Emiliano Aguirre

Emiliano Aguirre Enríquez (b. October 5, 1925 in Ferrol, Spain), is a Spanish paleontologist.

Emiliano Aguirre
Residence Spain
Nationality Spanish
Fields Paleontologist
Known for Beginning the study of Atapuerca sites.

Biography

He studied Humanities and Philosophy at the Facultad Eclesiástica de Alcalá (1944–1950), Licensed in Natural Sciences by the University of Madrid (1955) and also in Theology by the University of Granada (1959). He was a former Jesuit. PhD in Biological Sciences (1966).

He took part as a paleontologist in the excavations of the Paleolithic outcrops of Torralba and Ambrona (Ambrona, Soria, 1961–1963). Director of the excavations in the Paleolithic outcrop of Las Gándaras de Budiño (Porriño, Pontevedra, 1963).

Assistant Geology lecturer at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (1965–66); visitor lecturer of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima (1967–1968); in charge of Biology for Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1969–70); lecturer of Vertebrate and Human Paleontology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1971–74); and cathedratic in Paleontology in Zaragoza (1977–79) and Complutense de Madrid Universities(1982–1984). Researching professor at the CSIC (1984–1990) and associated doctor at the CSIC from his retirement. He also was the interin director of the MNCN (1985–86).

He works as a referee in several specialised paleontology journals,[1] as Revista Española de Paleontología published by Sociedad Española de Paleontología. He also takes part in the projects of the CENIEH (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, National Centre of Human Evolution Research).

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