Ignacio de la Torre

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ignacio de la Torre is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignacio de la Torre has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Anthropology, 50 papers in Paleontology and 44 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Ignacio de la Torre's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (92 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (31 papers). Ignacio de la Torre is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (92 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (31 papers). Ignacio de la Torre collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Ignacio de la Torre's co-authors include Rafael Mora Torcal, Alfonso Benito‐Calvo, Adrián Arroyo, Jorge Martínez‐Moreno, Tomos Proffitt, Michael C. Pante, Jackson K. Njau, Lindsay J. McHenry, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo and Luis Luque and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ignacio de la Torre

116 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin too... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language
    2015 319 citations Ignacio de la Torre et al. profile →

Peers

Ignacio de la Torre
David R. Braun United States
Alison S. Brooks United States
Shannon P. McPherron Germany
Berhane Asfaw United States
Nicholas Toth United States
Stephen J. Lycett United Kingdom
Sileshi Semaw United States
Naama Goren‐Inbar Israel
J. A. J. Gowlett United Kingdom
Sally McBrearty United States
David R. Braun United States
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ignacio de la Torre

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ignacio de la Torre. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ignacio de la Torre based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ignacio de la Torre. Ignacio de la Torre is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Torre, Ignacio de la, Luc Doyon, Alfonso Benito‐Calvo, et al.. (2025). Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago. Nature. 640(8057). 130–134. 5 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., S.M.P. Carvalho, Tiago Falótico, et al.. (2024). Tool skill impacts the archaeological evidence across technological primates. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2 indexed citations
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Pei, Shuwen, et al.. (2024). Earliest Prepared core technology in Eurasia from Nihewan (China): Implications for early human abilities and dispersals in East Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2313123121–e2313123121. 5 indexed citations
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Proffitt, Tomos, Jonathan S. Reeves, Tiago Falótico, et al.. (2023). Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study. Journal of Archaeological Science. 152. 105740–105740. 7 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, et al.. (2022). Decoración y uso de un soporte mueble magdaleniense del abrigo de Buendía (Cuenca, España).. SPAL Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla. 1(31). 16–27. 2 indexed citations
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Fujioka, Toshiyuki, Alfonso Benito‐Calvo, Rafael Mora Torcal, et al.. (2022). Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution. 165. 103155–103155. 9 indexed citations
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Key, Alastair, Tomos Proffitt, & Ignacio de la Torre. (2020). Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(162). 20190377–20190377. 35 indexed citations
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Benito‐Calvo, Alfonso, et al.. (2018). 3D 360° surface morphometric analysis of pounding stone tools used by Hadza foragers of Tanzania: A new methodological approach for studying percussive stone artefacts. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 20. 611–621. 26 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, Rosa M. Albert, Adrián Arroyo, et al.. (2017). New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 120. 140–202. 35 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, Rosa M. Albert, Richard I. Macphail, et al.. (2017). The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution. 120. 274–297. 35 indexed citations
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Benito‐Calvo, Alfonso, Adrián Arroyo, Laura Sánchez‐Romero, Michael C. Pante, & Ignacio de la Torre. (2017). Quantifying 3D Micro‐Surface Changes on Experimental Stones Used to Break Bones and Their Implications for the Analysis of Early Stone Age Pounding Tools. Archaeometry. 60(3). 419–436. 35 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, et al.. (2017). Site formation processes of the early Acheulean assemblage at EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution. 120. 298–328. 31 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, Lindsay J. McHenry, Jackson K. Njau, & Michael C. Pante. (2012). The Origins of the Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): A New Paleoanthropological Project in East Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15(1). 13 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la & Alfonso Benito‐Calvo. (2009). Primeras prospecciones geoarqueológicas en el valle de Mieso (sur de Afar, Etiopía). UCL Discovery (University College London).
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Martínez‐Moreno, Jorge, et al.. (2008). Variabilidad Técnica del Paleolítico Medio en el Sudoeste de Europa. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la. (2005). Estudio tecnológico de los yacimientos olduvayenses de Omo (sur de Etiopía). Scientia Insularum Revista de Ciencias Naturales en islas. 1 indexed citations
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Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Manuel & Ignacio de la Torre. (2000). El Paleolítico medio en el Próximo Oriente. Una síntesis regional. Complutensian Scientific Journals (Complutense University of Madrid). 1 indexed citations

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