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  • Laugier, E. J., Casana, J., & Cabanes, D. (2022). Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). Scientific Reports, 12(1), 60–60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03552-w

 

  • Burguet-Coca, A., Del Valle, H., Expósito, I., Herrejón-Lagunilla, Á., Buitkute, E., Cabanes, D., Cáceres, I., Carrancho, Á., & Villalaín, J. J. (2022). The Fumier Sequences of El Mirador: An Approach to Fire as a Sociocultural Practice and Taphonomic Agent. In Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (pp. 89–110). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12278-1_5

 

  • Daura, J., Sanz, M., Demuro, M., Arnold, L. J., Costa, A. M., Moreno, J., Freitas, M. da C., Lopes, V., Egueez, N., Hoffmann, D. L., Benson, A., Cabanes, D., Garcia-Targa, J., & Fullola, J. M. (2021). A new chronological framework and site formation history for Cova del Gegant (Barcelona); implications for Neanderthal and anatomically modern human occupation of NE Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 270, 107141-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107141

 

  • Laugier, E.J., Casana, J., Glatz, C., Sameen, S.M., Cabanes, D., 2021. Reconstructing agro-pastoral practice in the Mesopotamian-Zagros borderlands: Insights from phytolith and FTIR analysis of a dung-rich deposit, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38.

 

  • Daura, J., Sanz, M., Demuro, M., Arnold, L.J., Costa, A.M., Moreno, J., da Conceição Freitas, M., Lopes, V., Égüez, N., Hoffmann, D.L., Benson, A., Cabanes, D., García-Targa, J., Fullola, J.M., 2021. A new chronological framework and site formation history for Cova del Gegant (Barcelona): Implications for Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Human occupation of NE Iberian Peninsula, Quaternary Science Reviews.

 

  • Sanz, M., Daura, J., Cabanes, D., Égüez, N., Carrancho, Á., Badal, E., Souto, P., Rodrigues, F., Zilhão, J., 2020. Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), Scientific Reports 10.

 

  • Esteban, I., Marean, C.W., Cowling, R.M., Fisher, E.C., Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2020. Palaeoenvironments and plant availability during MIS 6 to MIS 3 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa) as indicated by phytolith analysis at Pinnacle Point, Quaternary Science Reviews 235.

 

  • Burguet-Coca, A., Polo-Díaz, A., Martínez-Moreno, J., Benito-Calvo, A., Allué, E., Mora, R., Cabanes, D., 2020. Pen management and livestock activities based on phytoliths, dung spherulites, and minerals from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern pre-Pyrenees), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12.

 

  • Wroth, K., Cabanes, D., Marston, J.M., Aldeias, V., Sandgathe, D., Turq, A., Goldberg, P., Dibble, H.L., 2019. Neanderthal plant use and pyrotechnology: phytolith analysis from Roc de Marsal, France, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 4325-4346.

 

  • Mallol, C., Hernández, C., Mercier, N., Falguères, C., Carrancho, Á., Cabanes, D., Vidal-Matutano, P., Connolly, R., Pérez, L., Mayor, A., Ben Arous, E., Galván, B., 2019. Fire and brief human occupations in Iberia during MIS 4: Evidence from Abric del Pastor (Alcoy, Spain), Scientific Reports 9.

 

  • Esteban, I., Marean, C.W., Fisher, E.C., Karkanas, P., Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2018. Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa), PLoS ONE 13.

 

  • Zilhão, J., Anesin, D., Aubry, T., Badal, E., Cabanes, D., Kehl, M., Klasen, N., Lucena, A., Martín-Lerma, I., Martínez, S., Matias, H., Susini, D., Steier, P., Wild, E.M., Angelucci, D.E., Villaverde, V., Zapata, J., 2017. Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia, Heliyon 3.

 

  • Sanz, M., Daura, J., Égüez, N., Cabanes, D., 2017. On the track of anthropogenic activity in carnivore dens: Altered combustion structures in Cova del Gegant (NE Iberian Peninsula), Quaternary International 437, 102-114.

 

  • Rodríguez-Cintas, Á., Cabanes, D., 2017. Phytolith and FTIR studies applied to combustion structures: The case of the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt (Alcoy, Alicante), Quaternary International 431, 16-26.

 

  • Esteban, I., Vlok, J., Kotina, E.L., Bamford, M.K., Cowling, R.M., Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2017. Phytoliths in plants from the south coast of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa), Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 245, 69-84.

 

  • Esteban, I., De Vynck, J.C., Singels, E., Vlok, J., Marean, C.W., Cowling, R.M., Fisher, E.C., Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2017. Modern soil phytolith assemblages used as proxies for Paleoscape reconstruction on the south coast of South Africa, Quaternary International 434, 160-179.

 

  • Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Bruins, H., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Cabanes, D., Horwitz, L.K., Neumann, F.H., Osband, M., Porat, N., Weiss, E., Maeir, A.M., 2017. Ancient environment and human interaction at Tell es -Sâfi / Gath, Near Eastern Archaeology 80, 244-246.

 

  • Vergès, J.M., Burguet-Coca, A., Allué, E., Expósito, I., Guardiola, M., Martín, P., Morales, J.I., Burjachs, F., Cabanes, D., Carrancho, Á., Vallverdú, J., 2016. The Mas del Pepet experimental programme for the study of prehistoric livestock practices: Preliminary data from dung burning, Quaternary International 414, 304-315.

 

  • Stutz, A.J., Shea, J.J., Rech, J.A., Pigati, J.S., Wilson, J., Belmaker, M., Albert, R.M., Arpin, T., Cabanes, D., Clark, J.L., Hartman, G., Hourani, F., White, C.E., Nilsson Stutz, L., 2015. Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant: New ABOx-SC accelerator mass spectrometry results from the Mughr el-Hamamah Site, Jordan, Journal of Human Evolution 85, 157-173.

 

  • Regev, L., Cabanes, D., Homsher, R., Kleiman, A., Weiner, S., Finkelstein, I., Shahack-Gross, R., 2015. Geoarchaeological investigation in a domestic iron age quarter, Tel Megiddo, Israel, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 374, 135-157.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Shahack-Gross, R., 2015. Understanding fossil phytolith preservation: The role of partial dissolution in paleoecology and archaeology, PLoS ONE 10.

 

  • Balbo, A.L., Cabanes, D., García-Granero, J.J., Bonet, A., Ajithprasad, P., Terradas, X., 2015. A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits, Environmental Archaeology 20, 390-405.

 

  • Asscher, Y., Cabanes, D., Hitchcock, L.A., Maeir, A.M., Weiner, S., Boaretto, E., 2015. Radiocarbon dating shows an early appearance of Philistine material culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia, Radiocarbon 57, 825-850.

 

  • Shahack-Gross, R., Boaretto, E., Cabanes, D., Katz, O., Finkelstein, I., 2014. Subsistence economy in the Negev Highlands: The Iron Age and the Byzantine/ Early Islamic period, Levant 46, 98-117.

 

  • Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Boaretto, E., Bruins, H.J., Cabanes, D., Horwitz, L.K., Neumann, F.H., Porat, N., Weiss, E., Maeir, A.M., 2014. Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean, Anthropocene 8, 70-82.

 

  • Mallol, C., Hernández, C.M., Cabanes, D., Sistiaga, A., Machado, J., Rodríguez, T., Pérez, L., Galván, B., 2013. The black layer of Middle Palaeolithic combustion structures. Interpretation and archaeostratigraphic implications, Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 2515-2537.

 

  • Mallol, C., Hernández, C.M., Cabanes, D., Machado, J., Sistiaga, A., Pérez, L., Galván, B., 2013. Human actions performed on simple combustion structures: An experimental approach to the study of Middle Palaeolithic fire, Quaternary International 315, 3-15.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Gadot, Y., Cabanes, M., Finkelstein, I., Weiner, S., Shahack-Gross, R., 2012. Human impact around settlement sites: A phytolith and mineralogical study for assessing site boundaries, phytolith preservation, and implications for spatial reconstructions using plant remains, Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 2697-2705.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2012. Erratum to “Microarchaeology of a collective burial: Cova des Pas (Minorca)” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 38 (5) (2011) 1119-1126], Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 1911.

 

  • Allué, E., Cabanes, D., Solé, A., Sala, R., 2012. Hearth functioning and forest resource exploitation based on the archeobotanical assemblage from level J, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, pp. 373-385.

 

  • Albert, R.M., Cau, M.Á., Cabanes, D., 2012. The international workshop on site formation and post-depositional processes in archaeology (Barcelona, 2-4 June 2010), Quaternary International 275, 1-3.

 

  • Namdar, D., Zukerman, A., Maeir, A.M., Katz, J.C., Cabanes, D., Trueman, C., Shahack-Gross, R., Weiner, S., 2011. The 9th century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Integrating macro- and microarchaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 3471-3482.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Weiner, S., Shahack-Gross, R., 2011. Stability of phytoliths in the archaeological record: A dissolution study of modern and fossil phytoliths, Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 2480-2490.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2011. Microarchaeology of a collective burial: Cova des Pas (Minorca), Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 1119-1126.

 

  • Mallol, C., Cabanes, D., Baena, J., 2010. Microstratigraphy and diagenesis at the upper Pleistocene site of Esquilleu Cave (Cantabria, Spain), Quaternary International 214, 70-81.

 

  • Katz, O., Cabanes, D., Weiner, S., Maeir, A.M., Boaretto, E., Shahack-Gross, R., 2010. Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: An application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 1557-1563.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Mallol, C., Expósito, I., Baena, J., 2010. Phytolith evidence for hearths and beds in the late Mousterian occupations of Esquilleu cave (Cantabria, Spain), Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 2947-2957.

 

  • Cabanes, D., Burjachs, F., Expósito, I., Rodríguez, A., Allué, E., Euba, I., Vergès, J.M., 2009. Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, Quaternary International 193, 160-173.

 

  • Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D., 2009. Palaeoecological significance of palms at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, based on phytolith remains, Quaternary International 193, 41-48.

 

  • Albert, R.M., Shahack-Gross, R., Cabanes, D., Gilboa, A., Lev-Yadun, S., Portillo, M., Sharon, I., Boaretto, E., Weiner, S., 2008. Phytolith-rich layers from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): mode of formation and archaeological significance, Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 57-75.

 

  • Albert, R.M., Cabanes, D., 2007. Fire in prehistory: An experimental approach to combustion processes and phytolith remains, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 56, 175-189.

 

  • Bamford, M.K., Albert, R.M., Cabanes, D., 2006. Plio-Pleistocene macroplant fossil remains and phytoliths from Lowermost Bed II in the eastern palaeolake margin of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Quaternary International 148, 95-112.

 

  • Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D., 2006. Taphonomy of phytoliths and macroplants in different soils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the application to Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological samples, Quaternary International 148, 78-94.