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Ramón López-Gijón

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Paleoparasitology
Paleopathology
Bioarchaeology
Biological Anthropology

Ramón López-Gijón holds a PhD in Biomedicine from the University of Granada. With a multidisciplinary background (degree in Archaeology and Master in Physical and Forensic Anthropology), his line of research is based on the finding of parasites in archaeological contexts. To this end, he has carried out pre-doctoral stays in leading laboratories in this field, such as the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge (UK), the Chrono-environment laboratory of the CNRS-Université de Franche-Comté (France), the Oswaldo Cruz Biomedicine Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the Institut für Ur- un Frügeschichte un Archäeologie des Mittelalters of the University of Tübingen (Germany).

His scientific contributions range from the Neolithic to the Modern Age, providing evidence of hygienic-sanitary conditions, agricultural and livestock practices, as well as the presence and/or consumption of domestic and peridomestic animals, through the discovery of parasitic evidence.

These contributions have been supported by anthropological studies, allowing the observation of variations in the prevalence of parasites according to sex and age.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Évora (Portugal) as part of the project “InOSteo – Abordagem Interdisciplinar à Coleção Osteológica do Hospital Militar do Castelo de São Jorge (séculos XII-XIII), Lisboa”.

Teaching

Undergraduation:

Human parasitology

 

Master:

Paleopathology
Main Publications

López-Gijón, R.; Hernández-Robles, A.; Duras, S.; Celma, M.; Curto, A.; González-Ballesteros, J. Á.; Dufour, B.; Le Bailly, M.; Eiroa, J. A. 2025. Using intestinal parasites to identify the utilization of archaeological structures: A 12th-13th century sewer systems from an Islamic funduq (Murcia, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science, 180: 106266. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106266

López-Gijón, R.; Duras, S.; Sánchez Susí, R.; González Recio, M. I.; Rubio Salvador, Á.; Botella López, M. C.; Cámara Serrano, J. A. 2024. Primer hallazgo de Ascaris lumbricoides en un individuo del Calcolítico inicial en la Península Ibérica. SAGVNTVM – Papeles del Laboratorio de Arqueología de Valencia, 56: 113-134. DOI: 10.7203/SAGVNTVM.56.26391

López-Gijón, R.; Jiménez-Brobeil, S. A.; Maroto-Benavides, R. M.; Coppola-Bove, L.; Laffranchi, Z.; Martín-Alonso, J. F.;  Botella-López, M. C. 2024. La paleoparasitología en el estudio de la sociedad islámica altomedieval de la Península Ibérica. Antropologia Portuguesa, 41: 287-296. DOI:  DOI: 10.14195/2182-7982_41_16

López-Gijón, R.; Jiménez-Brobeil, S.; Maroto-Benavides, R.; Duras, S.; Suliman, A.; Fernández-Romero, P. L.; Botella-López, M. C.; Sánchez-Montes, F.; Mitchell, P. D. 2024. Parasite eggs in 16th-18th century cesspits from Granada (Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 53: 104342. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104342

López-Gijón, R.; Camarós, E.; Rubio-Salvador, Á.; Duras, S.; Botella-López, M. C.; Alemán-Aguilera, I.; Rodríguez-Aguilera, A.; Bustamante-Álvarez, M.; Sánchez-Barba, L.P.; Dufour, B.; Le Bailly, M. 2023. Implications of the prevalence of Ascaris sp. in the funerary context of a Late Antique population (5th-7th c.) in Granada (Spain). International Journal of Paleopathology, 43: 45-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.09.002

López‐Gijón, R.; Duras, S.; Maroto‐Benavides, R.; Mena‐Sánchez, L. A.; Camaros, E.; Jiménez‐Brobeil, S. 2023. Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al‐Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(5): 910-919. DOI: 10.1002/oa.3253

López-Gijón, R.; Carnicero, S.; Botella-López, M. C.; Camarós, E. 2023. Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain. International Journal of Paleopathology, 41: 55-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.03.003

López-Gijón, R.; Duras, S.; Botella-López, M. C.; Sentí-Ribes, M. A.; Dufour, B.; Le Bailly, M. 2022. Evidencia paleoparasitológica de Ascaris lumbricoides en restos esqueletizados de época romana de Dianium (Alicante, España). Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, (73), 181-190. DOI: 10.21630/maa.2022.73.10

López-Gijón, R.; Dufour, B.; Coppola-Bove, L.; Martín-Alonso,J. F.; Botella-López, M. C.; Le Bailly, M. 2021. Los inicios de la Paleoparasitología como disciplina científica y su aportación a la Antropología Física. Revista Española de Antropología Física, 44: 41-46.
Research Projects

“InOsteo – Interdisciplinary Approach to the Osteological Collection from the Military Hospital of St. George ́s Castle (17th-18th centuries), Lisbon” 2023-2026; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal (Project ID: 2022.03576.PTDC) Coord.: Ana Rita Curto (University of Évora, Portugal)

“Salud y alimentación en poblaciones del sureste de al- Andalus” 2020-2025;  Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades del Gobierno de España, Spain (Project ID: PID2019-107654GB-100) Coord.: Sylvia A. Jiménez-Brobeil (University of Granada, Spain)

“Celts up and down the Alps: Origin and Mobility patterns on both sides of the Alps during the Late Iron Age (4th-1st century BCE)” 2021-2024; Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (Project ID: 10531FL_197103/1) Coord.: Marco Milella, Zita Laffranchi (University of Bern, Switzerland)

“Proyecto de Revisión y Diagnóstico del Estado de Conservación, Estudio Pluridisciplinar, Adopción de Medidas de Consolidación y Exposición Temporal en el Yacimiento Arqueológico de San Esteban (Murcia)” 2018-2023; Murcia city council/University of Murcia, Spain. Coord.: Jorge A. Eiroa (University of Murcia, Spain)