Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras (born 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish paleoanthropologist and author known for his work in the Atapuerca Archaeological Site.He obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is professor in the Paleontology Department of the [http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/fgeo/ Faculty of Geological Sciences].
As a child he already showed a great interest in prehistory after reading ''The Quest for Fire'' and visiting a dig in nearby Bilbao.
Arsuaga is a visiting professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University College London and since 1982 he has been a member of the Research Team investigating Pleistocene deposits in the Atapuerca Mountains (Province of Burgos, Spain). He has been a co-director since 1991 with José María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell Roura of the Atapuerca Team, which was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in "Scientific and Technical Research" category and the Castilla León Prize in "Social Sciences and Humanities" category, both in 1997.
The finds at Atapuerca have shed new light on the first humans in Europe. This contrasts with the secretive atmosphere surrounding the digs to near Orce, in southern Spain, which has yielded tools indicating human presence that predate the finds at Atapuerca. In 2013, Arsuaga co-authored a paper which reported the finding of the oldest human (H. ''heidelbergensis'') DNA ever, dating back 400,000 years. The mitochondrial DNA that stemmed from a fossil found in a cave in Sima de los Huesos had similarities to mitochondrial genomes previously found in the extinct Denisovans in Siberia.
A member of the Musée de l'Homme from Paris, of the International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology, he is vice-president of the Commission of Human Paleontology and Paleoecology of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). He has been a lecturer at the universities of London, Cambridge, Zurich, Rome, Arizona, Philadelphia, Berkeley, New York, Tel Aviv, among others.
He authored and/or published several scientific publications in ''Nature'', ''Science'', ''Journal of Archaeological Science'', ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'', and ''Journal of Human Evolution''. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Feranec, R., García García, Nuria, Díez, J.C., Arsuaga, Juan LuisGet access
Published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2010)
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4by Laplana, César, Sevilla García, Paloma, Blainc, Hugues-Alexandre, Arriaza, Mari Carmen, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Pérez González, Alfredo, Baquedano, EnriqueGet access
Published in Comptes Rendus Palevol (2016)
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5by Rodríguez Varela, Rodríguez, García García, Nuria, Nores, Carlos, Álvarez-Lao, Diego J., Barnett, Ross, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Valdiosera, CristinaGet access
Published in Journal of Zoology (2016)
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7Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNAby Valdiosera, Cristina, García, Nuria, Dalén, Love, Smith, Colin, Kahlke, Ralf-Dietrich, Lidén, Kerstin, Angerbjörn, Anders, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Götherström, AndersGet access
Published in Biology Letters (2006)
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8by Villalba de Alvarado, Mónica, Collado Giraldo, Hipólito, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bello Rodrigo, José Ramón, Heteren, Anneke H., Gómez‐Olivencia, AsierGet access
Published in Boreas (2021)
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9Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNAby Valdiosera, Cristina, García, Nuria, Dalén, Love, Smith, Colin, Kahlke, Ralf-Dietrich, Lidén, Kerstin, Angerbjörn, Anders, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Götherström, AndersGet access
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10by Villalba de Alvarado, Mónica, Collado Giraldo, Hipolito, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bello Rodrigo, José Ramon, van Heteren, Anneke H., Gómez-Olivencia, AsierGet access
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11by Villalba de Alvarado, Mónica, Collado Giraldo, Hipolito, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bello Rodrigo, José Ramon, van Heteren, Anneke H., Gómez-Olivencia, AsierGet access
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14by Dabney, Jesse, Knapp, Michael, Glocke, Isabelle, Gansauge, Marie-Theres, Weihmann, Antje, Nickel, Birgit, Valdiosera, Cristina, García, Nuria, Pääbo, Svante, Arsuaga, Juan-Luis, Meyer, MatthiasGet access
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
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