I am an environmental archaeologist and palaeontologist currently interested in the effects of climate and anthropization on the biogeographical histories, genotypes and phenotypes of various species of vertebrates in South East Asia, Middle East and Europe. I am also dedicated to the (multi-proxy) reconstruction of past environments along the Quaternary to study interactions between environmental change and human development. Also interested in the taxonomy, evolution, paleobiology, biochronology, taphonomy, palaeoecology and biogeography of mammals from the Pleistocene and Holocene; and in the phylogeny and adaptations of vertebrates in insular contexts. Recently, I have expanded my interests to any topic related to the zooarchaeology of South East Asia.

Selected Works
Garate, D., Rivero, O., Rios-Garaizar, J., Medina-Alcaide, M. Á., Arriolabengoa, M., Intxaurbe, I., ... & Salazar, S. (2023). Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain). Scientific Reports, 13(1), 17340.

Rodríguez, J., Burjachs, F., Cuenca-Bescós, G., García, N., Van der Made, J., González, A. P., ... & Carbonell, E. (2011). One million years of cultural evolution in a stable environment at Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(11-12), 1396-1412.

Cuenca-Bescós, G., Melero-Rubio, M., Rofes, J., Martínez, I., Arsuaga, J. L., Blain, H. A., ... & de Castro, J. B. (2011). The Early–Middle Pleistocene environmental and climatic change and the human expansion in Western Europe: a case study with small vertebrates (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution, 60(4), 481-491.

Cuenca-Bescos, G., Rofes, J., López-García, J. M., Blain, H. A., Roger, J., Galindo-Pellicena, M. A., ... & Carbonell, E. (2010). Biochronology of Spanish Quaternary small vertebrate faunas. Quaternary International, 212(2), 109-119.

Cuenca-Bescós, G., Rofes, J., & García-Pimienta, J. (2005). Environmental change across the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition: small mammalian evidence from the Trinchera Dolina cave, Atapuerca, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 247(1), 277-286.