Mikel Díaz Rodríguez is Interim Lecturer of Prehistory at the Faculty of History of the University of Vigo. Previously, he was a pos-doctoral hired researcher 'Margarita Sala'at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Santiago. He also did a two years stay abroad at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). He obtained his PhD at the USC (2020). He is part of the research group Grupo de Estudos de Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade & Territorio (GEAAT) of the University of Vigo.
His lines of research focus on the application of statistics and spatial analysis to the study of Paleolithic and Prehistoric societies in general. He is currently focused on the study of the extinction of Neanderthals, through the analysis of spatio-temporal trends of sites inhabited by the last Neanderthals and the first Anatomically Modern Humans (HAM) in SW Europe during MIS 3.
Currently, he is taking part of the research project “Dinámicas poblacionales y tecnológicas durante el Pleistoceno final-Holoceno de las Sierras Orientales del Noroeste Ibérico” of the USC, in the project CLIOARCH funded by the ERC (nº 817564) & also the NeanderEDGE project, funded by IRFD (nº 9062-00027B).
Among his main publications, the following stand out:
- Díaz-Rodríguez, M. (2024). Living in the Mountains. Settlement patterns in Northwestern Iberia during the Palaeolithic period. Archaelogical and Anthropological Sciences. 16, 137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02049-7
- Díaz-Rodríguez, M.; Kellberg-Nielsen, T.; Maier, A.; Riede, F. (2023). An Annotated Compilation of Chronometric Dates for the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition (45-30 ka BP) in Northern Iberia (Spain). Journal of Open Archaeology Data. 11, 113. DOI: https//doi.org/10.5334/joad.113.
- Díaz-Rodríguez, M.; Fábregas-Valcarce, R.; Pérez-Alberti, A. (2023). A predictive model for Palaeolithic sites: A case study of Monforte de Lemos basin, NW Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 45, 104012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104012.
- Méndez-Quintas, E.; Santonja, M.; Pérez-González, A.; Díaz-Rodríguez, M. (2022). Lithic taphonomy and site formation processes of the late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean assemblages at Arbo site (Miño River basin, Spain) / Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 43: 103453
- Díaz-Rodríguez, M. & Fábregas-Valcarce, R. (2022). Evaluating the effectiveness of three spatial cluster analysis methods on Palaeolithic site location distributions in Galicia, NW Iberian Peninsula / Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 41: 103323.
- de Lombera Hermida, A.; Rodríguez Álvarez, X. P.; Ameijenda Iglesias, A.; Díaz Rodríguez, M.; Rey Rodríguez, I.; Valverde Tejedor, I.; Pérez Alberti, A.; Cunha, P.; Bal García, H.; Aldea Moreira, X.; Lorenzo Salgueiro, C.; Mosquera Castro, T.; Fábregas Valcarce, R. (2021). Between two worlds: Cova Eirós and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in NW Iberia / Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20(42): 859-886.
- Díaz-Rodríguez, M.; Fábregas-Valcarce, R.; de Lombera-Hermida, A. & Rodríguez-Álvarez, X. P. (2021). Análisis locacional del yacimiento Paleolítico de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo) / Estudos Do Quaternário. 20: 14-32.
- Rey-Rodríguez, I.; López-García, J. M.; Bennasar, M.; Bañuls-Cardona, S.; Blain, H. A.; Blanco-Lapaz, Á.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, X. P.; de Lombera-Hermida, A.; Díaz-Rodríguez, M.; Ameijenda-Iglesias, A.; Agustí, J.; Fábregas-Valcarce, R. (2016). Last Neanderthals and First Anatomically Modern Humans in the NW Iberian Peninsula: Climatic and environmental conditions inferred from the Cova Eirós small-vertebrate assemblage during MIS 3 / Quaternary Science Reviews. 151: 185-197.
