Mireia Pedro
University of Barcelona
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Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2015
Iñigo Olalde; Hannes Schroeder; Marcela Sandoval-Velasco; Lasse Vinner; Irene Lobon; Oscar Ramirez; Sergi Civit; Pablo García Borja; Domingo C. Salazar-García; Sahra Talamo; Josep Maria Fullola; Francesc Xavier Oms; Mireia Pedro; Pablo Martínez; Montserrat Sanz; Joan Daura; João Zilhão; Tomas Marques-Bonet; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Carles Lalueza-Fox
The spread of farming out of the Balkans and into the rest of Europe followed two distinct routes: An initial expansion represented by the Impressa and Cardial traditions, which followed the Northern Mediterranean coastline; and another expansion represented by the LBK (Linearbandkeramik) tradition, which followed the Danube River into Central Europe. Although genomic data now exist from samples representing the second migration, such data have yet to be successfully generated from the initial Mediterranean migration. To address this, we generated the complete genome of a 7,400-year-old Cardial individual (CB13) from Cova Bonica in Vallirana (Barcelona), as well as partial nuclear data from five others excavated from different sites in Spain and Portugal. CB13 clusters with all previously sequenced early European farmers and modern-day Sardinians. Furthermore, our analyses suggest that both Cardial and LBK peoples derived from a common ancient population located in or around the Balkan Peninsula. The Iberian Cardial genome also carries a discernible hunter–gatherer genetic signature that likely was not acquired by admixture with local Iberian foragers. Our results indicate that retrieving ancient genomes from similarly warm Mediterranean environments such as the Near East is technically feasible.
Naturwissenschaften | 2010
Juan Manuel López-García; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Ethel Allué; Sandra Bañuls; Amelia Bargalló; Patricia Martín; Juan Ignacio Morales; Mireia Pedro; Anna Rodríguez; Alex Solé; F. Xavier Oms
A refugium is generally understood as an area where temperate species survive cold periods, such as the Iberian, Italian, or Balkan Peninsulas in Europe. Strictly speaking, this definition refers to what is known as a glacial refugium. However, there are various types of lesser-known refugia such as the interglacial refugium, which denotes a mountainous region at low latitudes, such as the Pyrenees, where species adapted to the cold survive during interstadial periods. The small-vertebrate association from the sequence of Cova Colomera, which is located on the southern face of the Pyrenees and contains the final cold spell of the Late Pleistocene and the beginnings of the temperate period in which we currently find ourselves (the Holocene), could constitute the first fossil evidence of such an interglacial refugium, thus providing new paleoecological data on the phenomenon.
Journal of Field Archaeology | 2017
F. Xavier Oms; Joan Daura; Montserrat Sanz; Susana Mendiela; Mireia Pedro; Pablo Martínez
ABSTRACT Excavations at Cova Bonica (Barcelona, Spain) have revealed 98 human remains, grouped into five age clusters and corresponding to a minimum of six non-articulated individuals. The remains are clearly associated with Cardial pottery, lithic artifacts, and ornaments suggesting an Early Neolithic horizon. The radiocarbon dating of three human individuals provides a reliable attribution to this period, with a range between ca. 5470 and 5220 cal b.c., identifying it as one of the few assemblages of human remains directly dated from this period. These remains correspond to a rare collective human inhumation and join a growing body of samples from the Cardial Neolithic, which is providing some of the important sites for the study of population movement and the spread of Neolithization along the western Mediterranean coast.
Quaternary Science Reviews | 2015
Joan Daura; Montserrat Sanz; Ramon Julià; D. García-Fernández; Joan J. Fornós; Manuel Vaquero; Ethel Allué; Juan Manuel López-García; Hugues Alexandre Blain; José E. Ortiz; Trinidad Torres; Rosa M. Albert; À. Rodríguez-Cintas; A. Sánchez-Marco; E. Cerdeño; Anne R. Skinner; Y. Asmeron; Victor J. Polyak; Miguel Garcés; Lee J. Arnold; Martina Demuro; A.W.G. Pike; I. Euba; R.F. Rodríguez; A.S. Yagüe; Lucía Villaescusa; Sandra Gómez; Ángel Rubio; Mireia Pedro; Josep Maria Fullola
Journal of Quaternary Science | 2014
Juan Manuel López-García; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Maria Bennàsar; Josep Antoni Alcover; Sandra Bañuls-Cardona; Mónica Fernández-García; Marta Fontanals; Patricia Martín; Juan Ignacio Morales; Laura Muñoz; Mireia Pedro; Josep Maria Vergès
Trabajos De Prehistoria | 2009
F. Xavier Oms; M. Àngels Petit; Ethel Allué; Amèlia Bargalló; Hugues Alexandre Blain; Juan Manuel López-García; Patricia Martín; Juan Ignacio Morales; Mireia Pedro; Anna Rodríguez; Alex Solé
UNICUM | 2008
Josep M. Fullola; Víctor M. Guerrero; M. Àngels Petit; Manuel Calvo; Assumpció Malgosa; Núria Armentano; Pere Arnau; Sonia Cho; Xavier Esteve; Thaïs Fadrique; Ignasi Galtés; Emili Garcia; Joan Fornés; Xavier Jordana; Mireia Pedro; Josep Riera; Elena Sintes; Mónica Zubillaga
Oms Arias, Xavier ; López-García, Juan M. ; Mangado, Xavier ; Martín, Patricia ; Mendiela, Susana ; Morales, Juan I. ; Pedro, Mireia ; Rodríguez, Anna ; Rodríguez-Cintas, Àgata ; Yubero, María. Hàbitat en cova i espai pels ramats ca. 6200-6000 BP: dades preliminars de la Cova Colomera (Prepirineu de Lleida) durant el neolític antic. SAGVNTVM. Papeles del Laboratorio de Arqueología de Valencia; Vol 45 (2013); 25-38. | 2014
Xavier Oms Arias; Juan Manuel López-García; Xavier Mangado; Patricia Martin; Susana Mendiela; Juan Ignacio Morales; Mireia Pedro; Anna Rodríguez; Ágata Rodríguez-Cintas; María Yubero
Revista d'arqueologia de Ponent; Núm.: 19 | 2009
F. Xavier Oms; Amèlia Bargalló; Juan Manuel López-García; Juan Ignacio Morales; Mireia Pedro; Alex Solé
Trabajos De Prehistoria | 2017
Joan Daura; Montserrat Sanz; Ignacio Soriano; Mireia Pedro; Ángel Rubio; Mònica Oliva; Juan Francisco Gibaja; I. Queralt; Ramón Álvarez; F. Javier López-Cachero