Miguel Caparrós

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle · Department of Prehistory

Q&A on the modes of evolution in the study of human origins.

Our protocol combines Maximum Parsimony and Phylogenetic Networks approaches to understand the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary processes of hominin species that might have shared inheritance from multiple ancestors. By addressing the questions of pattern and process in human phylogeny, the protocol can be used to clarify the taxonomic d...

We present a methodological phylogenetic reconstruction approach combining Maximum Parsimony and Phylogenetic Networks methods for the study of human evolution applied to phenotypic craniodental characters of 22 hominin species. The approach consists in selecting and validating a tree-like most parsimonious scenario out of several parsimony runs ba...

La découverte d’une mandibule néandertalienne dans la grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya en1983, fut à l’origine de l’extraordinaire recherche pluridisciplinaire engagée par Cecilio Barroso-Ruíz et Henry de Lumley et menée par plusieurs équipes espagnoles et françaises, appartenant à différentes universités et institutions scientifiques.

The Cueva del Angel (Lucena, Spain) is an open-air archaeological site with a sedimentary sequence remnant of a collapsed rock shelter which was part of a still active karst complex. The lithic assemblage consists essentially of abundant retouched tools including 46 identified handaxes along with non-modified flakes, and is associated with faunal r...

Two views prevail concerning the significance of H. heidelbergensis in Middle Pleistocene human evolution. H. heidelbergensis sensu stricto refers to a European chronospecies of H. neanderthalensis while H. heidelbergensis sensu lato is considered to be an Afro-European species ancestral to modern humans and Neandertals. Here, we test the phylogene...

The timing of Neanderthal disappearance and the extent to which they overlapped with the earliest incoming anatomically modern humans (AMHs) in Eurasia are key questions in palaeoanthropology. Determining the spatiotemporal relationship between the two populations is crucial if we are to understand the processes, timing and reasons leading to the d...

This paper proposes a novel approach to study the interactions of Neanderthals and carnivores in the cave of Zafarraya by comparing the lithic archaeological and faunal records with a statistical path analysis, taking into consideration the ecology of the main carnivore predators and large herbivore prey foraging in the surroundings of the cave. Th...

It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated radiocarbon date ranges). In contrast, to the north of the valley the Mousterian disappears shortly before the Proto-Aurignacian appears at ca. 42 ka calBP. The latter is...

que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacionar con las asociaciones faunísticas de Europa de finales del Pleistoceno Medio a principios del Pleistoceno Superior. El conjunto lítico de la cueva del Ángel parece encajar dentro de la diversidad regional de una bien desarrollada industria no-Levallois del Achelense Final. Una es...

This paper proposes a novel approach to study the interactions of Neanderthals and carnivores in the cave of Zafarraya by comparing the lithic archaeological and faunal records with a statistical path analysis, taking into consideration the ecology of the main carnivore predators and large herbivore prey foraging in the surroundings of the cave. Th...

que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacionar con las asociaciones faunísticas de Europa de finales del Pleistoceno Medio a principios del Pleistoceno Superior. El conjunto lítico de la cueva del Ángel parece encajar dentro de la diversidad regional de una bien desarrollada industria no-Levallois del Achelense Final. Una es...

BARROSO RUIZ Cecilio, Daniel BOTELLA ORTEGA, Miguel CAPARROS, Anne Marie MOIGNE, Vincenzo CELIBERTI, Antonio MONCLOVA BOHORQUEZ, Luisa PINEDA CABELLO, Guadalupe MONGE GOMEZ, Agnès TESTU, Deborah BARSKY, Olivier NOTTER, José Antonio RIQUELME CANTAL, Manuel POZO RODRIGUEZ, María Isabel CARRETERO LEON, Samir KHATIB, Thibaud SAOS, Sophie GREGOIRE, Salv...

El sitio arqueológico de la cueva del Ángel es una secuencia sedimentaria al aire libre, resultante del derrumbe de una cueva y parte de un complejo kárstico. La asociación faunística, dominada por équidos, grandes bóvidos y cérvidos, ha sido objeto de intensas acciones antrópicas que reflejan la depredación selectiva. La fauna se puede correlacion...

The Cueva del Angel archaeological site is an open-air sedimentary sequence, remnant of a collapsed cave and part of a karst complex. The faunal assemblage dominated by Equus ferus, large bovids and cervids has been subjected to intense anthropic actions reflecting selective predation. The fauna may be correlated with European faunistic association...

BARROSO R. C., ORTEGA BOTELLA D., MOIGNE A.-M., RIQUELME CANTAL J.-A., CAPARROS M., CELIBERTI V., NOTTER O., BARSKY D., ASTIER N., GREGOIRE S ., BOULBES N., GARCIA SOLANO J.- A. , POSO RODRIGUEZ M., CARRETERO LEON M.-I., MONGE GOMEZ G., TESTU A., SAOS T., KHATIB S., BERTIN L., FILOUX A., MOUTOSSAMY J., MILIZIA C., HANQUET C., ROSSONI E ., BAILON S....

In this paper we offer a preview of the excavations of a Palaeolithic site in the southern Iberian Peninsula: the Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba). Since 1995, year in which its archaeological potential was discovered, there have been four excavation campaigns and there is now a 5- meter deep stratigraphic sequence. Together with the on-site excav...