24/08/2010The CENIEH collaborates in the reconstruction of a 1100.000 year Homo sapiens skull in the Max Planck Institute
20/08/2010The CENIEH initiates a new excavation campaing in the North of Palencia
Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, are in charge of the team that will be working in the sites of Villanueva 1 and Cueva Guantes from 21 of August to 5 of September.
17/08/2010French Academy of Sciences awards "Grand Prix Louis Gentil - Jacques Bourcart" to Dr. Karine Wainer for a 1 year research project at the CEN
Dr. Karine Wainer from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prix Louis Gentil - Jacques Bourcart of the French Academy of Sciences. She is the third laureate to receive the price, since 2008, which allows a young researcher in the field of Earth Sciences to work abroad for one year.
16/08/2010The CENIEH begins the ninth excavation campaign at the Neandhertal site of Pinilla del Valle, in Madrid
23/07/2010The CENIEH collaborates with the Seattle Pacific University in bioenergy researches about current and hominin populations
21/07/2010Manuel Martín-Loeches closes the Catedra TPS-CENIEH Conference Series 2010 tallking about the social function of our brain
13/07/2010Opening of the MEH
A year after the opening of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, the Queen of Spain is back in Burgos for the Opening of the Museum of Human Evolution, MEH, located next to the CENIEH
30/06/2010The Atapuerca Research Team meets at the CENIEH to discuss about Gran Dolina site
22/06/2010José María Bermúdez de Castro awarded with the Premio Internacional Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón de Ciencia e Investigación 2010
21/06/2010The researcher Camilo Cela Conde gives a conference about human evolution and diet organized by Catedra TPS-CENIEH
16/06/2010The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the CENIEH
14/06/2010José Mª Bermúdez de Castro presents the jaw called JIMENA to the Scientific Community
The prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, has published today a paper about this childhood jaw, called Jimena, from an Homo antecessor found in Atapuerca in 2006, whose main author is the director at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana.
10/06/2010Ian Tattersall from the American Museum of Natural History in New York visits the CENIEH
04/06/2010The CENIEH begins a long-term collaboration with universities from New York and California
Due to this collaboration, the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, has a confocal microscopy designed by the paleoanthropologist prof. Timothy Bromage, from the New York University College of Dentistry, for studying the microanatomical structure of fossils.
29/05/2010The researcher Margarita Salas opens de Conference Series 2010 of the Tomás Pascual Sanz-CENIEH Chair with a talk about the role of women in Science
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24/05/2010The CENIEH collaborates with the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in four sites in Algeria
20/05/2010Rainer Grün, an International authority on Electron Spin Resonance Dating, visits the CENIEH
19/05/2010Emiliano Bruner closes the IV Conference Series CENIEH with a talk on computerized tools for the study of human evolution
11/05/2010A symposium on anatomy studies through digital images and computerized analysis gathers experts from all over the world in the CENIEH
07/05/2010The CENIEH participates in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010
Lee Arnold, Mathieu Duval and Dirk Hoffmann, researchers from the Geochronology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, have had a strong appearance at this year European Geosciences Union General Assembly, which has gathered more than 10, 000 scientifics in Vienna, from 2 to 7 of May.
04/05/2009Aida Gómez Robles, researcher at the CENIEH, new Doctor by the University of Granada
30/04/2010The director of the CENIEH, Doctor Hororis Causa by the University of Burgos
Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain has presided over at the University of Burgos the investiture ceremony as a Doctor Honoris Causa of José Mª Bermúdez de Castro, director of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH
28/04/2010The CENIEH will research in an area near Atapuerca known as Corredor de la Bureba
27/04/2010The Chief Executive Officer of the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España visits the CENIEH premises
The Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, IGME, and the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, lay the foundations to collaborate in the future
17/04/2010The CENIEH in Albuquerque for the 79 Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists
13/04/2010Emiliano Bruner from the CENIEH publishes "Morphological Differences in the Parietal Lobes within the Human Genus” in CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
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22/03/2010Emiliano Bruner from the CENIEH publishes in the JOURNAL OF ANATOMY a study about the variation in brain morphology of modern humans
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16/03/2010The archaeologist Manuel Santonja reviews the history of Ancient Paleolithic in Spain during the IV Scientific Conference Series CENIEH
08/03/2010The CENIEH participates in the XV edition of the National Course of Alzheimers´ disease "History of Evolution and History of Alzheimer"
Dr. Emiliano Bruner, in charge of the Group of Paleoneurobiology at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, has participated with the lecture Paleoneurology and cerebral evolution in humankind
05/03/2010The registration for the Symposium "Digital tools for 3D modelling in anatomy and evolution" organized by the CENIEH is now open
01/03/2010José Mª Bermúdez de Castro is appointed as director of the CENIEH by its Governing Council
26/02/2010The CENIEH Collaborates in an Paleoflood project supported by the European Union
Alicia Aldea, from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, has participated recently in a field campagne, in Andalusia, to collect samples of sediments coming from a millennium of floods.
18/02/2010José Mª Bermúdez de Castro presents his book "La Evolución del Talento. Cómo nuestros orígenes determinan nuestro presente"
09/02/2010The CENIEH finds archaeological and paleontological sites from the Middle Pleistocene in Ethiopia
05/02/2010Reserarchers from the CENIEH, cover of the prestigious magazine The Anatomical Record
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The researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Emiliano Bruner, expert in Morphology, and María Lapresa, technician of Microtomography, have been the cover of the most important anatomy magazine in the world, with a study on the microanatomy of European lizard skull
27/01/2009Josep María Parés opens the IV Conference Series for Scientific Popularization CENIEH with " The Earth, the great magnet"
21/01/2010The CENIEH again in Africa to excavate the site of Dikika
The researcher at CENIEH Mark J. Sier will be colleting samples at this Ethiopian site for dating purposes which will be analized in Burgos.
18/01/2010José Mª Bermúdez de Castro emphasizes the importance of the popularization of Science at the Casa de la Ciencia in Seville
16/01/2010The CENIEH begins with two UK universities researches on adiposity and human evolution
13/01/2010The Cátedra TPS - CENIEH begins its activities 2010 with a scientific meeting Spain - United kingdom
17/12/2009The CENIEH and the Human Paleontology Insitute of Paris collaborate studying fossils from the sites of Atapuerca and Arago
03/12/2009Great success of Mathieu Duval’s conference “Chronological framework of the first human settlements in Europe"
18/11/2009The CENIEH in the Science Week
María Martinón-Torres, research leader of the Dental Anthropology Group at the National Research Centre on Human Evolution, participates in the Science Week with the conference New theories about human evolution in Europe
09/11/2009The Seminar "150 years after Darwin: evolution, future or crisis?" gathers International experts at the CENIEH premises
03/11/2009The Cátedra TPS-CENIEH continues its activities with the Seminar "150 years after Darwin: Evolution, future or crisis?"
30/10/2009Andoni Tarriño opens the III Conference Serie on CENIEH Science Popularization with a journey to the interior of stones
27/10/2009The CENIEH gets together researchers from all over the world in a multidisciplinary meeting on the evolution of the parietal lobes
16/10/2009The CENIEH holds during 3 days the Master in Quaternary from the Universidad del País Vasco
16/10/2009The CENIEH travels to Bulgaria for developing a project in the Eastern Rhodepes sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture
15/10/2009Conference Serie of Catedra TPS - CENIEH continues in Valladolid with the researcher Jesús González Méndez
13/10/2009Researchers from the CENIEH document the first Paleolithic site in the northwestern area of Palencia
07/10/2009Researchers from the CENIEH close a very fruitful excavation campaign in Cuesta de la Bajada, Teruel
24/09/2009The CENIEH begins an archaeo-paleontological excavation project in the North of Palencia
The researchers from the CENIEH Ana Mateos Cachorro and Jesús Rodríguez Méndez will co-direct the excavation works from 27th of September to 7th of October of two archaeo-paleontological sites in Santibañez de la Peña (Palencia, Spain).
23/09/2009Researchers from the CENIEH collaborate in the Dmanisi site exhibition organized by the National Museum of Georgia
14/09/2009The CENIEH receives about 400 teeth from the Spanish Association of Periodontics and Osseointegration (SEPA) for researching
The National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) creates a collection with modern human teeth donated by SEPA in order to carry out comparative studies with hominids form Atapuerca
04/09/2009The Tomas Pascual Sanz - CENIEH Chair initiates its activities next 17th of September with a lecture on the development and nutrition of hominids
03/09/2009Elena Lacasa from the CENIEH collaborates in the archaeological site of Cova Eirós
Elena Lacasa, resotorer from the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) has taken part in the excavation campaign carried out during the month of August in the Archaeologic site of Cova Eirós, in Galicia, collaborating in situ with researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in the conservation of lithic industry and fauna findings.
14/08/2009The CENIEH participates in the Excavation Management of the archaeological sites with Neanderthal remains in Pinilla del Valle
The eighth campaign of excavations of the archaeological sites with Neanderthal remains in Pinilla del Valle (Madrid) will take place this year between the 18th of August and the 18th of September with the participation in its management of the National Research Centre on Human Evolution
12/08/2009The CENIEH will collaborate with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF, in Dental Anthropology studies
The National Research Centre on Human Evolution, CENIEH, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility have laid the foundations for future collaborations in the field of dental anthropology, with the idea they will become a reality in the upcoming months.
10/08/2009Jesús Rodríguez Méndez from the CENIEH takes part with two communications in the International Mammalogical Congress in Argentina
Jesús Rodríguez Méndez, research group leader of Mammal Paleoecology. Macroecology, from the CENIEH participates in the 10th edition of the International Mammalogical Congress that takes place, between 9th and 14 of August, in Mendoza, Argentina, with two communications called: New tools and approaches to discern the causes of faunal turnover, and Climatic change and body size in the late Cenozoic large mammals in the Northwestern Mediterranean.
07/08/2009The CENIEH initiates this summer geo-archaeological works at the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Between the 11th and the 17th of August, Alfredo Pérez-González, manager consultant and Manuel Santonja, programme coordinator of Spatial Archaeology, from the National Research Centre on Human Evolution, in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Archaeological Regional Museum of Madrid will work in Tanzania, in the Olduvai Gorge, one of the prehistoric archaeological sites most important in the world for studying the human evolution in the beginning.
29/07/2009The CENIEH opens its Conference Room with the summer course Darwin 1859 – Atapuerca 2009
José María Bermúdez de Castro, director of the National Research Centre on Human Evolution, has given a lecture on Paleobiology to the numerous alumni attending this course of the University of Burgos, who had also the opportunity of visiting the modern facilities of this institution
22/07/2009Ana Mateos from the CENIEH participates one more year in the Summer courses of the UNED
With Big Bodies and Big Brains: a question of energy, the researcher from the National Research Centre on Human Evolution has taken part in the Seminar of Prehistory Victoria Cabrera-Valdés: Neanderthal
20/07/2009The Open House Days of the CENIEH have finished succesfully
More than 3,500 people have visited the new facilities of the National Research Centre on Human Evolution
07/07/2009The Queen of Spain opens the new venue of the CENIEH
Her Majesty, accompanied by the minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia and the president of the Regional Government of Castilla y Leon, Juan Vicente Herrera Campo, has visited the several laboratories and has showed a great interest in the work of the researches.
03/07/2009The CENIEH will take part in the Summer Courses of the University of Burgos
Several researches from the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH), including its director José María Bermúdez de Castro, will be part of the teaching team who will provide the course Darwin, 1859 - Atapuerca, 2009 in Sala Cordón between 28 and 30 of July.
19/06/2009The CENIEH cooperates with Morocco in geo-archeological projects
The human evolution cannot be understood without knowing what happened in the North of Africa” explains the researcher Alfredo Pérez González
15/06/2009Researchers from the CENIEH begin the Excavations Campaign in Atapuerca
Gran Dolina, Galería and la Sima del Elefante are the sites chosen to begin the works that will last until the end of July.
09/06/2009The Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution, CENIEH, and Tomas Pascual Sanz Institute will cooperate in the field of health and nutrition
As a result of the collaboration agreement signed between both institutions, the Tomas Pascual Sanz - CENIEH Chair has been created in order to produce, discuss and spread knowledge about nutrition and life habits
15/04/2009José Mª Bermúdez de Castro will give a lecture on Atapuerca in Murcia
The Director of CENIEH will participate in the Human Evolution Lecture Series in Murcia. His lecture will take place on 24th April.01/04/2009CENIEH´s Researchers in Bucarest
Together with Atapuerca Foundation, the Instituto Cervantes in Bucarest organises two lectures about the Atapuerca sites. Prof. José Mª Bermúdez de Castro and Dr. Ana Mateos Cachorro will present different approaches to the topic.
24/03/2009Human Evolution and the World Heritage Convention at the CENIEH
The participants of the Human Evolution and theWorld Heritage Convention will visit today the premises of the CENIEH.
11/11/2008Lecture on Evolution with the Peña REcreativa Castellana
Dr. Josep Mª Parés will give a lecture on Evolution at the 75th Anniversary of the Peña Recreativa Castellana, today at 20,15h in the hall of Caja Rural at Plaza España, Burgos.07/11/2008CENIEH and UBU together at the 7th Week of Sciences
José Mª Bermúdez de Castro, Director of the CENIEH, will attend on Monday the 10th of November, the Innaugural Act of the 7th Week of Sciences organised by the University of Burgos.05/11/2008CENIEH AND PATRIMONY PRESERVATION
Prof. José Mª Bermúdez de Castro, Director of CENIEH, and Dr. Diego E. Angelucci, will participate in the course Experimental Sciences for Patrimony Preservation, organised by the University of Burgos.
20/10/2008A research fellow at CENIEH is awarded a "José Castillejo" fund
Dr. Ana Mateos Cachorro, leader of the Paleophisiology and Sociobiology of Hominins research group has been awarded a "José Castillejo" funding.
01/04/2008New scientific publication in PLoS Biology: Mammuts dissappearance due to the combination of climate changes and human impact
26/03/2008LECTURE AT THE SANTIMAMIÑE CONFERENCE
Dr. Antonio Tarriño Vinagre gives a lecture at the Santimamiñe Conference. 2-3 Abril 2008 at the Bibioteca Foral de Bizkaia, Bilbao, on the exploitation of silex.07/02/2008Scientific Meetings Spain-Bulgary
Research and scientific management: challenges for XXI-century science.
08/06/2006CENIEH members take part in an internacional proyect financed by BBVA Foundation