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Department of Geography, History and History of Art


MAROTO GENOVER, Julià

University Lecturer
Research lines: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic;
Quaternary fauna of Catalonia
Girona, 1959. Prehistorian and palaeontologist. He read History and Geology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was awarded a Doctorate by the University of Girona in 1994. His research has mainly dealt with the study of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic periods, along with quaternary fauna in the northeast of Catalonia. In particular he has focused on the time of extinction of the Neanderthals and their replacement by modern humans; he is currently coordinating an interuniversity project to establish the chronology of this process in the northern half of the Iberian peninsula. He has participated in directing several excavation campaigns, mainly at the Ermitons Caves (Sales de Llierca), l’Arbreda (Serinyà), Mollet (Serinyà) and at the Palaeolithic settlement of Incarcal (Crespià). He has also worked on the Neanderthal mandible of Banyoles. He promoted and produced the project for the Serinyà Prehistoric Caves Park.
Publications

  • Bischoff, J. L., Soler, N., Maroto, J., and Julià, R. (1989). "Abrupt Mousterian/ Aurignacian Boundary at c. 40 ka bp: Accelerator 14C dates from L'Arbreda Cave (Catalonia, Spain)", Journal of Archaeological Science, 16, pp. 563-576

  • Maroto, J. (ed.) (1993). La mandíbula de Banyoles en el context dels fòssils humans del pleistocè. Girona: Centre d’Investigacions Arqueològiques

  • Maroto, J., Soler, N., and Fullola, J. M. (1996). "Cultural Change between Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Catalonia", Carbonell, E., i Vaquero, M. (eds.), The last neandertals, the first anatomically modern humans: A tale about the diversity. Cultural change and human evolution: the crisis at 40 KA BP. Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, pp. 219-250

  • Carbonell, E., Vaquero, M., Maroto, J., Rando, J. M., and Mallol, C. (2000). "A Geographic Perspective on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula", Bar-Yosef, O., i Pilbeam, D. (eds.), The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University in Spring, pp. 5-36

  • Maroto, J., Sacchi, D., and Ortega, D. (2002). "Le Moustérien tardif des Pyrénées méditerranéennes", Préhistoire Anthropologie Méditerranéennes, 10-11, pp. 39-49

  • Galobart, A., and Maroto, J. (2003). Los yacimientos paleontológicos de Incarcal (Crespià). Sabadell: Diputació de Barcelona

  • Grün, R., Maroto, J., Eggins, S., Stringer, C., Robertson, S., Taylor, L., Mortimer, G., and McCulloch, M. (2006). "ESR and U-series analyses of enamel and dentine fragments of the Banyoles mandible", Journal of Human Evolution, 50, pp. 347-358
Contact details
E-mail: julia.maroto@udg.edu
Office: 2nd floor
 Tel: 972 41 87 83
Courses taught
Recent prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula
Human fossils: culture and evolution