Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga (* 1954 in Madrid ) is a Spanish paleoanthropologist . He became internationally known in professional circles as co-director of the excavations of hominine fossils in the Sierra de Atapuerca . Together with José María Bermúdez de Castro and other colleagues, he has been researching the Sima de los Huesos site since 1992 , in which a group of 28 very completely preserved individuals of the species Homo heidelbergensis of all ages and genders was discovered.
Juan Luis Arsuaga is Professor in the Department of Paleontology in the Faculty of Geology at Complutense University of Madrid . Since 2013 he has also been the Scientific Director of the Museo de la Evolución Humana in Burgos .
Arsuaga first caused a stir in 1990 after he had recovered stone tools from layers at the Gran Dolina site , the age of which has been dated to almost a million years. This contradicted the previously valid assumption that Europe was only colonized by homosexuals 500,000 years ago . Associated fossils, which are identified as Homo antecessor , were probably recovered later.
Honors
Arsuaga is an honorary doctorate from the University of Burgos and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences . In 1997, the Atapuerca team he led was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in the scientific and technical research category.
Book publications (selection)
- The jewelry of the Neanderthal man. Europa Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3203753140 (German-language edition of El collar del neandertal , 1999)
- El primer viaje de nuestra vida. Ediciones Temas De Hoy, 2012, ISBN 9788499981802
- El reloj de Mr. Darwin. Ediciones Temas De Hoy, 2009, ISBN 9788484607922
- La especie elegida. Ediciones Temas De Hoy, 2001, ISBN 9788484604631
- with José María Bermúdez de Castro , Eudald Carbonell and J. Rodriguez (eds.): Atapuerca - Nuestros antecesores. Edition CSIC, León 1999, ISBN 9788460593355
Web links
- Biography (spanish)
- Literature by and about Juan Luis Arsuaga in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juan Luis Arsuaga et al .: Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain. In: PNAS . Volume 112, No. 37, 2015, pp. 11524–11529, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1514828112 , full text (PDF)
- ↑ Juan Luis Arsuaga et al .: Three new human skulls from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. In: Nature . Volume 362, 1993, pp. 534-537, doi: 10.1038 / 362534a0
- ↑ Complutense University: Faculty of Geology
- ↑ Europa Press: Juan Luis Arsuaga asume la dirección artística del MEH. On: rtvcyl.es of July 29, 2013
- ↑ Michael Balter: In Search of the First Europeans. In: Science . Volume 291, No. 5509, 2001, pp. 1722-1725, doi: 10.1126 / science.291.5509.1722
- ↑ Human Evolution in Europe: A Game of Thrones? On: senckenberg.de , November 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arsuaga, Juan Luis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan-Luis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish paleoanthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |