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 (+6 others)
2013 Journal of Human Evolution  
The Orce region, which is known in the literature as the Spanish Olduvai, 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 to ~1.4 Ma by a combination of Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), paleomagnetic and biochronologic methods. This is, at the moment, the oldest human remain from Western Europe.
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012 pmid:23481345 fatcat:r556v2nmyvghddeylyctuf2ytu