Eudald Carbonell i Roura (born 17 February 1953,

Ribes de Freser Ribes de Freser () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Ripollès in Girona, Catalonia. It is situated at the confluence of the Freser, Rigard and Segadell rivers, north of Ripoll. It is known for its mineral water, paper manufact ...

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) is a Catalan archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist. Educated in

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and

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, he holds a PhD in

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ear ...

of the

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...

from

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

(1986), and one in

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from the

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(1988). In June 2015, he left the direction of the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social to be professor at the University of Rovira and Virgili in

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. He also serves as co-director of the excavations at the Archaeological Site of Atapuerca, together with

José María Bermúdez de Castro José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

and

Juan Luis Arsuaga Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras (born 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish paleoanthropologist and author known for his work in the Atapuerca Archaeological Site. He obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Compl ...

. His findings include the discovery of ''

Homo antecessor ''Homo antecessor'' (Latin "pioneer man") is an Extinction, extinct species of archaic human recorded in the Spanish Archaeological Site of Atapuerca, Sierra de Atapuerca, a productive archaeological site, from 1.2 to 0.8 million years ago durin ...

'', and well-preserved remains of ''

Homo heidelbergensis ''Homo heidelbergensis'' (also ''H. sapiens heidelbergensis''), sometimes called Heidelbergs, is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed during the Middle Pleistocene. It was subsumed as a subspecies of ''H. erectus'' in ...

''.

Publications

Scientific journals

* Carbonell, E., M. Mosquera, A. Ollé, X. P. Rodríguez Álvarez, M. Sahnouni, R. Sala, and J. M. Vergès. 2001. Structure morphotechnique de l'industrie lithique du Pléistocène inférieur et moyen d'Atapuerca (Burgos, Espagne). L'Anthropologie 105:259-280 * Aguirre, E. and E. Carbonell (2001). "Early human expansions on Eurasia: The Atapuerca evidence." Quaternary International 75: 11-8. * Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E & Arsuaga, J.L. (ed) (1999). Gran Dolina Site: TD6 Aurora Stratum (Burgos, Spain). J. of Human Evolution, 37: 309-700 * Arsuaga, J.L., Lorenzo, C., Carretero, J.M., Gracia, A., Martínez, I., García, N., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M. & Carbonell, E. (1999). A complete human pelvis from the Middle Pleistocene of Spain. Nature 399, 255-258. * Carbonell, E., M. Mosquera, et al. (1999). "Out of Africa: The Dispersal of the Earliest Technical Systems Reconsidered." J. of Anthropol. Archaeol. 18: 119-136. * Carbonell, E. & Vaquero, M. (1998). Behavioral Complexity and Biocultural Change in Europe Around Forty Thousand Years Ago. J. of Anthropol. Res. 54, 373-397. * Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Arsuaga, J.L., Carbonell, E., Rosas, A., Martínez, I. & Mosquera, M. (1997). A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans. Science 276, 1392-5. * Carbonell, E. & Vaquero, M., eds. (1996). The Last Neandertals - The First Anatomically Modern Humans. Cultural Change and Human Evolution: The Crisis at 40 Ka BP: Ed. Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona. * Carbonell, E., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Arsuaga, J.L., Díez, J.C., Rosas, A., Cuenca-Bescos, G., Sala, R., Mosquera, M. & Rodriguez, X.P. (1995). Lower Pleistocene Hominids and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain). Science 269, 826-832. * Castro-Curel, Z. & Carbonell, E. (1995). Wood Pseudomorphs From Level I at Abric Romaní, Barcelona, Spain. J. of Field Archaeol. 22, 376-84. * Carbonell, E., Giralt, S. & Vaquero, M. (1994). Abric Romani (Capellades, Barcelone, Espagne): Une importante séquence anthropisée du Pléistocene Supérieur. Bull. de la Soc. Préhist. Franç. 91, 47-55. * Carbonell, E. & Rodriguez, X.P. (1994). Early Middle Pleistocene deposits and artefacts in the Gran Dolina site (TD4) of the 'Sierra de Atapuerca' (Burgos, Spain). J. of Human Evol. 26, 291-311. * Carbonell, E. Guilbaud, M. & Mora R. (1984), “Élaboration d’un système d’analyse pour l’étude des éclats bruts de débitage,” Dialektikê. Cahiers de typologie analytique, 10, pp. 22–31.

References

External links

Fundación Atapuerca

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social(IPHES)
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