SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

· Alvarez-Vena, A., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Alvarez-Lao, D.J., Laplana, C., Arriolabengoa, M., Ballesteros, D., Aranburu, A., Bilbao, P., Díaz-Casado, Y., 2023. Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in norhern Iberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 616, 111476

· Baquedano, E., Arsuaga, J.L., Pérez-González, A., Laplana, C. Márquez, B., Huguet, R., Gómez-Soler, S., Villaescusa, L., Galindo-Pellicena, M.A., Rodríguez, L., García-González, R., Ortega, M.C., Martín-Perea, D.M., Ortega, A.I., Hernández-Vivanco, L., Ruiz-Liso, G., Gómez-Hernanz, J., Alonso-Martín, J., Abrunhosa, A., Moclán, A., Casado, A., Vegara-Riquelme, M., Alvarez-Fernández, A., Domínguez-García, A.C., Alvarez-Lao, D.J., García, N., Sevilla, P., Blain, H.A., Ruiz-Zapata, B. Gil-García, M.J., Alvarez-Vena, A., Sanz, T., Quam, R., Higham, T., 2023. A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania. Nature Human Behaviour 7 (3), 342-352. 

· Moclán, A., Huguet, R., Márquez, B., Laplana, C., Galindo-Pellicena, M.A. ,García, N., Blain, H.A., Alvarez-Lao, D.J., Arsuaga, J.L., Pérez-González, A., Baquedano, E., 2021. A neanderthal hunting camp in the central system of the Iberian Peninsula: A zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Navalmaillo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews 269, 107142

· Álvarez-Vena, A., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Laplana, C., Quesada, J.M., Rojo, J., García-Sanchez, E., Menéndez, M., 2021. Environmental context for the Late Pleistocene (MIS 3) transition from Neanderthals to early Modern Humans: Analysis of small mammals from La Güelga Cave, Asturias, northern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562, 110096

· Ballesteros, D., Álvarez-Vena, A., Monod-Del Dago, M., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Sanjurjo-Sánchez, J., Álvarez-Lao, D., Pérez-Mejías, C., Valenzuela, P., DeFelipe, I., Laplana, C., Cheng, H., Jiménez-Sánchez, M., 2020. Paleoenvironmental evolution of Picos de Europa (Spain) during marine isotopic stages 5c to 3 combining glacial reconstruction, cave sedimentology and paleontological findings. Quaternary Science Reviews 248, 106581

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Ballesteros, D., Rivals, F., Álvarez-Vena, A., Valenzuela, P., Jiménez-Sánchez, M., 2020. First occurrence of musk ox Ovibos moschatus in the Late Pleistocene (MIS 3) record from NW Iberia: Paleobiogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 238, 106336.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Alvarez-Vena, A., Ballesteros, D., García, N., Laplana, C., 2020. A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3). Quaternary Science Reviews 229, 106123.

· Rivals, F., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., 2018. Ungulate dietary traits and plasticity in zones of ecological transition inferred from late Pleistocene assemblages at Jou Puerta and Rexidora in the Cantabrian Region of northern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 499, 123-130.

· Ballesteros, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., González-Lemos, S., Giralt Romeu, S., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Adrados, L., Jiménez-Sánchez, M., 2017. New evidence of sea-level lowstands and paleoenvironment during MIS 6 and 4 in the Cantabrian coastal karst: the Cobiheru Cave (North Iberia). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42, 1704-1726.

· Cortés-Sánchez, M., Morales-Muñiz, A., Jiménez-Espejo, F., Évora, M., Simón-Vallejo, M.D., García-Alix, A., Martínez Aguirre, A., Riquelme-Cantal, J.A., Odriozola, C.P., Parrilla Giráldez, R., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., 2017. Multi-purpose fossils? The reappraisal of an Elephas antiquus molar from El Pirulejo (Magdalenian; Córdoba, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9, 1287-1303.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Rivals, F., Sánchez-Hernández, C., Blasco, R., Rosell, J., 2017. Ungulates from Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain): Presence of cold-adapted elements in NE Iberia during the MIS 3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 466, 287-302.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Méndez, M., 2016. Latitudinal gradients and indicator species in ungulate paleoassemblages during the MIS 3 in W Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 449, 455-462.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., 2016. Middle Pleistocene large-mammal faunas from North Iberia: Palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications. Boreas 45, 191-206.

· Rodríguez-Varela, R., García, N., Nores, C., Álvarez-Lao, D., Barnett, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Valdiosera, C., 2016. Ancient DNA reveals past existence of Eurasian lynx in Spain. Journal of Zoology 298, 94-102.

· Césari, S.N., Álvarez-Vázquez, C., Méndez-Bedia, I., Álvarez-Lao, D., Turrero, P., Arbizu, M., 2015. First report of permineralised plants in the Stephanian of Arnao (Asturias, northwestern Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440, 475-486.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Ruiz-Zapata, M.B., Gil-García, M.J., Ballesteros, D., Jiménez-Sánchez, M., 2015. Palaeoenvironmental research at Rexidora Cave: New evidence of cold and dry conditions in NW Iberia during MIS 3. Quaternary International 379, 35-46.

· Gómez-Olivencia, A., Arceredillo, D., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Garate, D., San Pedro, Z., Castaños, P., Rios-Garaizar, J., 2014. New evidence for the presence of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on the Iberian Peninsula in the Pleistocene: an archaeopalaeontological and chronological reassessment. Boreas 43, 286-308.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., 2014. The Jou Puerta cave (Asturias, NW Spain): a MIS 3 large mammal assemblage with mixture of cold and temperate elements. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 393, 1-19.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Arsuaga, J.L., Baquedano, E., Pérez-González, A., 2013. Last Interglacial (MIS 5) ungulate assemblage from the Central Iberian Peninsula: The Camino Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 374, 327-337.

· Arsuaga, J.L., Baquedano, E., Pérez-González, A., Sala, N., Quam, R.M., Rodríguez, L., García, R., García, N., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Laplana, C., Huguet, R., Sevilla, P., Maldonado, E., Blain, H.A., Ruiz-Zapata, M.B., Sala, P., Gil-García, M.J., Uzquiano, P., Pantoja, A., Márquez, B., 2012. Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS 5) Neanderthals of central Iberia: Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic evidence from the Cueva del Camino (Spain) site. Quaternary International 275, 55-75. 

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., García, N., 2012. Comparative revision of the Iberian woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) record into a European context. Quaternary Science Reviews 32, 64-74.

· Álvarez-Lao D.J., Méndez, M., 2011. Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the mandible of adult woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius). Geobios 44(4), 335-343.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., García, N., 2011. Southern dispersal and Palaeoecological implications of woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis): review of the Iberian occurrences. Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (15-16), 2002-2017.

· López-García, J.M., Cuenca-Bescós, G., Blain, H.-A., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Uzquiano, P., Adán, G.,   Arbizu, M., Arsuaga, J.L., 2011. Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Mousterian-Aurignacian transition in northern Iberia: The small-vertebrate assemblage from Cueva del Conde (Santo Adriano, Asturias). Journal of Human Evolution 61, 108-116.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., García, N., 2011. Geographical distribution of Pleistocene cold-adapted large mammal faunas in the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International 233, 159-170.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., García, N., 2010. Chronological distribution of Pleistocene cold-adapted large mammal faunas in the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International 212, 120-128.

· Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Kahlke, R.-D., García, N., Mol, D., 2009. The Padul mammoth finds - On the southernmost record of Mammuthus primigenius in Europe and its southern spread during the Late Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 278, 57-70.

· Adán, G.E., Álvarez-Lao, D.J., Turrero, P., Arbizu, M., García-Vázquez, E., 2009. Fish as diet resource in North Spain during the Upper Paleolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 895-899.

· Álvarez-Laó, D.J., García, N., 2006. A new site from the Spanish Middle Pleistocene with cold-resistant faunal elements: La Parte (Asturias, Spain). Quaternary International 142-143, 107-118.

· Arbizu, M., Álvarez-Laó, D.J., Adán, G., 2005. Una guarida de Crocuta crocuta en Leguín (Echauri, Navarra). Munibe (Antropologia-Arkeologia) 57 (1), 131-138.

· Álvarez-Laó, D.J., 2003. Macromamíferos fósiles del Pleistoceno de Asturias. Revisión bibliográfica y datos actuales. Naturalia Cantabricae 2, 11-23.

· Álvarez-Laó, D.J., 2002. Recuperación y estudio de la colección de Vertebrados Cuaternarios del Departamento de Geología de la Universidad de Oviedo. Revista Española de Paleontología 17 (2), 187-198.