Curriculum Vitae

SÁNCHEZ-BANDERA, C., FAGOAGA, A., BLAIN, H.-A., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., BLANCO-LAPAZ, Á., GALÁN, J., MOYA-COSTA, R., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., RODRÍGUEZ-ÁLVAREZ, X. P. & HUGUET, R. (2025): Paleoecological context of Homo aff. erectus (ATE7-1) at Sima del Elefante (late Early Pleistocene, Atapuerca, Spain) inferred from the herpetofaunal assemblage. – Journal of Human Evolution 209: 103772.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103772

RODRÍGUEZ-ALMAGRO, M., ARRIOLABENGOA, M., VILLALBA DE ALVARADO, M., ARCEREDILLO, D., GALÁN, J., FERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA, M., VAN DER MADE, J., ESTEBAN, J. J., ARSUAGA, J. L., RIOS-GARAIZAR, J., SALA, N. & GÓMEZ-OLIVENCIA, A. (2025): Paleobiological and Taphonomic Analysis of a Site with Cold-Adapted Fauna in Iberia: Baio (Zestoa, Gipuzkoa, Northern Iberian Peninsula). – Geobios 88-89: 205-217 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.05.008.

HUGUET, R., RODRÍGUEZ-ÁLVAREZ, X. P., MARTINÓN-TORRES, M., VALLVERDÚ, J., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., LOZANO, M., TERRADILLOS-BERNAL, M., EXPÓSITO, I., OLLÉ, A., SANTOS, E., SALADIÉ, P., LOMBERA-HERMIDA, A. de, MORENO-RIBAS, E., MARTÍN-FRANCÉS, L., ALLUÉ, E., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., VAN DER MADE, J., GALÁN, J., BLAIN, H.-A., CÁCERES, I., RODRÍGUEZ-HIDALGO, A., BARGALLÓ, A., MOSQUERA, M., PARÉS, J. M., MARÍN, J., PINEDA, A., LORDKIPANIDZE, D., MARGVESLASHVILI, A., ARSUAGA, J. L., CARBONELL, E. & BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO, J. M. (2025): The earliest human face of Western Europe. – Nature 640 (8059): 707-713 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08681-0.

DOMÍNGUEZ-GARCÍA, A. C., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., GALÁN, J. & CUENCA-BESCÓS, G. (2024): Palaeoclimatic analysis of Quaternary terrestrial small mammal assemblages from the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 655: 112532.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112532

GALÁN, J., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., & SEVILLA, P. (2024): The Quaternary record of fossil bats in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands: Palaeobiogeographical changes and palaeoenvironmental implications. –  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 646: 112243.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112243

LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., PIÑERO, P., AGUSTÍ, J., FURIÓ, M., GALÁN, J., MONCUNILL-SOLÉ, B., RUIZ-SÁNCHEZ, F. J., BLAIN, H.-A., SANZ, M. & DAURA, J. (2024): Chronological context, species occurrence, and environmental remarks on the Gelasian site Pedrera del Corral d’en Bruach (Barcelona, Spain) based on the small-mammal associations. – Historical Biology 36 (3): 657-676 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2180740.

GALÁN, J., BAÑULS-CARDONA, S., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G. & VERGÈS, J. M. (2023): Understanding the biogeography of Western European bats: the latest Pleistocene to Middle Holocene assemblage of El Mirador site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). –  Historical Biology 35 (9): 1686-1700 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2107430.

NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., GALÁN, J., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., GARCÍA-MEDRANO, P. & CÁCERES, I. (2022): A bird assemblage across the MIS 9/8 boundary: The Middle Pleistocene of Galería (Atapuerca). – Quaternary Science Reviews 293: 107708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107708

GALÁN, J., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C. & BARTOLOMÉ, M. (2022): The tale of an ice-preserved Alpine Long-Eared Bat in the Pyrenees. – Journal of Bat Research & Conservation 15 (1): 69-71.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.15.1.2022.08

NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., GALÁN, J., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., & HUGUET, R. (2021): Birds from Sima Del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain: palaeoecological implications in the oldest human bearing levels of the Iberian Peninsula.  – Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127 (2): 453-484.
Open access: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/16027

GÓMEZ-OLIVENCIA, A., ARLEGUI, M., ARCEREDILLO, D., DELSON, E., SANCHIS, A., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., FERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA, M., VILLALBA DE ALVARADO, M., GALÁN, J., PABLOS, A., RODRÍGUEZ-HIDALGO, A., LÓPEZ-HORGUE, M. A., RODRÍGUEZ-ALMAGRO, M., MARTÍNEZ-PILLADO, V., RIOS-GARAIZAR, J. & VAN DER MADE, J. (2020): The Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) paleontological collection: New insights for the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Western Pyrenees. – Quaternary International 566-567: 113-140 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.005.

GALÁN, J., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M. & CUENCA-BESCÓS, G. (2019): Did humans disturb bats? Exploring the hominin-chiropter interactions in the Sierra de Atapuerca sites (early to Middle Pleistocene, Spain). – Quaternary Science Reviews 226: 106018 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106018.

GALÁN, J., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., MOYA-COSTA, R., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M. & CUENCA-BESCÓS, G. (2019): Fossil bat assemblages as palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic indicators: A case study in the Lower to Middle Pleistocene Gran Dolina sequence of Sierra de Atapuerca, Northern Spain. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 535: 109365 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109365.

GALÁN, J., NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., V. SAUQUÉ V., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G. & LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M. (2019): Cranial biometrics of the Iberian Myotis myotis/Myotis blythii Complex: New Data for studying the Fossil Record. – Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26 (3): 333-344 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9427-z.

NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C., CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., SAUQUÉ, V. & GALÁN, J. (2016): Avian remains from the Upper Pleistocene (MIS3) site of Aguilón P-7, south of the Ebro River, Spain. – Historical Biology 28 (6): 774-786 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2015.1028928.

CUENCA-BESCÓS, G., BLAIN, H.-A., ROFES, J., LOZANO-FERNÁNDEZ, I., LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, J. M., DUVAL, M., GALÁN, J. & NÚÑEZ-LAHUERTA, C. (2015): Comparing two different Early Pleistocene microfaunal sequences from the caves of Atapuerca, Sima del Elefante and Gran Dolina (Spain): Biochronological implications and significance of the Jaramillo subchron. – Quaternary International 389: 148-158 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.059.