Alejandro Valenzuela
Spanish National Research Council
8 Papers
48 Citations
Alejandro Valenzuela is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Balearic islands & Radiocarbon dating. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications. Previous affiliations of Alejandro Valenzuela include University of Barcelona.
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Papers
Radiocarbon evidence for a prehistoric deliberate translocation: the weasel (Mustela nivalis) of Mallorca
TL;DR: Radiocarbon evidence indicates that the translocation of the weasel to Mallorca occurred in Late Prehistory, the first documented case of the translocated of a wild carnivorous mammal to the Gymnesic Islands in prehistoric times.
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Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca
Alejandro Valenzuela,Karis Baker,Ruth F. Carden,Jane Evans,Thomas Higham,A. Rus Hoelzel,Angela L. Lamb,Richard Madgwick,Holly Miller,Josep Antoni Alcover,Miguel Ángel Cau,Naomi Sykes +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a multidisciplinary investigation (combining the zooarchaeological evidence with AMS radiocarbon dating, isotope analyses and preliminary aDNA results) from a set of remains recovered from archaeological sites on Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean).
Documenting introductions: The earliest evidence for the presence of dog (canis familiaris linnaeus 1758) in the prehistory of the Balearic Islands
TL;DR: In this article, the earliest evidence for the presence of dogs in the early prehistory of the Balearic Islands was analyzed based on direct AMS 14C dates from selected dog bones obtained in archaeological contexts.
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The chronology of the introduction of two species of Martes (Carnivora, Mustelidae) on the Western Mediterranean Islands: first direct radiocarbon evidence
TL;DR: The first direct radiocarbon evidence of the introduction of two species of the genus Martes on two Western Mediterranean islands is provided, and the dated bones point to a Roman introduction of the Pine Marten to Mallorca.
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The impact of Roman conquest on the pattern of livestock exploitation on the Balearic Islands
TL;DR: Faunal remains from the two main islands, focusing on the period spanning from the Iron Age to the Roman transition, reveal the changes experienced in species composition and body size in animal husbandry.
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