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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Anna Rufà

Citation names

  • Rufà, Anna

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
181D-DDA5-2D9E
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1278-4220

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
Education
Degree Classification
2023/12/12 - 2023/12/15
Concluded
 TIFA - Systematic synthesis for prehistoric data and literature (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023/04/26 - 2023/04/28
Concluded
 TIFA - Advanced Methods in Zooarchaeology (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/02/23
Concluded
 TIFA - Dating in Archaeology: Introduction to geochronology and Bayesian age modelling (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2022/05/17 - 2022/05/19
Concluded
 TIFA - Genetics for Archaeologists (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2021/09/28 - 2021/09/30
Concluded
 Fundamentals of PhD supervision, for new and experienced supervisors (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2017/10/16 - 2017/12/15
Concluded
 R-commander (R-cmdr) statistical software for the R programming language (Outros)
Centro Internacional de Estudios Multimedia en Arqueología de Madrid, Spain
2017/09/05
Concluded
 PhD in Quaternary and Prehistory (with International Mention) (Doctor)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
"El papel de las pequeñas presas en la dieta humana del Paleolítico medio y superior. Una visión diacrónica desde el valle del Ródano al arco mediterráneo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent (Cum laude)
2013/09/24
Concluded
 Master in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (Erasmus Mundus) (Master)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
"El consumo de pequeñas presas durante el Paleolítico medio. El caso de los lepóridos del nivel III de la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona, España). " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent
2011/06/11
Concluded
 Licence in History (Licence)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
 Excellent (Extraordinary Final Studies Prize)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/15 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2021/01/01 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) Université de Bordeaux, France
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel Culture Environnement et Anthropologie, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - 2028/12/31 SCAVENGERS
2022-ADG-101097511
Collaborator
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2018 - 2018 Nouvelles approaches pour comprendre les signatures taphonomiques sur les assemblages osseux et son application archéologique
Allocation Post-Doctorale 2018
Post-doc Fellow
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel Culture Environnement et Anthropologie, France
 Fondation Fyssen
Cancelled

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/09/15 - 2027/09/14 Searching for the lost pieces: unravelling the role of small game in the Iberian Palaeolithic
2020.00877.CEECIND
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/11/01 - 2021/06/30 New approaches to understand the taphonomic signature of predators on bird bone assemblages, and its archaeological implications (BirdTaph)
ANR No.-10-IDEX-03-02
Principal investigator
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel Culture Environnement et Anthropologie, France
 Université de Bordeaux
Concluded
2021 - 2021 Rethinking the role of small prey in the Iberian Palaeolithic from taphonomy (ReTROSPecT)
101038089
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Research Executive Agency
Cancelled
2013/04/08 - 2017/04/07 El consumo de pequeñas presas durante el Paleolítico Medio: estrategias de subsistencia de los homínidos. El caso de la Cueva de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona)
FPU12/00238
PhD Student Fellow
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2026/08/31 Between cultural diversity and behavioral variability: continuity and change in the Neanderthal populations of the Iberian Peninsula (NEANDIVERSITY2)
PID2022-138590NB-C41
Researcher
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Competència, Co-evolució i Comensalisme: l'ús d'ambients càrstics per humans i carnívorsdurant el Paleolític Mitjà
CLT009/22/00045
Researcher
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Territoris prehistòrics de la Conca de l'Anoia
CLT009/22/00044
Researcher
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Evolució paleoambiental i poblament prehistòric a les conques dels rius Francolí, Gaià, Siurana i rieres del Camp de Tarragona
CLT009/22/00024
Researcher
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
Ongoing
2020 - 2025 Paleoecology of the Lazaret Cave: Environment(s)-Human interactions
PCR « paléoécologie du Lazaret »
Technical development
Cultures et Environnements Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, France
 DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Short-, medium- and long-distance interactions between upper Paleolithic Human Societies on the Bay of Biscay seen through biotic and abiotic resources (PaleontheMove).
PID2020-114462GB-I00
Technical development
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2020/06/01 - 2023/05/31 Between cultural diversity and behavioral variability: continuity and change in the Neanderthal populations of the Iberian Peninsula (NEANDIVERSITY).
PID2019-103987GB-C31
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Cinglera del Capelló
CLT009/18/00054
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Evolució paleoambiental i poblament prehistòric a les conques dels rius Francolí, Gaià, Siurana i rieres del Camp de Tarragona
CLT009/18/00053
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Nenadertals i carnívors: una història compartida
CLT009/18/00055
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Group of Analyses on Socio-ecological Processes, Cultural Changes and Population dynamics during Prehistory (GAPS)
2017-SGR-836
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Ongoing
2016/12/30 - 2019/12/29 Snapshots of Neanderthal lifestyles 2: Behavioural patterns and high resolution archaeology
HAR2016-76760-C3-1-P
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Sharing space: interactions between hominids and carnivores in the northeast of the Peninsula
2014/100573
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2016/12/31 Group of analysis of socio-ecological processes, cultural changes and population dynamics in Prehistory (GAPS)
2014-SGR-900
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2016/12/31 Snapshots of Neanderthal lifestyles: Behavioural patterns and high resolution archaeology
HAR2013-48784-C3-1-P
Technical development
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2016/12/31 Entre plaines et montagnes: espaces de subsistance et expressions culturelles au Paléolithique moyen dans le Massif central (Auvergne-Ardèche)
-
Technical development
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
 Agence Régionale de Santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ruth Blasco; David Cochard; André Colonese; Véronique Laroulandie; Jacqueline Meier; Eugène Morin; Anna Rufà; Laura Tassoni; Jessica Thompson. Corresponding author: Ruth Blasco. "Chapter 8: Small animal use by Neanderthals". In Updating Neanderthals, edited by Stefano Benazzi; Francesca Romagnoli; Florent Rivals, 123-143. Elsevier, 2022.
    Published
  2. Allué, Ethel; Argant, Alain; Argant, Jacqueline; Bailon, Salvador; Béarez, Philippe; Blasco, Ruth; Brochard, Samantha; et al. "Chapitre 3. Contexte géoarchéologique, chronologique et environnemental". In La grotte des Barasses II (Balazuc, Ardèche) : Entre néandertaliens, bouquetins et carnivores…, edited by Camille Daujeard, 31-107. France: Alpara, 2018.
    10.4000/books.alpara.4233
  3. Blasco, Ruth; Daujeard, Camille; Delvigne, Vincent; Desclaux, Emmanuel; Fernandes, Paul; Foury, Yann; Guillaud, Émilie; et al. "Chapitre 4. Les différentes phases d’occupation de la cavité : fonction(s) du site". In La grotte des Barasses II (Balazuc, Ardèche) : Entre néandertaliens, bouquetins et carnivores…, edited by Camille Daujeard, 107-161. Alpara, 2018.
    10.4000/books.alpara.4290
  4. Jordi Rosell; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; María Gema Chacón; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Juan Manuel López-García; Andrea Picin; et al. "Cova del Toll and Cova de les Teixoneres. Moià, Barcelona". In Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers in Iberia and the Gibraltar Strait: the current archaeological record., edited by Robert Sala, 302-307. Burgos, Spain: Universidad de Burgos - Fundación Atapuerca, 2014.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Rufà, Anna; Sanz, Montserrat; Daura, Joan. Corresponding author: Rufà, Anna. "Memories hidden in faeces. Taphonomic story of bone contents from lynx coprolites". Paper presented in 63rd Conference of the Hugo Obermaier Society, Berlin, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Muñoz del Pozo, Alicia; Gómez de Soler, Bruno; Bustos-Pérez, Guillermo; Chacón, M.Gema; Picin, Andrea; Blasco, Ruth; Rivals, Florent; Rufà, Anna; Rosell, Jordi. "Análisis and classification of the Middle Palaeolithic raw materials from Teixoneres cave: Project overview and initial results". Paper presented in IMEKO, 2023.
    Published
  2. Manuel Vaquero; Susana Alonso; Ethel Allué; Marcos García-Díez; Bàrbara Mas; Jordi Nadal; Anna Rufà. "Tendencias de cambio en la fabricación de útiles líticos al final del Paleolítico Superior: el caso del Molí del Salt.". Paper presented in Workshop: Las facies microlaminares del final del Paleolítico en el Mediterráneo ibérico y el valle del Ebro, Vilafranca (Castellón), 2018.
    Published
  3. Rosell, Jordi; Blasco, Ruth; Rivals, Florent; Chacón, Maria Gema; Picin, Andrea; Arilla, Maite; Rufà, Anna; et al. "El nen de Moià: un nou repte en la recerca de la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Moianès)". Paper presented in IV Jornades d'Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central, Solsona, 2016.
    Published
  4. Jordi Rosell; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; María Gema Chacón; Eneko Iriarte; Juan Manuel López-García; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; et al. "Els óssos hibernen, els neandertals passen: Noves dades sobre els desplaçaments per la Catalunya Central dels grups humans del Paleolític mig a partir dels resultats de les coves del Toll i de les Teixoneres (Moià, Bages)". Paper presented in III Jornades d'Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central, Roda de Ter (Barcelona), 2014.
    Published
  5. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Jordi Rosell; Florent Rivals. "Un plato más en el menú. El conjunto de lepóridos del nivel III de la cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona, MIS 3) como ejemplo de aportación mixta". Paper presented in II Jornades d'arqueozoologia del Museu de Prehistòria de València, Valencia, 2013.
    Published
  6. Jordi Rosell; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; Edgard Camarós; Maite Arilla; Jordi Fàbregas; Anna Rufà; Carlos Sánchez-Hernández. "Amagant les proves: Superposicions de l'activitat de carnívors i Neandertals a la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Bages)". Paper presented in II Jornades d'Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central, Vic (Barcelona), 2012.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Filipe, Leonor; Rufà, Anna; Belmiro, Joana; Cascalheira, João; Gonçalves, Célia. "Interpreting fire structure use through mammal remains: preliminary results from the Cabeço da Amoreira shell midden". Paper presented in 64th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Pizarro-Monzo, Marcos; Rosell, Jordi; Rufà, Anna; Rivals, Florent; Blasco, Ruth. "A deep learning-based taphonomical approach to distinguish the modifying agent in the Late Pleistocene site of Toll Cave (Barcelona, Spain)". Historical Biology (2023): 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2242370.
    10.1080/08912963.2023.2242370
  2. Rufà, Anna; Martin, Célia; Laroulandie, Véronique. Corresponding author: Rufà, Anna. "Searching for raptor feathers and talons: Results of an experimental approach". Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française (2023):
    Open access • Accepted
  3. Filipe, Leonor; Costa, Cláudia; Belmiro, Joana; Rufà, Anna; Gonçalves, Célia. "Mamíferos de pequeño, médio e grande porte do sitio do Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal) / Small, médium and large mammals from Cabeço da Amoreira site (Muge, Portugal)". Revista de Salvaterra de Magos (2023): 89-110. https://www.calameo.com/read/0074533361bae6e537429.
    Published
  4. Bañuls-Cardona, Sandra; Blasco, Ruth; Rosell, Jordi; Rufà, Anna; Vallverdú, Josep; Rivals, Florent. Corresponding author: Bañuls-Cardona, Sandra. "New quantitative method for dental wear analysis of small mammals". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): 22231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26705-x.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-022-26705-x
  5. Rufà, Anna; Blasco, Ruth; Menschel, Melissa; Pokines, James T.. Corresponding author: Rufà, Anna. "The avian remains from El Juyo, Lower Magdalenian Cantabrian Spain". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 46 (2022): 103713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103713.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103713
  6. Uzunidis, Antigone; Rufà, Anna; Blasco, Ruth; Rosell, Jordi; Brugal, Jean-Philip; Texier, Pierre-Jean; Rivals, Florent. Corresponding author: Uzunidis, Antigone. "Speciated mechanism in Quaternary cervids (Cervus and Capreolus) on both sides of the Pyrenees: a multidisciplinary approach". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): 20200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24684-7.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-022-24684-7
  7. Álvarez-Fernández, Esteban; Martín-Jarque, Sergio; Portero, Rodrigo; Vadillo Conesa, Margarita; Martínez-Villa, Alberto; Teresa Aparicio, Mª; Armenteros, Ildefonso; et al. Corresponding author: Álvarez-Fernández, Esteban. "La Cuevona de Avín (Avín, Asturias, North Spain): A new Late Pleistocene site in the lower valley of the River Güeña". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 45 (2022): 103591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103591.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103591
  8. M. Fernández-García; J. M. López-García; A. Royer; C. Lécuyer; F. Rivals; A. Rufà; R. Blasco; J. Rosell. Corresponding author: M. Fernández-García. "New insights in Neanderthal palaeoecology using stable oxygen isotopes preserved in small mammals as palaeoclimatic tracers in Teixoneres Cave (Moià, northeastern Iberia)". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14 (2022): 106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01564-9.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s12520-022-01564-9
  9. Jordi Rosell Ardèvol; Ruth Blasco López; Florent Rivals; Anna Rufà. "Remors de passats obscurs i distants. La història dels neandertals a les Coves del Toll (Moià, Moianès)". Espeleocat 13 (2021):
    Published
  10. Anna Rufà; Véronique Laroulandie. Corresponding author: Anna Rufà. "Unravelling the Taphonomic Stories of Bird Bones from the Middle Pleistocene Layer VIII of Grotte Vaufrey, France". Quaternary 4 30 (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/4/4/30.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/quat4040030
  11. Zilio, Leandro; Hammond, Heidi; Karampaglidis, Theodoros; Sánchez-Romero, Laura; Blasco, Ruth; Rivals, Florent; Rufà, Anna; et al. "Examining Neanderthal and carnivore occupations of Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain) using archaeostratigraphic and intra-site spatial analysis". Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83741-9.
    Published • 10.1038/s41598-021-83741-9
  12. Blasco, Ruth; Arilla, Maite; Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Andrés, Míriam; Ramírez-Pedraza, Iván; Rufà, Anna; Rivals, Florent; Rosell, Jordi. "Who peeled the bones? An actualistic and taphonomic study of axial elements from the Toll Cave Level 4, Barcelona, Spain". Quaternary Science Reviews 250 (2020): 106661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106661.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106661
  13. Rufà, Anna; Laroulandie, Véronique. "Carnívoros y carroñeros. Una nueva visión sobre la depredación de los lobos sobre las aves carroñeras y su implicación en el registro arqueológico". ArkeoGazte. Revista de Arqueología 10 (2020): 127-140.
    Published
  14. Goizane Alonso; Anna Rufà; Maite Arilla; Ruth Blasco. "Taphonomic signature of the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) on the avian accumulation of Cau del Duc (Lleida, Spain)". Historical Biology 32 10 (2020): 1320-1333. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1587614.
    Published • 10.1080/08912963.2019.1587614
  15. Maite Arilla; Anna Rufà; Jordi Rosell; Ruth Blasco. "Small carnivores' cave-dwelling: neo-taphonomic study of a badger (Meles meles) sett and its archaeological implications". Historical Biology 32 7 (2020): 951-965. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.1558449.
    Published • 10.1080/08912963.2018.1558449
  16. Ochando, Juan; Carrión, José S.; Blasco, Ruth; Rivals, Florent; Rufà, Anna; Demuro, Martina; Arnold, Lee J.; et al. "Neanderthals in a highly diverse, mediterranean-Eurosiberian forest ecotone: The pleistocene pollen record of Teixoneres Cave, northeastern Spain". Quaternary Science Reviews 241 (2020): 106429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106429.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106429
  17. Anna Rufà; Goizane Alonso; Ruth Blasco; Marián Cueto; Edgard Camarós. "Testing the damage caused by a golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ) on a primate skull: A taphonomic case study of the bone damage observed after a simulated predatory attack". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 30 6 (2020): 789-797. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2909.
    Published • 10.1002/oa.2909
  18. Ochando, Juan; Carrión, José S.; Blasco, Ruth; Rivals, Florent; Rufà, Anna; Amorós, Gabriela; Munuera, Manuel; Fernández, Santiago; Rosell, Jordi. "The Late Quaternary pollen sequence of Toll Cave, a palaeontological site with evidence of human activities in northeastern Spain". Quaternary International 554 (2020): 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.048.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.048
  19. Anna Rufà; Véronique Laroulandie. "Prey size as a critical factor for bird bone taphonomy in Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) pellets". Scientific Reports 9 19200 (2019): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55721-7.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-019-55721-7
  20. Anna Rufà; Manuel Vaquero. "Making different things, but eating the same food? Correlation between cultural and subsistence changes during the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula". Quaternary Science Reviews 184 (2018): 114-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.004.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.004
  21. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Thierry Roger; Mathieu Rué; Camille Daujeard. "A rallying point for different predators: the avian record from a Late Pleistocene sequence of Grotte des Barasses II (Balazuc, Ardèche, France)". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10 (2018): 1459-1476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0469-6.
    Published • 10.1007/s12520-017-0469-6
  22. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Jordi Rosell; Manuel Vaquero. "What is going on at the Molí del Salt site? A zooarchaeological approach to the last hunter-gatherers from South Catalonia". Historical Biology 30 (2018): 786-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1315685.
    Published • 10.1080/08912963.2017.1315685
  23. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Jordi Rosell; Manuel Vaquero; Susana Alonso. "La importància del conill (Oryctolagus cuniculus) en la dieta humana dels últims caçadors-recol·lectors al sud de Catalunya". Podall 6-7 (2018): 41-63. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6453461.
    Published
  24. Jordi Rosell; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; M. Gema Chacón; Maite Arilla; Edgard Camarós; Anna Rufà; et al. "A resilient landscape at Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3; Moià, Barcelona, Spain): The Neanderthals as disrupting agent". Quaternary International 435 A (2017): 195-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.077.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.077
  25. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; Jordi Rosell. "Who eats whom? Taphonomic analysis of the avian record from the Middle Paleolithic site of Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain)". Quaternary International 421 (2016): 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.055.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.055
  26. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Thierry Roger; Marie-Hélène Moncel. "What is the taphonomic agent responsible for the avian accumulation? An approach from the Middle and early Late Pleistocene assemblages from Payre and Abri des Pêcheurs (Ardèche, France)". Quaternary International 421 (2016): 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.016.
    Published • 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.016
  27. Ruth Blasco; Jordi Rosell; Anna Rufà; Antonio Sánchez Marco; Clive Finlayson. "Pigeons and choughs, a usual resource for the Neanderthals in Gibraltar". Quaternary International 421 (2016): 62-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.040.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.040
  28. Sahra Talamo; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; Andrea Picin; M Gema Chacón; Eneko Iriarte; Juan Manuel López-García; et al. "The Radiocarbon Approach to Neanderthals in a Carnivore Den Site: a Well-Defined Chronology for Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain)". Radiocarbon 582 2 (2016): 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2015.19.
    Published • 10.1017/rdc.2015.19
  29. Anna Rufà; Ruth Blasco; Florent Rivals; Jordi Rosell. "Leporids as a potential resource for predators (hominins, mammalian carnivores, raptors): An example of mixed contribution from level III of Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3, Barcelona, Spain)". Comptes Rendus - Palevol 13 8 (2014): 665-680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2014.06.001.
    Published • 10.1016/j.crpv.2014.06.001
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rufà, Anna. "El papel de las pequeñas presas en la dieta humana del Paleolítico medio y superior. Una visión diacrónica desde el valle del Ródano al arco mediterráneo". PhD, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2017.
  2. Rufà, Anna. "El consumo de pequeñas presas durante el Paleolítico medio. El caso de los lepóridos del nivel III de la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona, España).". Master, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2013.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 The different role of carnivores in anthropogenic contexts: a taphonomical approach from the Toll and Teixoneres caves (Barcelona, Spain) 29th EAA Annual Meeting
(Belfast, Ireland)
2023 Unrevealing neandertal lifestyles at Teixoneres cave: an example of a multi- and interdisciplinary approach applied to a Middle Palaeolithic site 29th EAA Annual Meeting
(Belfast, Ireland)
2023 Logistical or foraging mobility? Neanderthal territorial management strategies in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula 29th EAA Annual Meeting
(Belfast, Ireland)
2023 Raw materials: Can they be the key to understanding the mobility patterns of Neanderthals? The case of Teixoneres cave 29th EAA Annual Meeting
(Belfast, Ireland)
2023 Poster: Contribuyendo a identificar los patrones de ocupación en la Cova de les Teixoneres; una aproximación a partir de los datos zooarqueológicos de la unidad III VII Reunió Oikos de Bioarqueologia
(Girona, Spain)
2023 Poster: Interpreting fire structure use through mammal remains: preliminary results from the Cabeço da Amoreira shell midden 64th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
2023 Poster: How to identify standards of Neanderthal short-term occupations in cave environments? Zooarchaeological and taphonomic preliminary results of Teixoneres Cave unit III 64th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
2023 Red and Roe Deer on both sides of the Pyrenees: Frontiers or not? 3rd Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists
2022/06/08 Macaques in the taphonomic mirror: Experimental approach to environmental and behavioural scenarios in human evolution 9th TAPHOS- 6th ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group (TWG)
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
2022/06/02 Aportes tafonómicos para el estudio de las aves y su papel en el registro arqueológico Primeras Jornadas sobre Estudios Arqueozoológicos
Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
2022/04/20 Poster presentation: Memories hidden in faeces. Taphonomic story of bone contents from lynx coprolites 63rd Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin, Germany)
2021/09/07 Cave bears in the menu: hunting or scavenging at the Toll Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain) UISPP XIX World Congress
Moulay Ismail University (Meknes, Morocco)
2021/06/24 Poster presentation: The features of Neanderthal occupations. The zooarchaeological study of Teixoneres Cave Unit III to create a statistical model to define the duration of human occupations during the Middle Paleolithic 2nd Iberian Zooarchaeology Meeting
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2021/06/05 Taphonomic story of the bird remains from the Middle Palaeolithic of Grotte Vaufrey (layer VIII) 10th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group
Museum of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)
2021/05/31 À la recherche des plumes et des griffes de rapaces. Résultats d'une approche expérimentale 29e Congrès Préhistorique de France
Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
2021/03/09 La taille est-elle importante ? Description des altérations taphonomiques sur les os d'oiseaux produites par le Hibou grand-duc (Bubo bubo) / Does size matter? Unravelling taphonomic alterations on bird bones produced by the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) Colloque hommage à Émilie Campmas « Sociétés humaines et environnements dans la zone circumméditerranéenne du Pléistocène au début de l’Holocène »
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
2021/03/09 Poster presentation: Les oiseaux charognards prédatés. L'exemple du parc « les loups du Gévaudan » / The predated scavenging birds. Example of "les loups du Gévaudan" park. Colloque hommage à Émilie Campmas « Sociétés humaines et environnements dans la zone circumméditerranéenne du Pléistocène au début de l¿Holocène »
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
2019/11/18 Poster presentation: An approximation to the neanderthals lithic procurement at Teixoneres cave (Moià, NE Iberian Peninsula). 12th International Symposium on Knappable Materials
Hugarian National Museum (Budapest, Hungary)
2018/10/05 El final del Paleolítico en el sur de Cataluña: el Molí del Salt (Vimbodí i Poblet, Tarragona) Las facies microlaminares del final del Paleolítico en el Mediterráneo ibérico y el valle del Ebro
SERP - Universitat de Barcelona (Vilafranca de Castellón , Spain)
2018/04/03 Inside the secrets of Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain): An example of a multidisciplinary approach applied to a Neanderthal site 60th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (Tarragona, Spain)
2018/04/03 Poster presentation: The role of small prey in Neanderthal contexts: the case of Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3, Barcelona, Spain) 60th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (Tarragona, Spain)
2016/10/14 El Nen de Moià: un nou repte en la recerca de les Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Moianès) IV Jornades d’Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central
Museu de Solsona (Solsona, Spain)
2016/09/07 What is going on at the Molí del Salt site? A zooarchaeological approach to the last hunter-gatherers from South Catalonia IVth ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group meeting “General to Specific Quaternary Taphonomy”
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France)
2015/09/24 Poster presentation: Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain) within the crossroads of different predators. Taphonomical implications on an avian record from early Late Pleistocene I International Congress “The birds in Natural History, Prehistory and History (origin, evolution and domestication)”
Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09/24 Poster presentation: Breaking the bones. Fresh breakage on rabbit bones: an experimental approach 5th Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum (PZAF2015)
institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (Tarragona, Spain)
2014/10/17 Els óssos hivernen, els neandertals passen: noves dades sobre els desplaçaments per la Catalunya Central dels grups humans del Paleolític mig a partir dels resultats de les Coves del Toll i de les Teixoneres (Moià, Bages) III Jornades d’Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central
Museu Arqueològic de l’Esquerda (Roda de Ter, Spain)
2014/09/01 Who is bringing birds? An approach from the Middle and early Late Pleistocene accumulations from Payre and Abri des Pêcheurs (Ardèche, France) UISPP XVII World Congress
Fundación Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)
2014/09/01 New interdisciplinary data to understand the short-term occupations at Teixoneres cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain) UISPP XVII World Congress
Fundación Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)
2014/04/22 New interdisciplinary data to understand the short-term occupations at Teixoneres cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain) 56th Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (Brunswick, Germany)
2013/12/03 Un plato más en el menú. El consumo de lepóridos en el nivel III (MIS 3) de la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona) II Jornades d’Arqueozoologia
Museu de Prehistòria de València (Valencia, Spain)
2013/05/07 L'anàlisi de petites preses com una aportació als estudis arqueològics. El cas dels lepòrids de la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Barcelona) VI Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores en Arqueología
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Geografia i Història (Barcelona, Spain)
2012/12/13 Amagant les proves: superposicions de l’activitat de carnívors i Neandertals a la Cova de les Teixoneres (Moià, Bages) II Jornades d’Arqueologia de la Catalunya Central
Museu Episcopal de Vic (Vic, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current Exploração das estratégias de subsistência no concheiro mesolítico do Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Arqueologia (Master)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2021/11/01 - Current Distinctive features of Neanderthal occupation events. Modelling of occupation events from the case study of Teixoneres Cave Unit III
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Decréscimo do tamanho do veado ibérico durante o Neolítico e Calcolítico
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020/01/20 - 2020/06/16 Utilisation des plumes de grands rapaces par les chasseurs-collecteurs du Paléolithique: approche expérimentale
Co-supervisor
 Mémoire de Master (Master)
Université de Bordeaux, France

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2013 - Current Excavations at Toll and Teixoneres caves (Moià, Barcelona, Spain). Logistic management. (2013/08) Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2024/05/03 - 2024/05/05 Spring Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) (2024 - 2024)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2023/04/26 - 2023/04/28 Training in Frontier Archaeology (TIFA) symposium “Advanced Methods in Zooarchaeology” (2023 - 2023)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Preparation and dynamisation of activities for children related to prehistoric archaeology in the ICArEHB stand. (2022 - 2022)
2015/09/24 - 2015/09/26 Co-organization of the Congress “5th Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum (PZAF2015)” (2015/09/24 - 2015/09/26)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2013/05/07 - 2013/05/11 Co-organization of the symposium “Trabajo en equipo y ciencia. La multidisciplinariedad como una nueva forma de hacer arqueología” within the VI Jornadas de Investigadores en Arqueología (JIA) (2013/05/07 - 2013/05/11)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2009 - Current Excavation at Molí del Salt rock shelter (Tarragona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2007 - Current Excavation at Toll and Teixoneres caves (Barcelona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2023/09/27 - 2023/09/29 Trainer: Bone taphonomy as a tool for understanding past human-animal interactions
Seminar
 iNEAL COST Action Training School: “Advancing Into Palaeolithic Archaeology: Best Practices In Nultisiciplinary Studies”,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2022/10/12 - 2022/10/16 Preparation and dynamisation of activities for children related to prehistoric archaeology in the ICArEHB stand.
Festival
 FIC.A - Festival Internacional de Ciência
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2022/05/04 - 2022/05/05 Participation in the UAlg Open Days for high school students.
Exhibition
 UAlg Open Days
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2021/10/12 - 2021/10/17 Preparation and dynamisation of activities for children related to prehistoric archaeology in the ICArEHB stand. FIC.A - Festival Internacional de Ciência
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Excavation at Llenes cave (Lleida, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2013 - 2014 Excavation at Gorham's Cave Complex (Gibraltar, United Kingdom)
Other
The Gibraltar Museum, United Kingdom
2012/06/11 - 2012/06/11 Presentation on preservation projects. Conservation: museums v. sites. The case of Les Eyzies.
Seminar
 Erasmus Intensive Program "Prehistory at the crossroads of Science and Conservation”
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
2008 - 2012 Excavation at Atapuerca sites: Gran Dolina and Sima del Elefante (Burgos, Spain)
Other
Fundación Atapuerca, Spain
2011 - 2011 Excavation at Orce sites: Fuente Nueva 3 and Barranco León 5 (Granada, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2009 - 2011 Excavation at Valdavara cave (Lugo, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2007 - 2009 Excavation at Abric Romaní rock-shelter (Barcelona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2007 - 2009 Excavation at La Boella sites: El Forn and La Mina (Tarragona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2006 - 2006 Excavation at El Cavet site (Tarragona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain
2006 - 2006 Excavation at La Cativera rock-shelter (Tarragona, Spain)
Other
Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Member
2021 - Current Hugo Obermaier Society (HOG) Member
2020/01/29 - Current Association Émilie Campmas Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/04 - Current Team member of the ICArEHB Outreach Committee. In charge of organising and managing outreach activities for targeted audience.
Member
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2021/11 - Current Team member in charge of the organisation of the ICArEHB Dialogues.
Member
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - 2024 Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Scientific writing (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Zooarqueologia (Mestrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Zooarqueologia (Mestrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2015 - 2018 Prehistory of Iberian Peninsula in the Degree in History Prehistory of Iberian Peninsula (Licence) Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
2013 - 2016 Practical session to students from the Degree in History Human Evolution and Culture (Licence) Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/12 - Current Expert listed as a potential evaluator for the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI)
Evaluator
 Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain
2022/10 - 2022/12 Evaluation of applications and selection of candidates for the call for applications for technical assistance in the field of neotaphonomic studies, in the framework of the research project RYC2019-026386-I.
Evaluator
 Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Spain Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
2022/05 - 2022/07 Call for applications for a research grant (BI-M) under the project 101045506-FINISTERRA-ERC-2021-COG
Evaluator
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal European Research Council

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/11/06 - 2023/12/16 Supervisor of the postdoctoral research stay Mariana Nabais
2023/01/10 - 2023/03/16 Supervisor of the PhD trainee student Julián Mignino
2018/03 - 2018/07 Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy Valentina Lubrano

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Journal Referee: Quaternary Environments and Humans
2022/07 - Current Review Editor: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
2022 - Current Journal Referee: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
2021 - Current Journal referee: Trabajos de Prehistoria
2019 - Current Journal referee: Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
2018 - Current Journal referee: Scientific Reports
2017 - Current Journal referee: Historical Biology
2016 - Current Journal referee: Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment
2015 - Current Journal referee: Quaternary International
2019 - 2019 Journal referee: Journal of Human Evolution
2019 - 2019 Journal referee: Ecology and Evolution
2018 - 2018 Journal referee: Comptes Rendus Palevol
Distinctions

Award

2011 Extraordinary Final Studies Prize
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Title

2022 Acreditació de Professorat Lector
Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Cataluna, Spain
2021 Maître de Conférences
Conseil National des Universités, France