Joan Daura

TL;DR: It is revealed that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia, and how the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean is document.

TL;DR: The results indicate that retrieving ancient genomes from similarly warm Mediterranean environments such as the Near East is technically feasible and suggest that both Cardial and LBK peoples derived from a common ancient population located in or around the Balkan Peninsula.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that, in Atlantic Iberia's coastal settings, Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals exploited marine resources at a scale on par with the modern human–associated Middle Stone Age of southern Africa, and shell middens rich in the remains of mollusks, crabs, and fish, as well as terrestrial food items are revealed at the Figueira Brava site.

TL;DR: A recently discovered cranium from the Aroeira cave in Portugal is described, which is the westernmost Middle Pleistocene cranium of Europe and is one of the earliest fossils from this region associated with Acheulean tools.

TL;DR: Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in the area, as well as a few artifacts.