Isidoro Campaña Lozano- PostDoc
- Postdoctoral research at University of Malaga
Isidoro Campaña Lozano
- PostDoc
- Postdoctoral research at University of Malaga
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January 2011 - November 2015
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The “La Mancha” area in central Spain has provided valuable insights into the Paleolithic sequence, particularly within the Upper and Middle Guadiana Basin. This study focuses on recent discoveries at Cueva de los Toriles, emphasizing its importance within the regional archaeological framework. The area’s Quaternary deposits have facilitated the id...
After a road construction in the 1960s, faunal fossils were surface collected by locals at the "Los Villares" house state (Ruidera, Ciudad Real). The study of the fossils showed the presence of cutmarks on some herbivore bones dated around 300-400 ka by a combined ESR-Uranium series approach [1]. A systematic excavation of 10 m 2 was carried out in...
Tras la construcción de una carretera en los años 60 en la finca “Los Villares” (Ruidera, Ciudad Real) se recogieron más de 50 fósiles de fauna en superficie. Su estudio mostró la presencia de marcas de corte en algunos huesos de herbívoros fechados alrededor de 300-400 Kya mediante un enfoque combinado de series ESR-Uranio (García-Martínez et al.,...
The late Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3), which lies in the Guadix-Baza Depression (SE Spain) and is dated to ~ 1.4 Ma, contributes some of the oldest evidence of hominin presence in Western Europe, including a huge tool assemblage of Oldowan tradition, manuports (i.e., unmodified stones used as percussion tools) and a...
The Early Pliocene to late Middle Pleistocene continental sedimentary infillings of the Baza Basin (Guadix-Baza Depression, SE Spain) are worldwide unique by their high stratigraphic completeness and exceptional preservation of their fossil record of terrestrial vertebrates. These sediments were deposited in fluvio-lacustrine environments and prese...
After a road construction in the 1960s, faunal fossils were surface collected by locals at the “Los Villares” house state (Ruidera, Ciudad Real). The study of those fossils showed the presence of cutmarks at some herbivore bones, which were dated in 300-400 Kya by a combined ESR-Uranium series approach. During the 2023 campaign, around 10 m2 of sys...
The late Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3), which lies in the Guadix-Baza Depression (SE Spain) and is dated to ~ 1.4 Ma, contributes some of the oldest evidence of hominin presence in Western Europe, including a huge tool assemblage of Oldowan tradition, manuports (i.e., unmodified stones used as percussion tools) and a...
After a road construction in the 1960s, faunal fossils were surface-collected by locals from a small area in the Los Villares urbanization (Ruidera, Ciudad Real). The study of those fossils [1] concluded that this site could fill a gap of knowledge in an area characterized by a limited Pleistocene fossil and archeological record, dated around MIS 9...
The Early Pleistocene archeological site of Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3) preserves some of the oldest evidence of hominin presence in Western Europe, including a huge assemblage of Oldowan tools and evidence of butchering and marrow processing of large mammal bones. Moreover, there is also evidence of the regular presence of carnivores at the site, includi...
Gran Dolina is a cavity infilled by at least 25 m of Pleistocene sediments divided into 12 lithostratigraphic units and 19 sedimentary facies. These sedimentary facies have been divided into allochthonous facies, defined as sediment inputs from the outside, and autochthonous facies, defined as sediments generated within the karst; but this division...
We present the results of a combined Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and Luminescence dating study for the lowermost stratigraphic unit (TD1) of the palaeoanthropological site of Atapuerca Gran Dolina, Spain. Ten samples collected through the Main Section were dated using either the Multiple Centre (MC) ESR approach or the single-grain thermally tran...
Multiple factors have been proposed to explain the disappearance of Neandertals between ca. 50 and 40 kyr BP. Central to these discussions has been the identification of new techno-cultural complexes that overlap with the period of Neandertal demise in Europe. One such complex is the Châtelperronian, which extends from the Paris Basin to the Northe...
The isotopic composition of hydrogen in authigenic minerals is a useful tool to reconstruct past paleo-environments. Clay minerals are an important component of authigenic minerals in soils and sediments but they usually occur with other compounds that must be eliminated before the analysis, such as organic matter and carbonates. Thus, various "pre...
El río Cañamares se encuentra en la provincia de Ciudad Real, en el este de la región de La Mancha, dentro del régimen hídrico de la cuenca alta del río Guadiana. Esta región se compone de calizas y dolomías mesozoicas apoyadas sobre facies Keuper, que han permitido el desarrollo de ambientes kársticos. En el margen norte del río Cañamares se encue...
En este trabajo se hace una presentación de las investigaciones arqueológicas desarrolladas en el yacimiento de Aranbaltza (Barrika, Bizkaia), uno de los escasos yacimientos paleolíticos al aire libre conservados en la región cantábrica. Su registro es especialmente rico en ocupaciones realizadas por grupos de neandertales, desde finales del Pleist...
Deciphering the origin and depositional history of archaeological and paleontological deposits is fundamental to evaluate artifact and fossil contextualization. We present new rock magnetic data based on the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) that allow the fabric analysis and characterization of depositional modes in cave sediments. This...
The advantages of active massive data capture devices such as LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) in the creation of high-resolution topographic models have been well known for years. They have been widely applied to the documentation of cultural heritage since the beginning of the 21st century. As LiDAR devices, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) sy...
We used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to identify a variety of karstic features in the archaeo-paleontological sites of the Sierra the Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). The aim of this study was to discover the structure of the caves exposed in the 19th century by a railroad trench, specifically their bottom part, which remains covered under the railroad...
The Cueva de Los Toriles belongs to a karstic system found in the southern Iberian plateau. Construction works in the cave (not related to paleontological activities) have allowed for the recovery of fossil remains of macromammals, including two lower molars of a mustelid that are presented in this work. They can be attributed to the species Meles...
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We present the first experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency value for electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of coarse quartz grains, which is used for the evaluation of the internal and external alpha dose rate components. Based on our results, we recommend the use of an a-value of 0.07 ± 0.01 (1σ) for both the Al and Ti centres. Although w...
The present study reports the results of the first direct Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating study of Homo antecessor, the oldest known hominin species identified in Western Europe. The analysis of a tooth (ATD6-92) from TD6 unit of Atapuerca Gran Dolina (Spain) following a “semi non-destructive” procedure provides a final age estimate ranging fr...
A series of hydrofluoric (HF) acid etching experiments were performed on several 50 to 300 µm (nominal sieve opening) quartz and feldspar samples, and average etching thicknesses were subsequently determined from weight loss estimates, following the approach of Bell & Zimmerman (1978). Our results are consistent with previous studies and confirm th...
The so-called “Gran Dolina site” (Atapuerca mountain range, N Spain) is a karstic cavity filled by sediments during the Pleistocene, some of which contain a rich ensemble of archaeological and paleontological records. These sediments have contributed significantly to our understanding of early human dispersal in Europe but, in contrast, older, inte...
En los últimos 15 años, las tecnologías 3D se han convertido en grandes herramientas para la documentación y preservación de registros arqueológicos (Doneus et al., 2005), ya sea para fines divulgativos, didácticos o científicos. El análisis tradicional in-situ de lugares de interés cultural, se ha visto modificado por la posibilidad de obtener rep...
El complejo kárstico multinivel de Ojo Guareña se encuentra localizado en la Cordillera Cantábrica, al norte de la provincia de Burgos. En su tercer nivel se hallan las Galerías de las Huellas, donde se han conservado de manera intacta múltiples rastros de huellas humanas pertenecientes al Paleolítico Superior (Ortega et al., 2013). Estas huellas s...
The Galería de las Huellas site (Burgos, Spain) is located in the third level of the Ojo Guareña Multilevel karstic system, in two passages which floors preserve several tracks of Palaeolithic human footprints. They are preserved on unconsolidated and wet loam sediments, very sensitive to any physical approach to document and study their geometry a...
Gran Dolina is a cavity infill of the Sierra de Atapuerca, containing three important Early and Middle Pleistocene archaeo-paleontological layers, including hominid bones, fauna and lithic remains. Due to the relevance of this site to understand human evolution in Europe, it is essential to define in detail the sedimentary processes and environment...
Gran Dolina is a cavity infilled by at least 25 m of Pleistocene sediments. This sequence contains the TD6 stratigraphic unit, whose records include around 170 hominin bones that have allowed the definition of a new species, Homo antecessor. This fossil accumulation was studied as a single assemblage and interpreted as a succession of several human...
Gran Dolina is a cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) infilled by a 25 m thick sedimentary record, divided into 12 lithostratigraphic units that have been separated into 19 sedimentary facies containing Early and Middle Pleistocene hominin remains. In this paper, an automated image analysis method has been used to study the shape of the sedimentary pa...
The Sierra de Atapuerca is an anticlinal ridge of Mesozoic carbonate rocks on the NW edge of the Iberian
Chain (Northern Spain, Burgos), surrounded by subhorizontal continental sediments of the NE Duero
Cenozoic Basin under endorheic conditions. The shift to exorheic conditions in the Duero Basin lead to the
onset of an episodic downcutting phase a...
Gran Dolina is a cavity infill of the Sierra de Atapuerca, containing three important Early and Middle Pleistocene archaeo-paleontological layers, including hominid bones, fauna and lithic remains. Due to the relevance of this site to understand human evolution in Europe, it is essential to define in detail the sedimentary processes and environment...
En aquest treball se sintetitzen els conceptes i mètodes basics de tres de les ciències més comunes en geoarqueologia, com són la geomorfologia, l’estratigrafia i la sedimentologia. A través d’aquestes ciències es tracta de reconstruir els paisatges i els processos de formació al voltant de les ocupacions humanes del registre arqueològic. Les difer...
Gran Dolina site is one of the most important Pleistocene archaeological sites in Europe. It has three important archaeo-paleontological layers: TD10, TD6 and TD4, where high densities of anthropogenic bones and lithic remains have been found. In this site, a new hominid has been deened, Homo antecessor (Bermúdez de Castro et al. 1997). Gran Dolina...
The Sierra de Atapuerca is an anticlinal ridge of Mesozoic carbonate rocks on the NW edge of the Iberian Chain (Northern Spain, Burgos), surrounded by subhorizontal continental sediments of the NE Duero Cenozoic Basin under endorheic conditions. The shift to exorheic conditions in the Duero Basin lead to the onset of an episodic downcutting phase a...
Ojo Guareña Karstic Complex is one of the biggest interconnected cave systems in Spain of 110 km long. It contains an impressive archaeological record of human activities from Upper Pleistocene, and it was listed in 1970 as Spanish Cultural Heritage. The diversity and variety of passages and sites include living areas cave vestibules, rock art, hum...
E n 2012 se utilizó un escáner láser 3D en las Galerías de las Huellas para conocer con precisión la morfología y distribución de las centena-res de improntas humanas de pies des-calzos que se distribuyen en torno a ambas galerías. Cuando se finalicen las tareas de identificación y restitución se podrá conocer con detalle la identifica-ción de las...
En 2012 se utilizó un escáner láser 3D en las Galerías de las Huellas para conocer con precisión la morfología y distribución de las centenares de improntas humanas de pies descalzos que se distribuyen en torno a ambas galerías. Cuando se finalicen las tareas de identificación y restitución se podrá conocer con detalle la identificación de las huel...
Los resultados aportados por las prospecciones geofísicas llevadas a cabo en complejos kársticos con yacimientos paleolíticos (Ortega et al., 2010; Valois et al., 2010; Bermejo et al., 2010), han puesto de manifiesto la relevancia de este tipo de estudios tanto para el mejor entendimiento de los procesos de formación del yacimiento, como para las e...
