• A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula 

      González Fortes, Gloria; Tassi, Franco; Trucchi, Emiliano; Henneberger, Kirstin; Paijmans, Johanna L. A.; Díez del Molino, David; Schroeder, Hannes; Susca, Roberta Rosa; Barroso-Ruíz, Cecilio; Bermúdez, Francisco J.; Barroso-Medina, C.; Bettencourt, Ana M. S.; Sampaio, Hugo Aluai; Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora; Salas, Antonio; Lombera Hermida, Arturo de; Fábregas Valcarce, Ramón; Vaquero, Manuel; Alonso, Susana; Lozano, Marina; Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro; Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos; Manica, Andrea; Hofreiter, Michael; Barbujani, Guido (The Royal Society, 2019-01-23)
      [Abstract] Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African ...
    • Análisis genético del individuo de Chan do Lindeiro: caracterización de su mitogenoma y situación de la muestra en el contexto paleogenético europeo 

      González Fortes, Gloria; Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora; Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón; Hofreiter, Michael (2017)
      [Resumen] En este trabajo se presentan los primeros resultados de un estudio de paleogenética realizado en los restos óseos de Elba, la mujer mesolítica de Chan do Lindeiro (Pedrafita do Cebreiro, Lugo). El estudio se ...
    • Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence 

      Gurke, Marie; Vidal-Gorosquieta, Amalia; Pajimans, Johanna L. A.; Wȩcek, Karolina; Barlow, Axel; González Fortes, Gloria; Hartmann, Stefanie; Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora; Hofreiter, Michael (PLOS, 2021-04-28)
      [Abstract] Domestic cattle were brought to Spain by early settlers and agricultural societies. Due to missing Neolithic sites in the Spanish region of Galicia, very little is known about this process in this region. We ...
    • Paleogenomic evidence for multi-generational mixing between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the lower Danube basin 

      González Fortes, Gloria; Jones, Eppie R.; Lightfoot, Emma; Bonsall, Clive; Lazar, Catalin; Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora; Garralda, María Dolores; Drak, Labib; Siska, Veronika; Simalcsik, Angela; Boroneanţ, Adina; Vidal Romaní, Juan Ramón; Vaqueiro Rodríguez, Marcos; Arias Cabal, Pablo; Pinhasi, Ron; Manica, Andrea; Hofreiter, Michael (Cell, 2017-05-25)
      [Abstract] The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and synchronously after the arrival of ...
    • Preservación de ADN en muestras de úrsidos Pleistocenos y Holocenos del NW de la Península Ibérica 

      González Fortes, Gloria; García-Vázquez, Ana; Pinto, Ana; Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora (2017)
      [Resumen] En este trabajo se presentan 73 secuencias cortas de ADN mitocondrial (ADN mt) obtenidas a partir de 30 muestras de oso pardo (Ursus arctos) y 56 de oso cavernario (Ursus spelaeus) procedentes de diversos yacimientos ...
    • Proceso de elaboración de la pieza escultórica de Elba, la mujer Mesolítica de Chan do Lindeiro (Lugo) 

      Rubio García, Carlos Javier; González Galindo, Sandra; Alonso Montero, Rosa; González Fortes, Gloria; Liroz Mellado, Maite; Calero González, José Manuel; Díaz Pinar, Sara; Díaz García-Rovés, Luis (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2020-12-28)
      [Abstract] This article addresses the process of making the hyper-realistic sculpture of Elba, the Mesolithic shepherd of O Courel, whose remains were found in the cave of Chan do Lindeiro (Pedrafita do Cebreiro, Lugo). ...
    • The Cave Bear’s Hibernation: Reconstructing the Physiology and Behaviour of an Extinct Animal 

      Grandal-d'Anglade, Aurora; Pérez Rama, Marta; García-Vázquez, Ana; González Fortes, Gloria (Taylor & Francis, 2018-05-02)
      [Abstract] When studying an extinct species such as the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER 1794), it is possible to apply a variety of molecular biology techniques such as the study of stable isotopes or mitochondrial ...