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  1. Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory

    Article • Antiquity, July 2024, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Jacob Morales

  2. Human colonization of the Canary Islands

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jonathan Santana, Dr Jacob Morales

  3. Palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of hominin occupations of the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3: Evidence from Ararat-1 cave

    Article • Quaternary Science Advances, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  4. The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  5. Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  6. Can material of a putatively extinct new species of Ruta (Rutaceae), preserved with mummies, provide new knowledge about evolution in the Canary Islands flora?

    Article • Willdenowia - Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, February 2023, Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem BGBM

    Dr Jacob Morales

  7. Un lugar entre las dunas. Aprovechamiento oportunista de un espacio costero durante la etapa preeuropea de la isla de Gran Canaria (circa siglos VIII-XI AD)

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, December 2021, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Jacob Morales

  8. Early Middle Stone Age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Essaouira, Morocco

    Article • Science Advances, September 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Jacob Morales

  9. Woodworking in the cliffs? Xylological and morpho-technological analyses of wood remains in the Prehispanic granaries of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  10. High-mountain plant use and management: macro-botanical data from the pre-Hispanic sites of Chasogo and Cruz de Tea, 13–17th centuries AD, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  11. Changing Plant-based Subsistence Practices among Early and Middle Holocene Communities in Eastern Maghreb

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jacob Morales

  12. An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Cultivation in the Canary Islands

    Article • African Archaeological Review, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  13. Archaeoentomological indicators of long-term food plant storage at the Prehispanic granary of La Fortaleza (Gran Canaria, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  14. Pots, plants and animals: Broad-spectrum subsistence strategies in the Early Neolithic of the Moroccan Rif region

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  15. High-resolution late Holocene sedimentary cores record the long history of the city of Cádiz (south-western Spain)

    Article • Scientific Drilling, May 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Jacob Morales

  16. Deeper Than Expected: The Finding of a Remarkable Ancient Harbour at Gadir/Gades and an Exceptional Sedimentary Archive (Cádiz, Southern Spain)

    Article • Journal of Maritime Archaeology, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  17. Human occupation and environmental change in the western Maghreb during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Late Glacial. New evidence from the Iberomaurusian site Ifri El Baroud (northeast Morocco)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  18. Arqueoentomología y arqueobotánica de los espacios de almacenamiento a largo plazo: el granero de Risco Pintado, Temisas (Gran Canaria)

    Article • Trabajos de Prehistoria, June 2019, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Jacob Morales

  19. Oral health in Late Pleistocene and Holocene North West Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  20. The contribution of botanical macro-remains to the study of wild plant consumption during the Later Stone Age and the Neolithic of north-western Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  21. Late Glacial Landscape Dynamics Based on Macrobotanical Data: Evidence From Ifri El Baroud (NE Morocco)

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jacob Morales, Martin Kehl

  22. ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  23. Correction for Fregel et al., Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from both the Levant and Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jacob Morales

  24. Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from both the Levant and Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jacob Morales

  25. Crops of the first farming communities in the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  26. The Use of Wild Plants in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Northwestern Africa: Preliminary Results from the PALEOPLANT Project

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  27. Farmer fidelity in the Canary Islands revealed by ancient DNA from prehistoric seeds

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  28. Food Globalisation and the Red Sea: New Evidence from the Ancient Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Dr Jacob Morales

  29. Evidence for Early Crop Management Practices in the Western Mediterranean: Latest Data, New Developments and Future Perspectives

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  30. An approach to prehistoric shepherding in La Gomera (Canary Islands) through the study of domestic spaces

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  31. Reconsidering the MSA to LSA transition at Taforalt Cave (Morocco) in the light of new multi-proxy dating evidence

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  32. The introduction of South-Western Asian domesticated plants in North-Western Africa: An archaeobotanical contribution from Neolithic Morocco

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  33. The emergence of the Neolithic in North Africa: A new model for the Eastern Maghreb

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  34. The early colonial atlantic world: New insights on the African Diaspora from isotopic and ancient DNA analyses of a multiethnic 15th-17th century burial population from the Canary Islands, Spain

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Jacob Morales

  35. The Roman and Islamic spice trade: New archaeological evidence

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  36. Storage in traditional farming communities of the western Mediterranean: Ethnographic, historical and archaeological data

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, May 2015, Maney Publishing

    Dr Jacob Morales

  37. First preliminary evidence for basketry and nut consumption in the Capsian culture (ca. 10,000–7500BP): Archaeobotanical data from new excavations at El Mekta, Tunisia

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  38. The archaeobotany of long-term crop storage in northwest African communal granaries: a case study from pre-Hispanic Gran Canaria (cal. ad 1000–1500)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jacob Morales

  39. Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jacob Morales

  40. The origins of agriculture in North-West Africa: macro-botanical remains from Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic levels of Ifri Oudadane (Morocco)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales, Dr Guillem Perez Jorda

  41. Holocene environmental change and human impact in NE Morocco: Palaeobotanical evidence from Ifri Oudadane

    Article • The Holocene, May 2013, SAGE Publications

    Martin Kehl, Dr Jacob Morales

  42. Muscle fibre characteristics of a native pig breedlongissimus lumborummuscle

    Article • Journal of Applied Animal Research, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jacob Morales

  43. <i>Vicia vulcanorum</i> (Fabaceae) a new species from the island of Lanzarote (Canary Islands)

    Article • Collectanea Botanica, December 2012, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Jacob Morales

  44. Ancient DNA in archaeological wheat grains: preservation conditions and the study of pre-Hispanic agriculture on the island of Gran Canaria (Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Jacob Morales

  45. The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2012: the fifth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave

    Article • Libyan Studies, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Chris O Hunt, Dr Jacob Morales

  46. The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010: the fourth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007–2009 fieldwork

    Article • Libyan Studies, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jacob Morales

  47. The impact of human activities on the natural environment of the Canary Islands (Spain) during the pre-Hispanic stage (3rd–2nd Century BC to 15th Century AD): an overview

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, April 2009, Maney Publishing

    Dr Jacob Morales

  48. The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2009: the third season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007–2008 fieldwork

    Article • Libyan Studies, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jacob Morales

  49. The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork

    Article • Libyan Studies, February 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jacob Morales