José Ramos Muñoz is a Spanish
archaeologist
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and
professor
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of
prehistory
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at the
University of Cádiz
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and director of the Revista Atlántica Mediterránica de Prehistoria y Arqueología Social. Ramos is an influential
Spanish-speaking archaeologist with dozens of books and hundreds of published papers. He conducted extensive
fieldwork
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in
Europe
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and
Africa
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. His excavations at the Benzú's Cave, north Africa, with chronologies between 250,000 and 100,000 years
BP,
represents the first evidence of
Mousterian stone industries in Africa.
Selected bibliography
*Ramos, Bernal and Castañeda, ed. 2003. ''El abrigo y cueva de Benzú en la prehistoria de Ceuta''. University of Cádiz.
*Ramos, J. and Bernal, D., ed. 2006. ''El Proyecto Benzú. 250.000 años de historia en la orilla africana del Círculo del Estrecho''.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Spanish archaeologists
Academic staff of the University of Cádiz
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