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| Title: | The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain) |
| Authors: | Toro, Isidro Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido Agustí, Jordi Bermúdez de Castro, José María Martinón-Torres, María Fajardo, Beatriz Duval, Mathieu Falguères, Christophe Oms i Llobet, Oriol Parés, Josep María Anadón, Pere Julià Brugués, Ramón García-Aguilar, José Manuel Moigne, Anne-Marie Espígares Ortiz, María Patrocinio Ros-Montoya, Sergio Palmqvist, Paul |
| Keywords: | Human tooth;Early Pleistocene;Barranco León |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2013 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Citation: | Journal of Human Evolution, 2013, 65 (1), 1-9 |
| Abstract: | The Orce region has one of the best late Pliocene and early Pleistocene continental paleobiological records of Europe. It is situated in the northeastern sector of the intramontane Guadix-Baza Basin (Granada, Andalusia, southern Spain). Here we describe a new fossil hominin tooth from the site of Barranco León, dated between 1.02 and 1.73 Ma (millions of years ago) by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), which, in combination with paleomagnetic and biochronologic data, is estimated to be close to 1.4 Ma. While the range of dates obtained from these various methods overlaps with those published for the Sima del Elefante hominin locality (1.2 Ma), the overwhelming majority of evidence points to an older age. Thus, at the moment, the Barranco León hominin is the oldest from Western Europe. |
| URI: | http://cir.cenieh.es/handle/20.500.12136/461 |
| ISSN: | 0047-2484 1095-8606 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012 |
| Editor version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012 |
| Type: | Article |
| Appears in Collections: | Geocronología y Geología Microscopía y Microtomografía Computarizada |
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