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Robert Sala

Affiliation : Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social · Universitat Rovira i Virgili

• 14Publications (affiliation in Spain)
• 94Total publications
• 4604Citations
• 38h-index

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Research areas

• Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
• Archaeological and Geological Studies
• Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
• Evolution and Paleontology Studies
• Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Publications (14)

• New chronological constraints for the Plio-Pleistocene section of Dhar Iroumyane (Morocco) and the associated fossil locality of Guefaït-4
  2025 · Quaternary Science Reviews · cited 2 times
• Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa
  2024 · Nature Communications · cited 9 times
• Multiproxy approach to reconstruct fossil primate feeding behavior: Case study for macaque from the Plio-Pleistocene site Guefaït-4.2 (eastern Morocco)
  2023 · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · cited 8 times
• First magnetostratigraphic results in the Aïn Beni Mathar-Guefaït Basin, Northern High Plateaus (Morocco): The Pliocene-Pleistocene Dhar Iroumyane composite section
  2023 · Geobios · cited 5 times
• MobiLithics: Fingerprinting the exploitation of lithic resources during the Upper Pleistocene
  2023 · ACTA IMEKO · cited 1 times
• Pleistocene and Holocene peopling of Jerada province, eastern Morocco: introducing a research project
  2022 · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · cited 4 times
• Guefaït-1 (eastern Morocco), a new stage in the evolution of the late Miocene (Vallesian) small mammalian faunas of Northern Africa
  2022 · Historical Biology · cited 3 times
• New macaque fossil remains from Morocco
  2021 · Journal of Human Evolution · cited 12 times
• First small-sized Dinofelis: Evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of North Africa
  2021 · Quaternary Science Reviews · cited 12 times
• New materials of the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum and auerochs Bos primigenius from a Late Pleistocene terrace of the Oued el Haï (NE Morocco) - two elements of the Maghrebi Palearctic fauna
  2021 · Historical Biology · cited 1 times
• Geomorphological analysis using small unmanned aerial vehicles and submeter GNSS (Gara Soultana butte, High Plateaus Basin, Eastern Morocco)
  2020 · Journal of Maps · cited 8 times
• Golunda aouraghei , sp. nov., the last representative of the genus Golunda in Africa
  2019 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · cited 8 times
• The early Middle Pleistocene archeopaleontological site of Wadi Sarrat (Tunisia) and the earliest record of Bos primigenius
  2014 · Quaternary Science Reviews · cited 39 times
• Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene (Vallesian) of eastern Morocco (Guefaït-1, Jerada Province)
  2013 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · cited 23 times

Publication venues

• Quaternary Science Reviews × 3
• Historical Biology × 2
• Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology × 2
• Nature Communications × 1
• Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution × 1
• Geobios × 1

Publications per year

• 20251
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• 20233
• 20222
• 20213
• 20201
• 20191
• 20141
• 20131

Collaborations

Partner institutions : Histoire Naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques · Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Co-authors’ countries : France · Morocco · United States · Argentina

Co-authors

• M. Gema Chacón
• Jordi Agustı́
• Antonio Rodríguez‐Hidalgo
• Jan van der Made
• Pedro Piñero
• Alfonso Benito‐Calvo
• Hugues‐Alexandre Blain
• Mourad Farkouch
• Carlos Tornero
• Juan Marín
• Florent Rivals
• Palmira Saladié

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