Alejandro Valenzuela

Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies — SI

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

7h-index159citations20works0.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Archaeology and ancient environmental studies(11), Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History(7), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(5), Maritime and Coastal Archaeology(5), Archaeology and Historical Studies(4)

Publications20 total

Lights and shadows in the postcranial evolution of the insular lineage of Nesiotites Bate 1954 (Eulipotyphla, Nectogalini): from Asoriculus to extinction
2025Open Access
Urban Consumption of Thrushes in the Early Roman City of Pollentia, Mallorca (Spain)
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Multianalytical approach to the exceptional Late Roman shipwreck of Ses Fontanelles (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
El fuerte romano republicano de Ses Salines (Mallorca): aportaciones a sus características y cronología
Gladius·2023Open Access
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology·2023· 5 cited
A ceramic assemblage from the Byzantine period in the city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks·2023
Multianalytical approach to the exceptional Late Roman shipwreck of Ses Fontanelles (Mallorca, Balearic Islands)
Research Square (Research Square)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Gymnesic Islands at the crossroads: Livestock body size as marker of social interactions during the first millennium BC
Quaternary International·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Asynchronous ecological upheavals on the Western Mediterranean islands: New insights on the extinction of their autochthonous small mammals
The Holocene·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
New insights into the historical translocation of the Algerian hedgehog and pine marten throughout the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean): refining the radiocarbon‐based chronology
Journal of Zoology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Broadening the Scope of Bone Anvils: Direct AMS<sup>14</sup>C Dating from the Island of Menorca (Western Mediterranean)
Radiocarbon·2016· 1 cited
Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2016· 13 citedOpen Access
Closing the gap: New data on the last documented <i>Myotragus</i> and the first human evidence on Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean Sea)
The Holocene·2016· 48 cited
Archaeological evidence for the introduction of Emys orbicularis (Testudines: Emydidae) in the Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean
Amphibia-Reptilia·2016· 6 cited
The chronology of the introduction of two species of Martes (Carnivora, Mustelidae) on the Western Mediterranean Islands: first direct radiocarbon evidence
Biological Invasions·2015· 8 cited
An ancient fishery of Banded dye-murex (Hexaplex trunculus): zooarchaeological evidence from the Roman city of Pollentia (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean)
Journal of Archaeological Science·2014· 19 cited
Nest Predators of Flightless Steamer-Ducks (<i>Tachyeres pteneres</i>) and Flying Steamer-Ducks (<i>Tachyeres patachonicus</i>)
Waterbirds·2014· 12 citedOpen Access
The Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca): a singular deposit bearing an exceptional well preserved Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna
International Journal of Speleology·2014· 10 citedOpen Access
Documenting Introductions: The Earliest Evidence for the Presence of Dog (<i>Canis familiaris</i>Linnaeus 1758) in the Prehistory of the Balearic Islands
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology·2013· 7 cited
Radiocarbon evidence for a prehistoric deliberate translocation: the weasel (Mustela nivalis) of Mallorca
Biological Invasions·2012· 17 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Josep Antoni Alcover(10), Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros(5), Enric Torres‐Roig(3), Leandro Fantuzzi(3), Pere Rosselló Bover(2), Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert(2), Darío Bernal Casasola(2), Alessandra Pecci(2), José Alberto Retamosa Gámez(2), Sebastià Munar Llabrés(2), Enrique García Riaza(2), Alan Cooper(1), Joan Pons(1), Karis Baker(1), Ruth F. Carden(1), Jane Evans(1), Thomas Higham(1), A. Rus Hoelzel(1), Angela L. Lamb(1), Richard Madgwick(1)