Ramón Fábregas Valcarce is Professor of Prehistory in the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is coordinator of the research group: Grupo de Estudios para la Prehistoria del Noroeste Ibérico - Arqueología, Antigüedad e Territorio (GEPN-AAT).

His research focuses on the morphological and functional analysis of prehistoric lithic materials from funerary and domestic contexts typical of the Iberian Northwest in recent prehistory; the origins of settlements in the Iberian Northwest and the transition between the last hunter-gatherers and the first groups of farmers; the analysis of Galician rock art, megaliths and Palaeolithic rock art in the Iberian Northwest.

He is currently principal investigator of the project “Dinámicas poblacionales y tecnológicas durante el Pleistoceno final-Holoceno de las Sierras Orientales del Noroeste ibérico” (PID2019-107480GB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation with the state programme “Generación de Conocimiento”.

His numerous publications include:

• Rodríguez, X.P., Otte, M., de Lombera, A. & Fábregas, R. eds. (2021): “Palaeolithic of Northwest Iberia and beyond: multidisciplinary approaches to the analysis of Late Quaternary hunter-gatherer societies”. Comptes Rendus Palevol.
• Rodríguez Rellán, C., Nelson, B.A. & Fábregas Valcarce, R. eds. (2020): A taste for green: a global perspective on ancient jade, turquoise and variscite exchange. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
• Cubas, M. et alii. (2020): “Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe”. Nature Communications 11 (1): 2036.
• González-Fortes, G. et alii. (2019) “A Western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286.
• Steelman K., Lombera, A., Viñas, R., Rodríguez, X.P.. Carrera, F., Rubio, A. &; Fábregas, R. (2017): “Cova Eirós: an integrated approach to dating the earliest known cave art in NW Iberia”. Radiocarbon 59.1: 151-164.