Helen Fewlass, Jesus T. Garcia, Tereza Hadravova, Gerald Heckel, Ivan Horáček, Monika Vlasta Knul, Loïc Lebreton, Juan Manuel López‐García, Elisa Luzi, Zoran Marković, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, Xabier Murelaga, Pierre Noiret, Alexandru Petculescu, Vasil P
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 50, 2023, Page(s) 183-196, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14521

The exploitation of crabs by last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: The evidence from Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Catherine Dupont, João Zilhão
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2023, ISSN 2813-432X
Publisher: frontiersin.org
DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1097815

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

Author(s): Youri van den Hurk, Fanny Sikström, Luc Amkreutz, Madeleine Bleasdale, Aurélia Borvon, Brice Ephrem, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Hannah M. B. Gibbs, Leif Jonsson, Alexander Lehouck, Jose Martínez Cedeira, Stefan Meng, Rui Monge, Marta Moreno, Mariana Nabais, Carlos Nores, José Antonio Pis-Millán, Ian Riddler, Ulrich Schmölcke, Martin Segschneider, Camilla Speller, Maria Vretemark, Stephen
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230741

The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara

Author(s): Mariana Nabais, Rui Soares, Youri van den Hurk
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0310215, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310215

Conference proceedings (1)

Shifting Procurement Strategies: Exploring Non-Flint Materials in Flint-Based Assemblages of Abri du Maras Between MIS 3 And MIS 7

Author(s): Abrunhosa, Ana; Chacon Navarro, Maria Gema; Moncel, Marie-helene
Published in: Issue 4, 2024
Publisher: Zenod
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14710716