Two ‘Oldowan’ assemblages in the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Orce region, southeast Spain

• Autores: Jordi Gibert Rebull, Lluís Gibert Beotas, Aquilino Iglesia Ferreirós, E. Maestro
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 72, Nº 275, 1998, págs. 17-25
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Stone artefacts reported from the Orce region (Grenada, Spain) indicate a first human presence in western Europe as early as the Plio-Pleistocene boundary, making a ‘long chronology’ for European hominids against the claims for a briefer human presence. Excavations of Barranco León-5 and Fuentenueva-3a in 1995 have produced two groups of lithic artefacts of ‘Oldowan’ type, seen as the most ancient of western Europe by faunal associations and palaeomagnetic study.