Publications

Alvise Barbieri, Javier Sánchez Martínez, Joana Belmiro, Paulo Fernandes, Jovan Galfi, Pedro Horta, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho (2026). Early evidence of earthquake management through mobility and social network adjustments at Vale Boi (SW Iberia). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Joana Belmiro, Nuno Bicho, Xavier Terradas, João Cascalheira (2025). From stone to tool: how raw materials influenced Upper Palaeolithic technology in southwestern Iberia (Vale Boi). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Guillermo Alzate-Casallas, Ana Gomes, Nolan Ferar, Sahra Talamo, Laura Tassoni, João Cascalheira, Alvise Barbieri (2025). Close to sunlight or deep underground? New data to reconstruct site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic Escoural cave (southern Portugal). Quaternary Science Reviews.

Joana Belmiro, Xavier Terradas, Salvador Dominguez-Bella, João Cascalheira (2025). Within and Beyond: Chert Procurement Patterns During The Upper Palaeolithic in Southwesternmost Iberia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Emily Hallinan, João Cascalheira (2025). Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Jeffrey Rose, Yamandu Hilbert, Vitaly Usyk, Michelle Bebber, Amir Beshkani, Brigs Buchanan, João Cascalheira, Dominik Chlachula, Rudolf Dellmour, Metin I. Eren, Roman Garba, Emily Hallinan, Li Li, Robert Walker, Anthony Marks (2025). Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Anna Rufà, João Cascalheira (2024). Alternating carnivore and Neanderthal activities at Escoural Cave: insights from the taphonomic and machine learning analysis of leporid remains. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

Joana Belmiro, Xavier Terradas, João Cascalheira (2023). Creating frames of reference for chert exploitation during the Late Pleistocene in Southwesternmost Iberia. PLOS ONE.

Alvise Barbieri, Frederico Regala, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho (2022). The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal). Archaeological Prospection.

Emily Hallinan, Omry Barzilai, Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, Yuri Demidenko, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Erella Hovers, Anthony Marks, Maya Oron, Jeffrey Rose (2021). No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave. Scientific Reports.

João Cascalheira, Célia Gonçalves, Daniela Maio (2021). The spatial patterning of Middle Palaeolithic human settlement in westernmost Iberia. Journal of Quaternary Science.

Rowan McLaughlin, Magdalena Goméz-Puche, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Javier Fernández-López de Pablo (2020). Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Code Dataset Video DOI

Jonathan Haws, Michael Benedetti, Sahra Talamo, Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, M. Grace Ellis, Milena Carvalho, Lukas Friedl, Telmo Pereira, Brandon Zinsious (2020). The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Code Dataset Project DOI

João Cascalheira, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, Javier Alcolea-González, Maria de Andrés-Herrero, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Joan Emili Aura Tortosa, Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso (2020). Paleoenvironments and human adaptations during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula: A review. Quaternary International.

João Cascalheira (2019). Territoriality and the organization of technology during the Last Glacial Maximum in southwestern Europe. PLOS ONE.

João Cascalheira, Andrea Picin (2019). Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology.

Isabell Schmidt, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Gerd-Christian Weniger (2019). Human adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum. Human adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum.

Pedro Horta, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho (2019). The Role of Lithic Bipolar Technology in Western Iberia’s Upper Paleolithic: the Case of Vale Boi (Southern Portugal). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2(2).