Arturo
Cueva Temprana is a PhD. student currently working under the Stone Tools, Diet and Sociality Project (SDS)
coordinated by Dr. Julio Mercader at the University of Calgary with the
collaboration of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and
several institutions from Tanzania, Canada and Spain.
His
PhD project, supervised by Dr. Michael Petraglia and Dr. Julio Mercader, is focused
on the technological evolution of Olduvai Gorge’s Bed I to Bed IV lithic assemblages,
with the aim of performing diachronic comparisons by means of geometric morphometry
and knapping sequence reconstructions.
In
addition, his main research interests and expertise are related with the
evolution of human cognition, technological complexity, archaeological theory
and experimental archaeology.
Graduated
in History at Universidad de Oviedo in 2015, he obtained his Master's degree in
Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution at Universitat Rovira I Virgili in
2017. Between 2017 and 2019 he worked with the Catalan Institute of Human
Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) in several projects, such as the
Early Pleistocene site of El Barranc de la Boella, before joining the Max
Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
During his career he has participated
in several fieldworks in Spain, Mongolia and Africa.
Since 2018 he is a
member of the Atapuerca Research Project.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Vanwezer, N., Breitenbach, S. F., Gázquez, F., Louys, J., Kononov, A., Sokol'nikov, D., Erdenedalai, A., Burget-Coca, A., Picin, A., Cueva-Temprana, A., ... & Petraglia, M. D. (2021). Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia. Quaternary International.
Mercader, J., Akuku, P., Boivin, N., Bugumba, R., Bushozi,
P., Camacho, A., Carter, T., Clarke, S., Cueva-Temprana,
A., et al. Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable
environments ~ 2 million years ago (2021). Nature Communications 12, 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2
Lombao, D., Cueva-Temprana, A., Mosquera, M., Morales,
J.I. (2020). A new
approach to measure reduction intensity on cores and tools on cobbles: the
Volumetric Reconstruction Method. Archaeological
and Anthropological Sciences, 12, 222.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01154-7
Fernández-Marchena, J.
L. Rabuñal,
J. R., Mateo-Lomba, P., Lombao, D., Hernando, R., Cueva-Temprana,
A., & Cazalla, I. (2020). Rainbow
in the dark. The identification of diagnostic projectile impact features on
rock crystal. Journal of Archaeological
Science: Reports, 31, 102315.
Lombao, D., Cueva-Temprana, A., Rabuñal, J.R., Morales,
J. I., & Mosquera, M. (2019). The effects of blank size and knapping
strategy on the estimation of core’s reduction intensity. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(10), 5445-5461.
Cueva-Temprana,
A.,
Lombao, D., Morales, J. I., Geribàs, N., & Mosquera, M. (2019). Gestures during knapping: a two-perspective approach
to Pleistocene Technologies. Lithic Technology, 44(2),
74-89.
Lombao, D., Cueva-Temprana, A.,
Figols, M. G., & Martínez, M. M. (2018). De la palabra al gesto: el papel
de diferentes mecanismos de transmisión social en la adquisición del método de
talla alternante. Butlleti Arqueològic,
(40), 25-31.
Cueva-Temprana,
A.,
Lombao, D., Armengol, N. G., & Martínez, M. M. (2018). El catálogo
conductual de la talla lítica y sus aplicaciones a la tecnología del
Paleolítico Inferior. Butlleti
Arqueològic, (40), 19-24.
Cueva-Temprana,
A.
(2016). Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras
industrias líticas. Panta Rei: revista
de ciencia y didáctica de la historia, (6), 9-18.
