Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Carlos Lorenzo Merino

Office: 4.17

carlos.lorenzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Phone: 977559732

ASSISTANT LECTURER

Research lines:

Participation in investigation projects (last 10 years):     

2000-2003 Geology, geochronology and Paleobiology of the Sierra de Atapuerca sites. Principal investigator: Juan Luis Arsuaga. MCYT nº BXX2000-1258-C03-02

2004-2006 Geology, geochronology and Paleobiology of the Sierra de Atapuerca sites II. Principal investigator: Juan Luis Arsuaga. MCYT nº BOS-2003-08938-C03-01

2004-2006 Ecology, biology and social behaviuor during Pleistocene and Holocene in Sierra de Atapuerca. Principal investigator: Eudald Carbonell. MCYT nº BOS-2003-08938-C03-03

2006-2009 Geology, geochronology and Paleobiology of the Sierra de Atapuerca sites III. Principal investigator: Juan Luis Arsuaga. MICINN nº CGL2006-13532-C03-02

2006-2009 Ecosocial behaviour of the Sierra deAtapuerca hominids during Quaternary. Principal investigator: Eudald Carbonell MICINN nº CGL2006-13532-C03-01

2010-2011 Archaeology of human misgrations during the Pleistocene in Argelia: adaptation and population dynamics. Principal investigator: Carlos Lorenzo & Abdelkader Derradji.  Juan

Luis Arsuaga. AECID A/027209/09.

2010-2012 Geology, geochronology and Paleobiology of the Sierra de Atapuerca sites IV. Principal investigator: Juan Luis Arsuaga. MINECO nº CGL2006-13532-C03-02

2010-2012 Ecosocial behaviour of the Sierra deAtapuerca hominids during Quaternary II Principal investigator: Eudald Carbonell MINECO nº CGL2006-13532-C03-01

Articles in SCI magazines (last 10 years):

Arsuaga, J.L., Villaverde, V., Quam, R., Martínez, I., Carretero, J.M., Lorenzo, C., Gracia, A., 2007. New Neandertals remains from Cova Negra (Valencia, Spain). J. hum. Evol. 52, 31-58.

Bonmatí, A., Arsuaga, J.L., Lorenzo, C., 2008. Revisiting the Developmental Stage and Age-at-Death of the ''Mrs. Ples'' (Sts 5) and Sts 14 Specimens from Sterkfontein (South Africa): Do They Belong to the Same Individual? Anatomical Record 291, 1707-1722.

Bonmatí, A., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Arsuaga, J.L., Carretero, J.M., Gracia, A., Martínez, I., Lorenzo, C., Bérmudez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., 2010. Middle Pleistocene lower back and pelvis from an aged human individual from the Sima de los Huesos site, Spain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 18386-18391.

Carbonell, E., Cáceres, I., Lozano, M., Saladié, P., Rosell, J., Lorenzo, C., Vallverdú, J., Huguet, R., Canals, A., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., 2010. Cultural cannibalism as a paleoeconomic system in the European Lower Pleistocene: the case of level TD6 of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Curr. Anthrop. 51, 539-549.

Carretero, J.M., Rodríguez, L., García-González, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Lorenzo, C., Bonmatí, A., Gracia, A., Martínez, I., Quam, R., 2012. Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain). J. hum. Evol. 62, 242-255.

García-González, R., Carretero, J.M., Rodríguez, L., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Arsuaga, J.L., Castro, J.M.B.d., Carbonell, E., Martínez, I., Lorenzo, C., 2009. Étude analytique d'une clavicule complète de subadulte d'Homo antecessor (site de Gran Dolina, Sierra d'Atapuerca, Burgos, Espagne). L'Anthropologie 113, 222-232.

Gómez-Olivencia, A., Carretero, J.M., Lorenzo, C., Arsuaga, J.L., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., 2010. The costal skeleton of Homo antecessor: preliminary results. J. hum. Evol. 59, 620-640.

Gracia, A., Arsuaga, J.L., Martínez, I., Lorenzo, C., Carretero, J.M., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Carbonell, E., 2009. Craniosynostosis in the Middle Pleistocene human Cranium 14 from the Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 6573-6578.

Gracia, A., Martínez-Lage, J., Arsuaga, J.-L., Martínez, I., Lorenzo, C., Pérez-Espejo, M.-Á., 2010. The earliest evidence of true lambdoid craniosynostosis: the case of "Benjamina", a Homo heidelbergensis child. Child's Nervous System 26, 723-727.

Lorenzo, C., Navazo, M., Díez, J.C., Sesé, C., Arceredillo, D., Jordá Pardo, J.F., 2012. New human fossil remains to the last neanderthals in Central Spain. J. hum. Evol. 62, 720-725.

Martínez, I., Quam, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Lorenzo, C., Gracia, A., Carretero, J.M., Rosa, M., Jarabo, P., 2009. Approche paléontologique de l'évolution du langage: un état des lieux. L'Anthropologie 113, 255-264.

Martínez, I., Quam, R., Lorenzo, C., Arsuaga, J.L., Gracia, A., Rosa, M., Jarabo, P., 2005. Auditory capacities in Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sierra de Atapuerca. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 126, 146.

Martínez-Navarro, B., Palmqvist, P., Shabel, A.B., Pérez-Claros, J.A., Lorenzo, C., Claret, A., 2008. Reply to Gibert et al. (2008) on the supposed human phalanx from Cueva Victoria (Cartagena, Spain). J. hum. Evol. 54, 157-161.

Mosquera, M., Llorente, M., Riba, D., Estebaranz, F., González-Brao, M., Lorenzo, C., Sanmartí, N., Toll, M., Carbonell, E., Feliu, O., 2007. Ethological study of manual laterality in naturalistic housed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from the Mona Foundation Sanctuary (Girona, Spain). Laterality 12, 19-30.

Pablos, A., Lorenzo, C., Martínez, I., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Martinón-Torres, M., Carbonell, E., Arsuaga, J.L., 2012. New foot remains from the Gran Dolina-TD6 Early Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). J. hum. Evol. 63, 610-623.