Juan Luis Arsuaga
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Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras (born 1959, Madrid) obtained doctor and bachelor degrees in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is also the head of the Paleontology Department.
As a child he already showed a great interest in Prehistory after reading Quest for Fire and visiting a dig near Bilbao
He is a Visiting Professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University College of London and a member of the Equipment of Investigations of Pleistocene Deposits of the Mountain range of Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) from 1982. From 1991 he has been a co-director with José María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell Roura of the Equipment that was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Scientific and Technical Research in 1997 and the Prize Castilla León to the Social Sciences and Humanities, in 1997. The finds at Atapuerca have shed new light on the first humans in Europe. This contrasts with the secretive atmosphere surrounding the digs to near Orce, in southern Spain, which has yielded tools indicating human presence that predate the finds at Atapuerca.
A member of the Museum of Man from Paris, of the International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology, he is vice-president of the Commission of Human Paleontology and Paleoecology of the INQUA ( International Union Quaternary Research. He has been a lecturer in the universities of London, Cambridge, Zurich, Rome, Arizona, Philadelphia, Berkeley, New York, Tel Aviv, among others.
He has been the author and/or the publisher of several scientific publications in Nature , Science, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Archaeological Science, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and Journal of Human Evolution.
[edit] Books
- Amalur, 2002 (ISBN 84-8460-191-9)
- El enigma de la esfinge 2001 , (ISBN 84-01-34160-4)
- El collar del neandertal, 1999 (ISBN 8478807934
- Atapuerca, un millón de años de historia, 1999 (ISBN 84-7491-629-1)
- La especie elegida 1998 with Ignacio Martínez (ISBN 84-7880-909-0)
[edit] References
- In Spanish [1]
