Dr. Ana Belén Marín Arroyo Tel: +44 (0)1223 764719 E-mail: abm38@cam.ac.uk www.zooarqueologia.es POSITIONS: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Research Associate of Darwin College FUNDING: Basque Government (Spain) SUPERVISOR: Dr. Robert Foley KEYWORDS: Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, Palaeolithic, Palaeoeconomy and Palaeoenvironment, Human Evolution Regional: Western and Eastern Europe, Near East.

CURRENT PROJECTS: 
· Identifying distinctive adaptive skills between Neanderthals and modern humans in two European refugia: the Balkans and the Iberian Peninsula. 
· Taphonomical analysis of the Mount Carmel faunas (Tabun, Skhul and El Wad) and its implication in human evolution.
· Collaboration in: Later Quaternary archaeology and human palaeontology of the Kerio River and its environments, southwest Turkana, Kenya. Co-directors: M. Lahr & R. Foley

RESEARCH INTEREST

My interest in the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition concerns the causes of the progressive replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans groups in Europe. This is still a controversial issue and a field of wide interest, as it involves questions about human evolution and the very future of our species. Climate change, resources shortage, unsustainable growth, species competition, overexploitation, technology ownership are terms usually heard nowadays and also applied to this period of human prehistory.

The subsistence strategies are a central basis of my study, as they are the reflection of each species survivorship skill in the context of biodiversity and evolution. The aim of my current project is to characterize the distinctive economic strategies carried out by both species in two of the main Neanderthal refugia during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition, the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkans.

MEDIA

Evidence of monk seal presence in the Biscay Bay, Spain during the middle Holocene. [read more]

BOOKS

Marin, A.B. 2010. Arqueozoología en el Cantábrico Oriental durante la transición Pleistoceno/Holoceno. La Cueva del Mirón. Preface by Lawrence G. Straus. University of Cantabria Press. Santander. ISBN: 9788486116217.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Marín, A.B. 2011. Palaeolithic Human Subsistence in Mount Carmel (Israel). A Taphonomic assessment of Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic Faunal Remains from Tabun, Skhul and el‐Wad. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI: 10.1002/oa.1241

Marín, A.B., González Morales, M. & Estévez, J. 2011. Palaeoclimatic inference of the mid-Holocene record of the monk seal (Monachus monachus) in the Cantabrian Coast, Spain. Proceedings of the Geologist´Association 122, 113-124.

Marín, A.B. 2009. The human use of the montane zone of Cantabrian Spain during the Late Glacial: faunal evidence from El Mirón Cave. Journal of Anthropological Research 65 (1), 69-102.

Marín,A.B. 2009. The use of Optimal Foraging Theory to estimate Late Glacial site catchment areas from a central place. The case of eastern Cantabria, Spain. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28, 27-36.

Marín,A.B. 2009. A practical comparative study of the available analytic techniques for skeletal part profile interpretation at El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain). Archaeofauna 18, 79-98.

Marín,A.B. 2009. Assessing what lies beneath the spatial distribution of a zooarchaeological record. The use of GIS and spatial correlations at El Mirón Cave (Spain). Archaeometry 51 (3), 506-524.

Marín,A.B. & González Morales, M.R. 2009. Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores-recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II. Trabajos de Prehistoria 66 (1), 47-74.

Marín,A.B., Fosse, P. & Vigne, J-D. 2009. Probable evidences of bone accumulation by Pleistocene bearded vulture at the archaeological site of El Mirón Cave (Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 284-296.

Margalida, A., Sánchez-Zapata, J. A., Eguía, S., Marín,A.B., Hernández, F. & Bautista, J. 2009. Assessing the diet of breeding bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) in mid-20th century in Spain: A comparison to recent data and implications for conservation. European Journal of Wildlife Research 55 (4), 443-447.

Marín,A.B. 2008. Patrones de movilidad y control del territorio en el Cantábrico Oriental durante el Tardiglacial. Trabajos de Prehistoria 65 (1), 29-45.

Marín,A.B., Landete, D., Vidal, G., Seva, R., González Morales, M. & Straus, L.G. 2008. Archaeological implications of human-derived manganese coatings: a study of blackened bones in El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain. Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (3), 801-813.

Marín,A. B. & González Morales, M.R. 2007. La Fragua Cave, a seasonal hunting camp in the lower Asón valley (Cantabria, Spain) at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Anthropozoologica 42 (1), 61-84.

Marín,A.B. 2004. Análisis Arqueozoológico, Tafonómico y de Distribución espacial de la fauna de mamíferos de la Cueva de La Fragua (Santoña, Cantabria). Ediciones TGD. Santander. 246pp. ISBN: 8493379239.