The roots and evolution of the culture-of-death. A taphonomic research of the European Paleolithic record

Project Information

DEATHREVOL

Grant agreement ID: 949330

DOI

10.3030/949330

EC signature date 14 August 2020

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 494 486,00

EU contribution

€ 1 494 486,00

Coordinated by

CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION SOBRE LA EVOLUCION HUMANA
Spain

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Publications

Conference proceedings (6)

Flintknapping and measuring: A protocol for evaluating quality in knappable raw materials through quantitative values of fragility and homogeneity

Author(s): Felipe Cuartero; Javier Llamazares Gonzalez; Jesus Rodriguez; Maria Isabel Sarró; Marina Martinez de Pinillos; Mohamed Sahnouni
Published in: Flintknapping and measuring: A protocol for evaluating quality in knappable raw materials through quantitative values of fragility and homogeneity, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8431756

New potential case of Paleolithic interpersonal violence: First taphonomic approach from Qafzeh-25, Israel

Author(s): Pantoja-Pérez, Ana; Martín-Francés, Laura; May, Hila; Hershkovitz, Israel; Sala, Nohemi
Published in: PaleoAnthropology, Issue 10, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 368
Publisher: Paleoanthropology Society AND European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2023.iss2.1093

DEATHREVOL: searching for the roots of the culture of death

Author(s): Sala, Nohemi; Pantoja-Pérez, Ana; Rodríguez-Almagro, Manuel; Téllez, Edgar; Calvo Simal, Cecilia; Arsuaga, Juan Luis
Published in: PaleoAnthropology, Issue 2, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 574, ISSN 1545-0031
Publisher: Paleoanthropology Society AND European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2022.iss2.809

Testing the limits of AI and machine learning for quantitative taphonomy. Skeletal-part representation as a proxy for the origins of human deposition

Author(s): Jonas Grabbe, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Ana Serrano-Mamolar, Antonio Canepa-Oneto and Nohemi Sala
Published in: PaleoAnthropology, Issue 2, 2025, 2025
Publisher: Paleoanthropology Society and European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2025.iss2.4032

Life and death in the Middle Paleolithic of Qafzeh, Israel through comprehensive taphonomic study of hominin remains

Author(s): Sala, Nohemi; Pantoja-Pérez, Ana; Martín-Francés, L; May, H; Hershkovitz, I.
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 2024, 183 (S77), 2024, Page(s) 157
Publisher: Wiley

New cranial and postcranial remains from the Neandertal specimens from Neander Valley

Author(s): Ralf W. Schmitz, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Nohemi Sala
Published in: PaleoAnthropology, Issue 2, 2024, 2024, Page(s) 496
Publisher: Paleoanthropology Society and European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2024.iss2

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals

Author(s): Kuldeep D. More, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Jaime Lira Garrido, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, Emmanuel Discamps, Oscar Estrada, Laure Tonasso‐Calvière, Loreleï Chauvey, Gaëtan Tressières, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Morgane Gibert, Horacio Padula, Horacio Chiavazza, Pablo M. Fernández, Nicolás M. Guardia, Caroline Borges, Stéphane Bertani, Juan Contreras‐Mancilla, Diana Allccarima‐Crisóstomo, Migu
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.14112

The Cranium I: Neurocranium

Author(s): Ana Pantoja‐Pérez, Juan‐Luis Arsuaga
Published in: Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, Issue 307, 2025, Page(s) 2278-2324, ISSN 1932-8486
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Palaeobiological and taphonomic analysis of a site hosting a cold-adapted fauna in Iberia: The Baio cave (Zestoa, Gipuzkoa, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Author(s): Manuel Rodríguez-Almagro, Martin Arriolabengoa, Mónica Villalba de Alvarado, Diego Arceredillo, Julia Galán, Mónica Fernández-García, Jan van der Made, José Julián Esteban, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Nohemi Sala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia
Published in: Geobios, Issue 88-89, 2025, Page(s) 205-217, ISSN 0016-6995
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2024.05.008

An experimental approach to the analysis of altered cut marks in archaeological contexts from Geometrics Morphometrics

Author(s): Antonio Pineda; Lloyd A. Courtenay; Edgar Téllez; José Yravedra
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 48, 4, 2023, 2023, ISSN 2352-4103
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103850

Taphonomic skeletal disturbances in the Sima de los Huesos postcranial remains

Author(s): Sala, Nohemi Martínez, Ignacio Lorenzo, Carlos García, Rebeca Carretero, José Miguel Rodríguez, Laura Gómez-Olivencia, Asier Aranburu, Arantza García, Nuria Quam, Rolf Gracia, Ana Ortega, Mª Cruz Arsuaga, Juan Luis
Published in: Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, Issue 2023, 2023, ISSN 1932-8494
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ar.25197

Taphonomic-forensic analysis of the hominin skulls fromthe Sima de los Huesos

Author(s): Sala, Nohemi; Pantoja-Pérez, Ana; Gracia, Ana; Arsuaga, Juan Luis
Published in: Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 1932-8494
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ar.24883

The human remains found in 1967 in Axlor: Still not convincingly Neandertals: A reply to <scp>González‐Urquijo</scp> et al

Author(s): Asier Gómez‐Olivencia; Diego López‐Onaindia; Nohemi Sala; Antoine Balzeau; Ana Pantoja‐Pérez; Ignacio Arganda‐Carreras; Mikel Arlegi; Joseba Rios‐Garaizar; Aida Gómez‐Robles
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 245-251, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24633

Taphonomic study of the cave bears (Ursus cf. deningeri and U. spelaeus) from the Sima I of the El Polvorín cave (Northern Iberian Peninsula)

Author(s): Rodríguez-Almagro, Manuel; Gómez-Olivencia, Asier; Villalba de Alvarado, Mónica; Arsuaga, Juan Luis; Sala, Nohemi
Published in: Quaternary Science Advances, 2024, ISSN 2666-0334
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100171

Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

Author(s): Nohemi Sala, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, Martin Arriolabengoa, Virginia Martínez-Pillado, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Edgar Téllez, Miriam Cubas, Samuel Castillo, Lee J. Arnold, Martina Demuro, Mathieu Duval, Andion Arteaga-Brieba, Javier Llamazares, Juan Ochando, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, María Martín Seijo, Luis Luque, Carmen Alonso-Llamazares, Mikel Arleg
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado3807

How the Sima de los Huesos was won

Author(s): Juan‐Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez, Ana Gracia‐Téllez, José‐Miguel Carretero, Alfonso Esquivel, Nuria García, Carlos Lorenzo, Rolf Quam, Arantza Aramburu, Nohemi Sala, Javier Trueba
Published in: Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, Issue 307, 2025, Page(s) 2225-2245, ISSN 1932-8486
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Subsistence strategies in the early upper Paleolithic of central Iberia: Evidence from Abrigo de la Malia

Author(s): Edgar Téllez, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Manuel Rodríguez-Almagro, Carmen Núñez-Lahuerta, Andion Arteaga-Brieba, Adrián Pablos, Nohemi Sala
Published in: Quaternary Science Advances, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 100297, ISSN 2666-0334
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100297

Virtual assessment of a possible meningioma in a Roman-period cranium

Author(s): Daniel Rodríguez Iglesias, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Pilar Fernández Colón, Adrián Pablos, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, Nohemi Sala
Published in: Virtual Archaeology Review, 2023, ISSN 1989-9947
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de València
DOI: 10.4995/var.2023.19680

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age

Author(s): Jaime Lira Garrido, Gaétan Tressières, Lorelei Chauvey, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Laure Calvière-Tonasso, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, John Southon, Beth Shapiro, Clément Bataille, Julie Birgel, Stefanie Wagner, Naveed Khan, Xuexue Liu, José María Rodanés, Jesús V. Picazo Millán, Josep Giralt, Natàlia Alonso, Isidro Aguilera, Adriano Orsingher, Angela Trentacoste, Xavier Payà, Marta Morán, Ma
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 7098, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62266-z

Nouveaux fossiles néandertaliens et réinterprétation stratigraphique des collections classiques de La-Chaise-de-Vouthon (vallée de La Tardoire, Charente)

Author(s): Diego López-Onaindia, Kim Genuite, Edgar Téllez, Mónica Villalba de Alvarado, Elle Liagre, Laure Thimon, Juliette Hantrais, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Nohemi Sala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Christine Couture-Veschambre
Published in: Bulletins et mémoires de la société d'anthropologie de Paris, Issue 37, 2025, ISSN 0037-8984
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.4000/133oz

Long-term dog consumption during the Holocene at the Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain): case study of the El Portalón de Cueva Mayor site

Author(s): Galindo-Pellicena, María Ángeles; Sala, Nohemi; Gaspar, Ignacio de; Iriarte, Eneko; Blázquez-Orta, Raquel; Arsuaga, Juan Luis; Carretero Díaz, José Miguel; García, Nuria
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 14, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01522-5

Iberian Neandertal fossils: Exploring funerary practices in a paleoclimatic context

Author(s): Nohemi Sala, Edgar Téllez, Andion Arteaga-Brieba, Daniel Rodríguez-Iglesias, Manuel Rodríguez-Almagro, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Jonas Grabbe, Adrián Pablos
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 105316, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105316