The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain)

Isidro Toro-Moyano; Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro; Jordi Agustí; Caroline Souday; José María Bermúdez de Castro; María Martinón-Torres; Beatriz Fajardo; Mathieu Duval; Christophe Falguères; Oriol Oms; Josep Maria Parés; Pere Anadón; Ramón Julià; José Manuel García-Aguilar; Anne Marie Moigne; María Patrocinio Espigares; Sergio Ros-Montoya; Paul Palmqvist

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012

The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain)

Isidro Toro-Moyano, Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Jordi Agustí, Caroline Souday, José María Bermúdez de Castro, María Martinón-Torres, Beatriz Fajardo, Mathieu Duval, Christophe Falguères, Oriol Oms, Josep Maria Parés, Pere Anadón, Ramón Julià, José Manuel García-Aguilar, Anne Marie Moigne, María Patrocinio Espigares, Sergio Ros-Montoya, Paul Palmqvist

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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 1.73Ma (millions of years ago) by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), which, in combination with paleomagnetic and biochronologic data, is estimated to be close to 1.4Ma. While the range of dates obtained from these various methods overlaps with those published for the Sima del Elefante hominin locality (1.2Ma), the overwhelming majority of evidence points to an older age. Thus, at the moment, the Barranco León hominin is the oldest from Western Europe. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Journal	Journal of Human Evolution
Volume	65
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2013

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Barranco León
Early Pleistocene
Human tooth

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Toro-Moyano, I., Martínez-Navarro, B., Agustí, J., Souday, C., Bermúdez de Castro, J. M., Martinón-Torres, M., Fajardo, B., Duval, M., Falguères, C., Oms, O., Parés, J. M., Anadón, P., Julià, R., García-Aguilar, J. M., Moigne, A. M., Espigares, M. P., Ros-Montoya, S., & Palmqvist, P. (2013). The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain). Journal of Human Evolution, 65(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012

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