Lawrence Straus
Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor (Emeritus)
Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research
Archaeology
- At UNM since
- 1975
- Email:
- lstraus@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-6688
- Curriculum vitae
Recent Courses:
- World Archeology (ANTH 220)
- Stone Age Europe (ANTH 325/525)
- African Prehistory (ANTH 327/527)
- Seminar: What are “Modern” Humans? (ANTH 497/597)
- Seminar: Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (ANTH 577)
- Proposal Writing (ANTH 675)
Education:
BA (Honors), University of Chicago (1971)
MA, University of Chicago (1972)
PhD, University of Chicago (1975)
Dissertation: “A Study of the Solutrean in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain”
Research:
Recent Publications:
2019 The Upper Paleolithic Sequence in El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria): an overview. Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101998 (with M.González Morales).
2019 Birds of prey and humans in prehistoric Europe:a view from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24: 244-252 (with B. Demarchi, S. Presslee, I. Gutiérrez-Zugasti, M. González-Morales, A.B.Marín-Arroyo & R. Fischer).
2019 Sources of the ochres associated with the Lower Magdalenian “Red Lady” human burial and rock art in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 23: 265-280 (with R. Seva, M.D. Landete, J. Juan, C. Biete & M. González Morales).
2019 Landscapes, climate change and forager mobility in the Upper Paleolithic of northern Spain. Quaternary International 515: 176-187. doi:10.1016jquaint.2018.04.037 (with G.A. Clark & C.M. Barton
2019 A Life in the pits: reflections on a half-century of doing Stone Age archeology. Quaternary International 515: 4-11
2019 Magdalenian Chrono-stratigraphic Correlations and Cultural Connections between Cantabrian Spain and Southwest France...and Beyond. Séances de la Société Préhistorique Française. Paris. (M. Langlais, co-editor).
2019 The Magdalenian sequence in El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria) in the context of northern Spain and the broader Franco-Cantabrian region. In Magdalenian Chrono-stratigraphic Correlations and Cultural Connections between Cantabrian Spain and Southwest France...and Beyond. Séances de la Société Préhistorique Française, L.G. Straus & M. Langlais, editors (with M. González Morales)(in press).
2018 El Mirón Cave: Geography & Culture. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.), C. Smith,ed., Springer, New York (with M.González Morales)(revised & expanded entry). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1 2247-2
2018 Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. PLOS-One https:doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194708 (with A.B.Marín, J.Ríos, J.Jones, M.de la Rasilla, M.González Morales, M. Richards, J. Altuna, K. Mariezkurrena & D. Ocio).
2018 New dates for the Solutrean and Magdalenian of Cantabrian Spain:El Mirón and La Riera Caves. Radiocarbon doi:10.1017/RDC.2018.14 (with M.R. González Morales)
2018 Deciphering archaeological palimpsests with bone micro-fragments from the Lower Magdalenian of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain). Historical Biology 30(6): 730-742 (with J-M.Geiling, A.B.Marín and M.González Morales) http://dx.doi/10.1080/08912963.2017.1385611
2018 A Possible structure in the Lower Magdalenian horizon in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria,Spain). In Multas per Gentes et Multa per Saecula: Amici Magistro et Collegae suo Ioanni Christopho Kozłowski Dedicant. (jubilee volume for Janusz K. Kozłowski), edited by P. Valde-Nowak, K. Sobczyk, M. Nowak and J. Żrałka. Jagiellonian University/Alter Publishing, Krakow), pp. 157-166 (with M.R.González Morales).
2018 The Lower Magdalenian osseous industry from Level 17 in El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain) (with J-M. Geiling & M.R. González Morales) Zephyrus 81: 15-30.
2018 La Riera Cave: Geography & Culture. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.), C. Smith, ed., Springer, New York (with G.A. Clark) (revised entry). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1 1327-2
2018 Le Solutréen dans l’Espagne Cantabrique. In Les Solutréens, edited by M. Otte. Errance, Paris, pp. 71-86.
2018 Changing environments during the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the eastern Cantabrian region (Spain): direct evidence from stable isotope studies on ungulate bones. Scientific Reports 8:14842 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-3243-0 (with J. Jones, M. Richards, J. Altuna, K. Mariezkurrena and A.B.Marín-Arroyo).
2018 The Upper Paleolithic of Iberia. Trabajos de Prehistoria 75: 9-51.
2017 Lower Magdalenian lithic raw material provisioning: a diachronic view from El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 794-803 (2018) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/jasrep.2017.03.015 (with L.M. Fontes & M.González Morales).
2017 Environmental & cultural changes across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Cantabrian Spain. Special issue of Quaternary International edited by E. Robinson & F. Riede http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.005 Vol. 465(B), pp. 222-233 (2018).
2017 The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Cantabrian Spaim: current reflections on culture change. Special issue of Journal of Quaternary Science edited by N. Bicho and J. Cascalheira doi:10.1002/jqs.2943 Vol. 33(3), pp. 346-352 (2018).
2017 El Mirón Cave (Ramales, Cantabria, Spain). Encylopedia of Geoarchaeology, edited by A. S. Gilbert. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 210-211 (with M.R.González Morales).
2016 El Mirón Cave (Ramales, Cantabria, Spain) date list V: Middle Paleolithic and Lower Magdalenian. Radiocarbon 58: 943-945 (with M. González Morales) doi:10.1017/RDC.2016.84
2016 A spatial distribution study of faunal remains f rom two Lower Magdalenian occupation levels in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (London) 26 (1) article 4, pp. 1-16 http://doi.org/10.5334/pia-477 (with J.M. Geiling, M.González Morales & A.B.Marín-Arroyo)
2016 The Chicago connection in Spanish Paleolithic prehistory. In History of Archaeology : International Perspectives edited by G.Delley, M. Díaz-Andreu, F. Djinjian, V.M. Fernández, A. Guidi, M.A. Kaeser, Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford (Proceedings of the XVII World Congress of the UISPP, Burgos, Spain) , pp. 111-119.
2016 Cores, core-scrapers and bladelet production during the Lower Magdalenian occupations of El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain. Lithic Technology 41: 212-235 (with L.M.Fontes, R. Domingo & M.R. González Morales) doi:10.1080?01977261.1175547
2016 The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature 534:200-205+on-line Extended Data, Figures and Supplementary Materials (with Q.Fu, C.Posth, M.Hajdinjak, M.Peti, S. Malick, D.Fernandes, A.Furtwängler, W.Haak, M.Mayer, A.Mitnik, B.Nickel, A.Peltzer, N. Rohland, V.Slon, I.Lazaridis, M.Lipson, S.Schiffels, P.Skoglund, B.Gely, S.Benazzi, S.Constanin, M.González-Morales, O.T.Molovan, M.Peresani, D.Carmelli, M.Lari, A.Ronchitelli, F.Valentin, D.Coppola, A.Derevianko, D.Grigourescu, C.Neugebauer-Maresch, C.Thevenet, K.Wehreberger, I. Crevecoeur, H.Rougier, P.Semal, C.Cupillard, H.Bocherens, M.Mannino, N.Conard, K.Harvati, V.Moiseyev, D.Drucker, J.Svoboda, R.Pinhasi, J.Kelson, N.Patterson, J.Kraus, S.Pääbo, D.Reich). doi:10.1038/nature17993
2016 Humans confront the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe: reflections on the Solutrean weaponry phenomenon in the broader contexts of technological change and cultural adaptation. In Last Glacial Maximum Prehistory in Northern Eurasia (L.G. Straus, I. Buvit, K. Terry & M.Izuho, eds.), Quaternary International 425:62-68 doi.org/10.1016/jquatint.2016.01.059.
2016 Last Glacial Maximum Prehistory in Northern Eurasia. Special section of Quaternary International vol. 425:1-172 (I. Buvit, K. Terry & M. Izuho, co-editors)(13 articles)
2016 Lithic raw material conveyance and hunter-gatherer mobility during the Lower Magdalenian in Cantabria, Spain. Quateranry International 412: 66-81 (with L.M.Fontes & M. R. González Morales).
2015 The Human occupation of southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum: Solutrean cultural adaptations in France and Iberia. Journal of Anthropological Research 71 465-492.
2015 The Magdalenian human burial of El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain): Introduction, background, discovery and context (with M. González Morales), Journal of Archaeological Science 60: 1-9.
2015 Magdalenian settlement-subsistence systems in Cantabrian Spain. In: Prehisoric Art as Prehistoric Culture: Papers in Honour of Professor Rodrigo de Balbín-Behrmann,), edited by Primitiva.Bueno & Paul Bahn . Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 111-122 (with M. González Morales, A.B. Marín & L.Fontes) .
2015 Magdalenian –age graphic activity associated with the El Mirón Cave human burial (with M. González Morales) , Journal of Archaeological Science 60: 125-133.
2015 Lithic and osseous artifacts from the human burial deposit in El Mirón Cave (with L.Fontes and M. González Morales), Journal of Archaeological Science 60: 99-111.
2015 Radiocarbon dating the Late Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain: El Mirón Cave dates list IV (with M.González Morales, T. Higham, M. Richards & S. Talalmo). Radiocarbon 57:183-188.
2015 “The Red Lady of El Mirón Cave”: Lower Magdalenian Human Burial in Cantabrian Spain. Managing Guest Editor, special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science 60:1-138 (M. González Morales & J.M. Carretero, co-editors) (13 articles).
2015 “The Red Lady of El Mirón”: Lower Magdalenian Life and Death in Oldest Dryas Cantabrian Spain, an overview (with M. González Morales, J.M. Carretero & A.B. Marín-Arroyo), Journal of Archaeological Science 60: 134-137.
2015 Solutrean Studies: Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum in Southwest Europe. Editor, special issue of Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 71, no.4, pp. 465-578 (6 articles).
2015 Microremains from El Mirón Cave human calculus suggest a mixed plant-animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in northern Iberia (with R. Power, D. Salazar-Garcła, M. González Morales & A. Henry), Journal of Archaeological Science 60: 39-46.
2015 Arte parietal asociado al enterramiento magdaleniense de la Cueva del Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria) (with M. González Morales). In Cien Años de Arte Paleolítico, M.S.Corchón & M. Menéndez, eds. Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, pp.89-99 (pub.date, “2014”).