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Archaeological and Geological Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
El Mehdi Sehasseh
Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine
2
Emily Y. Hallett
Loyola University Chicago
3
Abel Moclán
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4
Sara Daffara
University of Ferrara
5
Camille Jéquier
University of Ferrara
6
Pablo Aparicio-Resco
Patrimonio Nacional
7
Diego Lombao
Instituto de Historia
8
Eslem Ben Arous
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Verónica Fernández‐Navarro
Universidad de Cantabria
10
A. Hoffmann
Unknown

Rising Stars Papers

1
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal
Nature|2025
24 cit.
2
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago
Nature|2025
17 cit.
3
Deep learning identification of anthropogenic modifications on a carnivore remain suggests use of hyena pelts by Neanderthals in the Navalmaíllo rock shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Spain)
Quaternary Science Reviews|2024
11 cit.
4
Exploring the utility of Geometric Morphometrics to analyse prehistoric hand stencils
Scientific Reports|2024
9 cit.
5
A Critical Inventory and Associated Chronology of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa
Journal of Open Archaeology Data|2024
7 cit.
6
Beyond Large-Shaped Tools: Technological Innovations and Continuities at the Late Early Pleistocene Assemblage of El Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain)
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology|2024
6 cit.
7
Decoding Palaeolithic Hand Stencils: Age and Sex Identification Through Geometric Morphometrics
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory|2025
4 cit.
8
Extending the ESR and OSL dating comparison on coastal dune deposits from the Wilderness-Knysna area (South Africa)
Quaternary Geochronology|2024
3 cit.
9
Ontogeny and sexual dimorphism in the human hands through a <scp>2D</scp> geometric morphometrics approach
American Journal of Biological Anthropology|2024
3 cit.
10
Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach
Quaternary Environments and Humans|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Fabio Santaniello
University of Trento
2
Manuel Pérez-Ripoll
Universitat de València
3
Ricardo Graña‐Montes
Universitat de València
4
Aitor Burguet-Coca
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
5
Liliana Carmen Rossetti
Academia Nacional de Medicina
6
Anna Rodríguez
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
7
Laine Clark Balzan
University of Freiburg
8
Ralph Davidovits
Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Quentin
9
Ana Neira-Campos
Universidad de León
10
Adelphine Bonneau
Université de Sherbrooke

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
An overview of the Mesolithic in the northwest Atlantic and inland area of the Iberian Peninsula
Quaternary International|2023
7 cit.
2
Maritime-oriented foragers during the Late Pleistocene on the eastern costa del sol (Southeast Iberia): Cueva Victoria (Málaga, Spain)
Heliyon|2022
6 cit.
3
An integrated approach to reconstruct the role of the heat treatment within the reduction sequence of chert artefacts: The case of the early Neolithic site of Lugo di Grezzana (north‐eastern Italy)
Archaeometry|2023
3 cit.
4
Mise à jour des recherches sur les chasseurs-cueilleurs côtiers dans le Sud-Est de la péninsule ibérique durant le Magdalénien : les restes archéofauniques d’origine marine
Paléo|2023
2 cit.
5
Caracterización de las prácticas ganaderas del yacimiento de Niuet (l’Alqueria d’Asnar, Alicante) en el contexto de los asentamientos del IV al III milenio a. C. en el este de la península ibérica
Lucentum|2025
1 cit.
6
Introduction to the Acta IMEKO special issue on the ‘IMEKO TC4 international conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural heritage’
ACTA IMEKO|2022
0 cit.
7
¡Noo! embarrazo
ZOO! Investigación en Diseño y Comunicación Visual|2022
0 cit.
8
Left Ventricular Assist Device Pump Obstruction Reduces Native Heart Efficiency
Bioengineering|2023
0 cit.
9
Deux perles frit-core du cimetière de Carbon-Blanc, Aquitaine, XVIes.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2024
0 cit.
10
Laure Dussubieux and Heather Walder (eds.) The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads: Technology, Chronology and Exchange.
Beads (Ottawa. Online)/Beads|2024
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Philipp Gunz
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2
Eudald Carbonell
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
3
Marina Mosquera
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
4
Joào Zilhão
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
5
Alistair Pike
University of Southampton
6
Christopher D. Standish
National Oceanography Centre
7
Alfredo Pérez‐González
Museo de San Isidro
8
Lawrence Guy Straus
Universidad de Cantabria
9
Roberto Risch
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
10
Valentín Villaverde Bonilla
Universitat de València

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
Nature|2017
1.3k cit.
2
Advances in Geometric Morphometrics
Evolutionary Biology|2009
1.3k cit.
3
Semilandmarks: a method for quantifying curves and surfaces
Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA)|2013
851 cit.
4
Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2010
670 cit.
5
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art
Science|2018
638 cit.
6
A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans
Science|1997
630 cit.
7
The first hominin of Europe
Nature|2008
612 cit.
8
U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain
Science|2012
570 cit.
9
Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos
Science|2014
528 cit.
10
Principles for the virtual reconstruction of hominin crania
Journal of Human Evolution|2009
486 cit.

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