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Introduction
My main research lines and interests are 1) Postglacial history of Mediterranean vegetation; 2) Pollen as biostratigraphic marker; 3) Chronology of Pleistocene plant extinction events; 4)
Pollen analysis applied to fluvial tufas and travertines; 5)
Past distribution of plant taxa through pollen and macrofossil data; 6) Plant refugia areas during the Last Glacial Maximum, 7) Cultural biogeography
Additional affiliations
March 2016 - May 2020
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- - Climatology - Environmental Changes - Physical and Planning - Geomorphology and Soil Sciences
January 2011 - September 2016
October 2009 - June 2010
Education
January 2011 - December 2014
Field of study
- Quaternary palynology, biogeography and climate variability
October 2009 - September 2010
September 2005 - June 2009
Publications
Publications (55)
It is well-known that the Holocene exhibits a millennial-scale climate variability. However, its periodicity, spatio-temporal patterns and underlying processes are not fully deciphered yet. Here we focus on the central and western Mediterranean. We show that recurrent forest declines from the Gulf of Gaeta (central Tyrrhenian Sea) reveal a 1860-yr...
Fluvial tufa located in the Queiles and Val river valleys (Moncayo Natural Park, Iberian Range, NE Iberia), are investigated following morphostratigraphic descriptions, radiocarbon dating and palynological and anthracological analyses. The studied tufa deposits have been chronologically framed within the Early-Mid Holocene (ca. 9500 to 4000 cal yr...
The sedimentological, geochemical and palynological analyses performed in the Conquezuela palaeolake (41°11′ N; 2°33′W; 1124 m a.s.l.) provide a detailed, multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in one of the key areas of inner Iberian Neolithic colonization. Combined with archaeobotanical and archaeological data from well-dated settlements a...
Palynological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses performed on the Villarquemado paleolake sequence (987 m a.s.l, 40°30′N; 1°18′W) reveal the vegetation dynamics and climate variability in continental Iberia over the last 13,500 cal yr BP. The Lateglacial and early Holocene periods are characterized by arid conditions with a stable landscape...
Oral presentation at the Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory (SIMEP) conference, held in Barcelona on 21-23 October 2024, within the Environment and Social Interactions section.
Abstract of the poster presented at the Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory (SIMEP) conference, held in Barcelona on 21-23 October 2024, within the Environment and Social Interactions section.
From 15 to 17 September in Donostia (Gipuzkoa) the first meeting on «plant management and domestication in southweat Asia» was held, organised by the IWGP (International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany) research group, where we presented the line of research that is part of my PhD thesis project: «Mediterranean deciduous oak woodland opening durin...
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.,...
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...
COORDINACIÓN
José S. Carrión
EQUIPO EDITORIAL
José S. Carrión, Manuel Munuera, Juan Ochando, Manuel Casas-Gallego
Secretaria Técnica y Maquetación
Maximiliano Gómez Rodríguez, Santiago Fernández, Manuel Munuera
Trabajo artístico y gráfico
Gabriela Amorós, Victoria Sánchez-Giner, Ariadna Amorós, Manuel Munuera, Manuel Fernández-Díaz, Pedro Pablo...
COORDINACIÓN
José S. Carrión
EQUIPO EDITORIAL
José S. Carrión, Juan Ochando, Manuel Munuera, Manuel Casas-Gallego, Gabriela Amorós
Secretaria Técnica y Maquetación
Maximiliano Gómez Rodríguez, Santiago Fernández, Manuel Munuera
Trabajo artístico
Gabriela Amorós, Victoria Sánchez-Giner, Ariadna Amorós, Manuel Munuera, Manuel Fernández-Díaz, Pedro...
El desarrollo de edificios tobáceos de origen fluvial se asocia a menudo con fases cálidas y húmedas cuaternarias y son comúnmente empleados como indicadores climáticos. En el presente trabajo se estudia el depósito tobáceo fluvial Holoceno del Nogal de El Batán, situado en el valle del río Las Parras (Cordillera Ibérica, NE España), bajo una persp...
Few continental palaeoenvironmental sedimentary sequences from Southern Europe are long enough to span the last interglacial period (Marine Isotopic Stage-MIS 5), the last glacial cycle (MIS 4 to 2) and the Holocene. El Cañizar de Villarquemado (North-Eastern Iberian Peninsula) is an exceptional sedimentary lacustrine sequence spanning the last ca....
This paper reviews the past distribution of Aleppo pine woodlands in the Ebro Basin, Northeastern Iberia, from the Mesolithic to Modern times based on wood charcoal data. The aim is to detail the chronological timing and the drivers explaining the long-term presence of Aleppo pine woodlands and associated thermophilous flora. The available charcoal...
Chronology of tufa deposits in the Val river (Iberian Range, Soria Province): Fluvial tufa build-ups located in the Val river (Ágreda, Soria province) have been investigated. Important tufa terraces crop out from Val spring to 8 km downstream along the river. U/Th ages derived from post-depositional speleothems corroborate previous radiocarbon ages...
Vegetation reconstruction associated to Holocene fluvial tufa build-ups of the Iberian Range): Fluvial tufa build-ups located in the Queiles, Val and Las Parras del Martín river valleys (Iberian Range, NE Iberia), are investigated following radiocarbon dating, palynological and anthracological analyses. The studied tufa deposits have been framed wi...
We present a multidisciplinary dating approach - including radiocarbon, Uranium/Thorium series (U/Th), paleomagnetism, single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), polymineral fine-grain infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) and tephrochronology - used for the development of an age model for the Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (VIL) fo...
The Anthropocene is related to the origin of current landscape configuration, and in terms of vegetation, with the consideration of human action as main forcing of clear, intense and permanent changes through time. In this paper we compile and compare data from palynological sequences, microcharcoal records, archaeological sites and radiocarbon dat...
The cave of Armiña is part of the same karstic system than Atxurra cave, which has an occupation site in the entrance, covering from Gravettian to Late Magdalenian, and numerous evidences of Paleolithic rock-art in the inner part of the cave. The current entrance of Armiña was discovered at the end of XIX century when the road between Markina and L...
RESUMEN En el proyecto CLAM2 se han estudiado las comunidades biológicas actuales y subfósiles de los lagos de Enol y Marboré, así como las secuencias palinológicas y lluvia polínica de ambos sistemas para poder obtener indicadores fiables de cambio global en escalas temporales largas. Los resultados muestran que el lago Enol tiene unos valores de...
Abstract Environmental fluctuations during the Holocene caused important landscape changes in the Central Ebro Basin, which is a very sensitive region due to its semiarid climate, lithology, and continuous human presence. Severe erosion processes hinder palaeoenvironmental and archaeological record preservation. Infills of ephemeral stream valleys...
Abstract Comparison of selected, well-dated, lacustrine, speleothem and terrestrial pollen records spanning the Holocene onset and the Early Holocene (ca. 11.7–8 cal kyrs BP) in the Iberian Peninsula shows large hydrological fluctuations and landscape changes with a complex regional pattern in timing and intensity. Marine pollen records from Albora...
The Ebro Basin constitutes one of the most representative territories in SW Europe for the study of prehistoric societies during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The correlation of palaeoenvironmental and geomorphological proxies obtained from sedimentary records with chronologically well-constrained reference archaeological sites has allowed d...
This paper presents the environmental, climate and vegetation changes reconstructed for the last 14.6 kyr cal BP from the Marbor? Lake sedimentary sequence, the highest altitude record (2612 m a.s.l.) in the Pyrenees studied up to date. We investigate the sensitivity of this high altitude site to vegetational and climate dynamics and altitudinal sh...
Evolution of the Conquezuela palaeolake, located in the eastern margin of the Iberian Peninsula Northern Plateau, has been investigated using multiproxy analyses (sedimentology, XRF geochemistry, palynology) and with a chronological control based on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and AMS techniques. The 10 m-thick sedimentary sequence show...
High-resolution, multi-proxy lake records from Iberian Mediterranean mountains with robust chronologies have allowed the identification of centennial to decadal scale paleohydrological fluctuations during the last 2000 years within the Iberian Peninsula. The dataset illustrates sharp regional gradients and timing differences when compared to climat...
Abstract In this contribution we compile and summarize the available paleo-environmental lacustrine data for the last 20,000 years from the southern Central Pyrenees (from west to east: El Portalet, Tramacastilla, Basa de la Mora, Estanya, Redon, Montcortès and Marcelino lakes) and present a new sequence from mid altitude (Holocene record of Lake E...
The Ebro Basin constitutes one of the most representative territories in SW Europe for the study of prehistoric societies during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The correlation of palaeoenvironmental and geomorphological proxies obtained from sedimentary records with chronologically well-constrained reference archaeological sites has allowed d...
Tufa deposits have proved to be excellent palaeobotanical archives. Commonly, some facies include charcoal remains and detailed leaf imprints constituting extraordinary proxies to develop biogeographic and biostratigraphic aspects (Ollivier et al., 2010; Dabkowski, 2014). By contrast, palynology applied to tufa settings has been poorly developed as...
The Upper Arba de Biel constitutes a small valley in north-eastern Spain where a detailed study of five archaeological sites (Peña-14, Legunova/Rambla, Valcervera and Paco-Pons) has been performed, defining the recurrent prehistoric occupation from the Late Magdalenian until the Chalcolithic. The aim of this study focuses on exploring the main driv...
Holocene tufa deposits of Queiles river in Vozmediano (Soria Province, Iberian Range)): Quaternary fluvial tufa buildings are often associated with warm and humid phases and are commonly used as climate indicators. Queiles Holocene tufa deposits (5.8-4 ka BP) pollen, which appear to be excellent palaeobotanical archives. Pollen and anthracological...
El desarrollo de edificios tobáceos de origen fluvial se asocia a menudo con las fases
cálidas y húmedas durante el Cuaternario y son utilizados comúnmente como indicadores
climáticos. Los depósitos de toba del río Queiles (5,8-4 ka BP) están formados principalmente
por oncoides de tamaño variable y lentejones de marga con restos de carbón vegetal...
Understanding long-term fire ecology is essential for current day interpretation of ecosystem fire responses. However paleoecology of fire is still poorly understood, especially at high-altitude mountain environments, despite the fact that these are fire-sensitive ecosystems and their resilience might be affected by changing fire regimes. We recons...
En diciembre de 2012, se celebraron las primeras Jornadas IPErinas, reunión que permitió compartir al personal del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), muchos de los trabajos de investigación que actualmente se están llevando a cabo por los distintos grupos del centro. Estas Jornadas surgieron de la necesidad de compartir y difundir los principa...
The unique geological framework of the “los Llanos de La Larri”
(Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park) facilitated the genesis of a relevant juxtaglacial
sedimentary record during the last glacial phase in the central Pyrenees. In
this study we conducted a geomorphological and outcrop survey, an electric
tomography study and the definition of the mai...
The unique geological framework of the “los Llanos de La Larri” (Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park) facilitated the genesis of a relevant juxtaglacial sedimentary record during the last glacial phase in the central Pyrenees. In this study we conducted a geomorphological and outcrop survey, an electric tomography study and the definition of the mai...
RESUMEN. El estudio de las propiedades magnéticas y sus variaciones en el tiempo en sondeos lacustres permiten deducir cambios paleoambientales de los últimos milenios. Este estudio presenta una aproximación multiproxy integrando indicadores geoquímicos y sedimentológicos con propiedades magnéticas analiza-das en un sondeo largo (~6 m) del Lago de...
RESUMEN. El estudio de las propiedades magnéticas y sus variaciones en el tiempo en sondeos lacustres permiten deducir cambios paleoambientales de los últimos milenios. Este estudio presenta una aproximación multiproxy integrando indicadores geoquímicos y sedimentológicos con propiedades magnéticas analiza-das en un sondeo largo (~6 m) del Lago de...
El Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (North-eastern Iberian Peninsula) stands as an exceptional palaeoenvironmental record for the last 130 000 years. The preliminary multidisciplinary study carried out so far include pollen and sedimentological analyses, comprising geochemical, X ray fluorescence (XRF), mineralogical, organic and inorganic content...
El Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (North-eastern Iberian
Peninsula) stands as an exceptional palaeoenvironmental record for the last
130 000 years. The preliminary multidisciplinary study carried out so far include
pollen and sedimentological analyses, comprising geochemical, X ray fluorescence
(XRF), mineralogical, organic and inorganic content...
