Books by Arturo de Lombera-Hermida
by Anne-Marie Pétrequin, Pierre Pétrequin, Alison Sheridan, Lutz Klassen, Michel G L Errera, Serge Cassen, Yvan PAILLER, Ramon Fábregas Valcarce, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, François GILIGNY, Carlos Rodríguez Rellán, Florian Klimscha, Mark Edmonds, Tsoni Tsonev, Massimo Ghedini, Elisabetta Starnini, M. Prieto-martínez, Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Christophe Le Pennec, and Pilar Prieto M
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To the West of Spanish Cantabria: the Palaeolithic settlement of Galicia, 2011, ISBN 9781407308609, págs. 123-132, 2011
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La depresión de Monforte de Lemos (Lugo, Galicia). Yacimientos paleolíticos inéditos en el noroeste peninsular, 2007
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Being at the Western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of ... more Being at the Western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from Northern Portugal and Southern Spain dated around 4,000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal Sub-Saharan mitogenome of most likely West or West-Central African origin, never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of Sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but an admixture event recognizable at the population level. We interpret this result as evidence of an early migration process from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula through a Western route, possibly across the Strait of Gibraltar
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Across the millennia spanning from the first peopling of NW Iberia to the last tracts of the Bron... more Across the millennia spanning from the first peopling of NW Iberia to the last tracts of the Bronze Age, the human groups have adapted themselves to the environment. Moreover, they were affected by the shifting temperatures, the changes of the vegetal cover and other modifications of the landscape and far from being a passive subject, they often played a significant role in those environmental dynamics.
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Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture, 2015
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Cova Eirós is located in the province of Lugo, north-western Iberia. The cave site contains a num... more Cova Eirós is located in the province of Lugo, north-western Iberia. The cave site contains a number of Palaeolithic engravings—narrow and shallow grooves—that are dispersed on the walls of the cave. As direct contact with the panel would be extremely harmful for the rock surface, we have decided to use 3D methods to record the motifs. Thus, we applied different techniques based on dense photogrammetry, for example the Radiance Scaling, in order to accomplish a better visualization of the motifs, removing part of the subjectivity that the previous recording methods presented and avoiding direct contact with the panel.
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Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2018
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019
Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of ... more Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here, we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain dated around 4000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal sub-Saharan mitogenome of most probably West or West-Central African origin, to our knowledge never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but a...
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Radiocarbon, 2017
At Cova Eirós, we discovered 13 panels with paintings and engravings that stylistically point to ... more At Cova Eirós, we discovered 13 panels with paintings and engravings that stylistically point to the final moments of the Upper Paleolithic. Scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy were used to identify charcoal as black pigment. Although contamination from medieval fires inside the cave complicates the dating of these pictographs, analyses of unpainted rock backgrounds allowed calculation corrections for contaminated samples. We used plasma oxidation and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to directly radiocarbon (14C) date two charcoal paintings—confirming that the images are more than 9000 yr old. As these paintings superimpose engravings, these14C dates also provide a minimum age for an engraving at Cova Eirós that is stylistically Final Magdalenian/Epipaleolithic. This is the first known evidence of Paleolithic cave art in Galicia of NW Iberia.
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Quaternary International, 2016
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An outlook of the results of JADE II project on the presence of Alpine axes or their imitations i... more An outlook of the results of JADE II project on the presence of Alpine axes or their imitations in the Iberian Peninsula
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Andavira, 2009
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La asociación de un registro lítico achelense con unas dataciones del Pleistoceno
superior lo convirtió en uno de los yacimientos más controvertidos. Por ello, son numerosas
las intervenciones arqueológicas y revisiones que intentaron comprender la problemática del
yacimiento desde un punto de vista geomorfológico, sedimentario y arqueológico. En este
capítulo juntamos toda la información espacial referente a dichas intervenciones y ofrecemos
los datos de las intervenciones llevadas a cabo en la década de los 90 y de la revisión de su
industria lítica del Locus I, conjuntos que parecían sugerir la existencia de varias ocupaciones
ampliamente diferenciadas desde el punto de vista temporal en Budiño. Los datos estratigráficos,
tafonómicos y tecnológicos corroboran que gran parte de estas industrias se encuentran
en posición derivada y que, actualmente, todos los conjuntos parecen corresponderse con
ocupaciones desarrolladas en la segunda mitad del Pleistoceno medio.
of aspect, slope, average height, least-cost paths, visibility and proximity to river courses and routes. This spatial and diachronic approach lead to the identification of the evolution and variability of the settlement patterns of the Paleolithic sites ascribed to the Mode 2, Mode 3 and Mode 4.
une autre lecture des assemblages. À Orgnac 3, les omportements tant lithiques que de subsistance se modifient dans le temps selon des rythmes différents et affectent l’approvisionnement en matières premières, les modes
de débitage, l’outillage, la gestion de la biodiversité animale, le traitement des carcasses et les types d’occupation. Ces modifications ne sont pas en relation avec le changement climatique qui s’amorce au sommet de la séquence (début MIS 8, niveau 1). Ce n’est que vers 280 000 ans (sommet de la séquence d’Orgnac 3 et base de la séquence de Payre, fin MIS 8/ début MIS 7) que les stratégies de subsistance et lithiques obéissent à des
règles communes que l’on peut qualifier clairement de type paléolithique moyen.