The scientists of this Program, coordinated by Dr. José María Bermúdez de Castro, carry out research on human fossils (originals and copies) with the aim of obtaining information about the biology of these species and getting data for taxonomic and phylogenetic studies and proposals of evolutionary sceneries.

Group of Dental Anthropology

Group of Paleophisiology and Sociobiology of Hominins

Group of Hominids Paleoneurology

This Programs research is interested in the study of the distribution and abundance of fossil species in relation to biotic and abiotic factors. Studies of biologic community structure and paleoclimatology based on the distribution of species are included here.

Mammal Paleoecology. Macroecology.

This program performs an auto-ecological research, focused on the study of man as a very special kind in their environment. This program addresses issues of: subsistence (opportunism, hunting, taking of carrion, gathering), demography, social organization, sociobiology, lifestyles, territorial models (predation and supply territories), space employment and economic strategies (planning and resources acquisition).

Group of Economic and Spatial Archaeology

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)

Luminescence (thermal, optical, infrared)

Uranium-Series

Cosmogenic nuclides

Archaeomagnetism

Fission track

Facilities

This program undertakes research and consulting in archaeological survey and excavations, in continental and marine-littoral environments, through the techniques of the Earth sciences and under a geoarchaeological viewpoint. The aim is to analyze archaeo-paleontological sites dating from the Upper Miocene to the Holocene and the relations with their natural context, with an accent on site formation processes and the interactions between cultural and environmental factors.

Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentary environments

Soil science, Quaternary paleopedology and micromorphology

Geomorphology and geographic reconstructions

Geoarchaeology of archaeo-palaentological sites

Anthropic and archaeological objects and raw materials