María José Iriarte-Chiapusso

Ikerbasque Research Professor, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archeology of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

Research line:

Archaeology, Paleobotany and Paleopalynology.

More than 20 years of research experience.

Doctor in History in 1994, from the University of the Basque Country.

Publications

2025

Article / Strengthening the evidence for seasonal intertidal exploitation in Mesolithic Europe and new insights into Early Holocene environmental conditions in the Bay of Biscay from the oxygen isotope composition of Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) shells

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

García-Escárzaga, A.; León-Cristóbal, A.; Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Colonese, A.C.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Iriarte, E.; Fano, M.Á.

2024

Book / En torno a la mesa. Contribuciones sobre la alimentación y sus implicaciones sociales en la Prehistoria y Mundo Antiguo

Anejos de Veleia. Serie Minor. ISBN: 9788413196169

García-Soler, M.J., Iriarte.Chiapusso, M.J. (eds)

Article / Las mujeres en la arqueología de la comunidad autónoma del País Vasco

Munibe (Antropología-Arkeologia)

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J., García-Ibaibarriaga, N.

Article / Changes in pollen and small mammal spectrum compositions and in human-landscape relationships during the last 40,000 years of the Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain

Quaternary International

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Alfaro-Ibañez, M.P.; Cuenca-Bescós, G.; González-Morales, M.R.; Straus, L.G.

2023

Article / Le Gravettien sur le versant sud des Pyrénées occidentales: une synthèse

Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Ariège-Pyrénées

Arrizabalaga, A., García-Ibaibarriaga, N., Villaluenga, Calvo, A., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Article / Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources

Annals of Glaciology

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Ayerdi, M.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Pérez-Fernández, A.J.; Villaluenga, A.; Arrizabalaga-Iriarte, J.; Lejonagoitia-Garmendia, L.; Arrizabalaga, A.

2022

Article / The intrusive nature of the Châtelperronian in the Iberian Peninsula

PLoS ONE

1. Rios-Garaizar J., Iriarte E., Arnold L.J., Sánchez-Romero L., Marín-Arroyo A.B., San Emeterio A., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Pérez-Garrido, C., Demuro, M., Campaña, I., Bourguignon, L., Benito-Calvo, A., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J., Aranburu, A., 2, Arranz, A., Garate, D., Silva-Gago, M., Lahaye, C., Ortega, I.

Article / The intrusive nature of the Châtelperronian in the Iberian Peninsula

PLoS ONE

Rios-Garaizar, J.; Iriarte, E.; Arnold, L.J.; Sánchez-Romero, L.; Marín-Arroyo, A.B.; Emeterio, A.S.; Gómez-Olivencia, A.; Pérez-Garrido, C.; Demuro, M.; Campaña, I.; Bourguignon, L.; Benito-Calvo, A.; Iriarte, M.J.; Aranburu, A.; Arranz-Otaegi, A.; Garate, D.; Silva-Gago, M.; Lahaye, C.; Ortega, I.

2021

Article / Late Pleistocene Palaeoenvironmental Variations from Marine Isotope Stages 5 and 4: Small Mammals at Artazu VIII Site (Arrasate, Northern Iberian Peninsula)

Ameghiniana

Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Ortiz, J.E.; Torres, T.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Murelaga, X.

Article / Gravettian and Solutrean in the Basque Crossroads: Climate changes and human adaptations in the western Pyrenees

Quaternary International

Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.

Article / Late Neanderthal subsistence strategies and cultural traditions in the northern Iberia Peninsula: Insights from Prado Vargas, Burgos, Spain

Quaternary Science Reviews

Ruiz, M.N.; Benito-Calvo, A.; Alonso-Alcalde, R.; Alonso, P.; Fuente, H.d.l.; Santamaría, M.; Santamaría, C.; Álvarez-Vena, A.; Arnold, L.J.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Demuro, M.; Lozano, M.; Ortiz, J.E.; Torres, T.

2020

Article / The Gravettian on the Basque Crossroads: a glimpse of Palaeolithic territoriality

Comptes Rendus Palevol

Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso M. J.

Article / Paleoenvironments and human adaptations during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula: a review.

Quaternary International

Cascalheira, J., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Alcolea-González, J., de Andrés-Herrero, M., Arrizabalaga, A., Aura Tortosa, J.E., Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Article / Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental variations from 1 marine isotope stages 5 and 4: small mammals at Artazu VIII 2 site (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Ameghiniana

AITZIBER SUÁREZ-BILBAO, NAROA GARCIA-IBAIBARRIAGA, JOSE EUGENIO ORTIZ, TRINIDAD TORRES, ALVARO ARRIZABALAGA, MARÍA JOSÉ IRIARTE-CHIAPUSSO, XABIER MURELAGA

Article / At the edge of the Cantabrian sea. New data on the Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological open-air site of Bañugues (Gozón, Asturias, Spain): Palaeogeography, geoarchaeology and geochronology

Quaternary International

Álvarez-Alonso, D.; Jordá Pardo, J.F.; Carral, P.; Flor-Blanco, G.; Flor, G.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Kehl, M.; Klasen, N.; Maestro, A.; Rodríguez Asensio, A.; Weniger, G.C.

Article / Holocene history of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) woodlands in the Ebro Basin (NE Spain): Climate-biased or human-induced?

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Aranbarri, J.; Alcolea, M.; Badal, E.; Vila, S.; Allué, E.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Sebastián, M.; Magri, D.; González-Sampériz, P.

Article / The Late Pleistocene avifauna from Artazu VII (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Historical Biology

Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Elorza, M.; Castaños, J.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Murelaga, X.

Article / Palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of human occupations at El Cierro cave (Northern Spain) during the transition from the late Upper Pleistocene to the early Holocene

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Bécares, J.; Jordá Pardo, J.F.; Agirre-Uribesalgo, A.; Álvarez-Alonso, D.; Aparicio, M.T.; Barrera-Mellado, I.; Carral, P.; Carriol, R.P.; Cubas, M.; Cueto, M.; Douka, K.; Elorza, M.; Fernández-Gómez, M.J.; Gabriel, S.; García-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Llave, C.; Maestro, A.; Martín-Jarque, S.; Portero, R.; Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Tarriño, A.; Teira, L.C.; Uzquiano, P.; Arias, P.

Article / The gravettian on the basque crossroads: A glimpse of palaeolithic territoriality

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

2019

Article / A structure from the sixth millennium cal BC with no artifactual content at San Quirce (Palencia, Spain): a multidisciplinary study

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Terradillos-Bernal, M.; Allué, E.; Carrancho, Á.; Díez Fernández-Lomana, J.C.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Jordá Pardo, J.F.; Vallverdú, J.

Article / A large mammal assemblage during MIS 5c: Artazu VII (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Historical Biology

Castaños, J.; Castaños, P.; Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Murelaga, X.

Article / Arrillor cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Penisula). Chronological, palaeo-environmental and cultural notes on a long Mousterian sequence

Quaternary International

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Wood, R.; Sáenz de Buruaga, A.

Article / Palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the Cantabrian Region during Greenland stadial 2 approached through pollen and micromammal records: State of the art

Quaternary International

Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Murelaga, X.

Article / The magdalenian decorated antler rods (“baguettes”) of Ezkuzta (Basque Country)

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia

Barandiarán, I.; Cava, A.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

2018

Article / La vid silvestre euroasiática, un recurso fitogenético amenazado ligado a la historia de la humanidad

Enovitivultura

Ocete, C.A., Martínez Zapater, J.M., Ocete, R., Lara, M., Cantos, M., Arroyo, R., Morales, R., Iriarte–Chiapusso, M.J., Hidalgo, J., Valle, J.M., Rodríguez–Miranda, A., Armendáriz, I., Lovicu, G., Maghradze, D., Puig Pujol, A., Ibáñez, J.

Article / Identificación de poblaciones de vid silvestre y parras guiadas sobre las fachadas de los caseríos de la Cuadrilla de Ayala (Álava, España)

Munibe, Ciencias naturales

Hidalgo, J., Martínez-Zapater, J.M., Ocete, R., Lara, M., Rodríguez, A., Valle, J.M., Morales, R., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J., Alvar-Ocete, C., Ibáñez, J.

Article / Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretation of the stratigraphic sequence of Lezetxiki II Cave (Basque Country, Iberian Peninsula) inferred from small vertebrate assemblages

Quaternary Research (United States)

Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Bailon, S.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Arnold, L.; Demuro, M.; Murelaga, X.

Article / The last hornbeam forests in SW Europe: new evidence on the demise of Carpinus betulus in NW Iberia

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Muñoz Sobrino, C.; García-Moreiras, I.; Gómez-Orellana, L.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Heiri, O.; Lotter, A.F.; Ramil-Rego, P.

Article / A middle palaeolithic wooden digging stick from aranbaltza III, Spain

PLoS ONE

Rios-Garaizar, J.; López-Bultó, O.; Iriarte, E.; Pérez-Garrido, C.; Piqué, R.; Aranburu, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Ortega-Cordellat, I.; Bourguignon, L.; Garate, D.; Libano, I.

Review / The Chalcolithic site of Karea in the context of burial caves in Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia

Aranburu-Mendizabal, A.; Sarasketa-Gartzia, I.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Taldea, A.A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, J.M.A.

2017

Article / New evidence of bones used as fuel in the Gravettian Coímbre cave, northern Iberian Peninsule

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Yravedra, J.; Alvarez-Alonso, D.; Estaca-Gómez, V.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Elorza, M.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M. J; Jordá-Pardo, J.F.; Sesé, C.; Uzquiano, P.,

Article / La vid silvestre. Un importante recurso fitogenético sin protección legal en España.

Rivar (Revista iberoamericana de viticultura, agroindustria y ruralidad)

Lara, M., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J., Cantos, M., García Jiménez, J.L., Morales, R., Ocete, C.A., López, M.A., Salinas, J.A., Rubio, I., Hidalgo, J., Íñiguez, M., Rodríguez, A., Valle, J.M., Arroyo-García, R., Ayala, M.C., Armendáriz, I., Maghradze, D., Arno

Article / Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach to the upper pleistocene site of Artazu VII (Arrasate, Northern Iberian Peninsula) using small vertebrates

Ameghiniana

Suárez-Bilbao, A.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Murelaga, X.

Article / Vitis vinifera in the Iberian Peninsula: A review

Plant Biosystems

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Ocete-Pérez, C.A.; Hernández-Beloqui, B.; Ocete-Rubio, R.

Article / Subsistence, mobility and environmental adaptation of the Gravettian hunter-gatherers in the western part of Cantabria: Coímbre cave (Asturias)

Trabajos de Prehistoria

Álvarez-Alonso, D.; Yravedra, J.; Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Calvo, A.; Carral, P.; Chiapusso, M.J.I.; Pardo, J.F.J.; Sesé, C.; Uzquiano, P.; Arrizabalaga, Á.

2016

Article / El impacto antrópico sobre la vid silvestre en el territorio de Lapurdi (suroeste de Francia).

Munibe, Ciencias Naturales - Natur Zientziak

Rodríguez, Álvaro; Hidalgo, Juanjo; Arrimadas, Jesús; Ocete, Carlos-Alvar; Duhart, Frédéric; Ocete, Rafael; Iriarte-Chiapusso, María José; Valle, José Manuel

Article / El paisaje vegetal en la Prehistoria vasca, a través del registro polínico

Kobie Serie Paleoantropología

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Article / Lydia Zapata. Una vida de dedicación

Kobie Serie Paleoantropología

San Pedro, Z., Regalado, E., Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Article / The contribution of open-air sites to the environmental reconstruction of the Gravettian at the “Basque Crossroads” (North Iberia)

Quaternary International

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Arrizabalaga, A.

Article / Reviewing the Lateglacial-Holocene transition in NW Iberia: A palaeoecological approach based on the comparison between dissimilar regions

Quaternary International

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Muñoz Sobrino, C.; Gómez-Orellana, L.; Hernández-Beloqui, B.; García-Moreiras, I.; Fernández Rodriguez, C.; Heiri, O.; Lotter, A.F.; Ramil-Rego, P.

Article / In the western route for the population of Iberian Peninsula

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia

Arrizabalaga, A.; Prieto, A.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Calvo, A.; Dominguez-Ballesteros, E.; Ochoa, B.; Ordono, J.; Romero, A.; Villaluenga, A.; Tapia, J.; Ayerdi, M.; Echazarreta, A.; Hernandez-Beloqui, B.; Medina, M.Á.; Bradtmöller, M.; Suarez, A.; Sarasketa, I.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Editorial / Looking at the sky, walking on the earth. Climatic changes and historical evolution in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Western Europe

Quaternary International

García-Martínez de Lagrán, I.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.

Review / San Adrian: A new site of the Bronze Age in the north of the Iberian peninsula

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia

Tapia, J.; Cubas, M.; Ceberio, M.; Moraza, A.; Agirre-Mauleon, J.; Alonso, E.; Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Areso, P.; Armendariz, Á.; Castaños, P.; Castaños, J.; Etxeberria, F.; Garmendia, J.; Herrasti, L.; Iriarte Chiapusso, M.J.; Pérez, D.; Uriz, A.; Zapata, L.

2015

Article / The vegetational and climatic contexts of the Lower Magdalenian human burial in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain): Implications related to human behavior

Journal of Archaeological Science

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Cuenca-Bescós, G.

Article / The return to the Iberian Peninsula: First Quaternary record of Muscardinus and a palaeogeographical overview of the genus in Europe

Quaternary Science Reviews

Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; Arrizabalaga, Á.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Rofes, J.; Murelaga, X.

Article / The Late Holocene in the western Pyrenees: A critical review of the current situation of palaeopalynological research

Quaternary International

Hernández-Beloqui, B.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Echazarreta-Gallego, A.; Ayerdi, M.

Article / Short-term Neandertal occupations in the late Middle Pleistocene of Arlanpe (Lemoa, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Rios-Garaizar, J.; Maidagan, D.G.; Gómez-Olivencia, A.; Iriarte, E.; Arceredillo-Alonso, D.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, N.; García-Moreno, A.; Gutierrez-Zugasti, I.; Torres, T.; Aranburu, A.; Arriolabengoa, M.; Bailón, S.; Murelaga, X.; Ordiales, A.; Ortiz, J.E.; Rofes, J.; Pedro, Z.S.

2014

Article / Identifying the Signs: The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in northern Iberia from the Perspective of the Lithic Record

Journal of Lithic Studies

Arrizabalaga, A., Ríos-Garaizar,, J., Maíllo-Fernández, J.M., Iriarte Chiapusso, M.J.

Article / The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

Nature

Higham, T.; Douka, K.; Wood, R.; Ramsey, C.B.; Brock, F.; Basell, L.; Camps, M.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Baena, J.; Barroso-Ruíz, C.; Bergman, C.; Boitard, C.; Boscato, P.; Caparrós, M.; Conard, N.J.; Draily, C.; Froment, A.; Galván, B.; Gambassini, P.; Garcia-Moreno, A.; Grimaldi, S.; Haesaerts, P.; Holt, B.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Jelinek, A.; Jordá Pardo, J.F.; Maíllo-Fernández, J.M.; Marom, A.; Maroto, J.; Menéndez, M.; Metz, L.; Morin, E.; Moroni, A.; Negrino, F.; Panagopoulou, E.; Peresani, M.; Pirson, S.; De La Rasilla, M.; Riel-Salvatore, J.; Ronchitelli, A.; Santamaria, D.; Semal, P.; Slimak, L.; Soler, J.; Soler, N.; Villaluenga, A.; Pinhasi, R.; Jacobi, R.

Article / Among the limpets: Initial assessment of marine remains at the Holocene site of J3 (Hondarribia, Basque Country)

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia

Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Arrizabalaga, Á.; Barrera-Mellado, I.; Carriol, R.P.; Fernández-Gómez, M.J.; Gabriel, S.

Article / The chronology of the earliest Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia: New insights from L'Arbreda, Labeko Koba and La Viña

Journal of Human Evolution

Wood, R.E.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Camps, M.; Fallon, S.; Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J.; Jones, R.; Maroto, J.; De la Rasilla, M.; Santamaría, D.; Soler, J.; Soler, N.; Villaluenga, A.; Higham, T.F.G.

2013

Article / La vid silvestre, un taxón amenazado en diversos ecosistemas ibéricos

Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J. Salinas, J.A. Pérez, M.A., Ocete, M.A. & Ocete, R.

Article / Por un paisaje con figuras

Revista Arkeogazte

Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J. & Zapata, L

Article / Biometric analysis of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes, at a Holocene archaeological site in Jaizkibel (Basque Country, northern Spain)

Holocene

Álvarez-Fernández, E.; Barrera, I.; Borja, A.; Fernández, M.; Iriarte, M.; Arrizabalaga, A.