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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. Gibert ,
Ll. Gibert ,
A. Iglesias  and
E. Maestro
J. Gibert
Affiliation:
Instituto Paleontología ‘M. Crusafont’, Escola Industrial 23, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain. ciberorce@mx3.redestb.es
Ll. Gibert
Affiliation:
Instituto Paleontología ‘M. Crusafont’, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain Dept. Recursos naturals i contaminació, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
A. Iglesias
Affiliation:
Dept. Prehistoria, Universidad Santiago, Plaza Universidade S/N, 15701 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E. Maestro
Affiliation:
Dept. Geología, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Edifici C, Campus Universitari, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Abstract

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.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 17 - 25
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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