The oldest human fossil in Europe,from Orce (Spain) |
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| Authors: | 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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| Institution: | 1. Museo Arqueológico de Granada, Carrera del Darro 41-43, 18010 Granada, Spain;2. ICREA, Institut de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Àrea de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C/Marcel.lí Domingo s/n, Campus Sescelades, 43007 Tarragona, Spain;3. Center for the Study of Human Origins – CSHO, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003-6790, USA;4. Museum National d''Histoire Naturelle, Département de Préhistoire, UMR 7194 du CNRS, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;5. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo de Atapuerca, 09002 Burgos, Spain;6. Université Paul Valery, Montpellier III, UMR 5140 «Archéologie des sociétés méditerranéennes» Route de Mende, F-34199 Montpellier, France;g Stone Age Institute, Indiana University, 1392 w. Ditterrore Rd., Gasport, IN 47433, USA;h Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain;i Institut de Ciències de la Terra ‘J. Almera’ (CSIC), C/L. Solé Sabarís sn, 08028 Barcelona, Spain;j Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Campus de Fuentenueva, Universidad de Granada, 18003 Granada, Spain;k Centre européen de recherches préhistoriques, avenue Léon-Grégory, 66720 Tautavel, France;l Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología, Orce, Granada 18858, Spain;m Departamento de Geología y Ecología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | Human tooth Early Pleistocene Barranco Leó n |
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