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JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 1-9Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012
Keywords
Human tooth; Early Pleistocene; Barranco Leon
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- Direccion General de Bienes Culturales (Consejeria de Cultura, Junta de Andalucia, Spain)
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CGL2010-15326, CGL2010-16821, CGL2012-38358, CGL2008-04896]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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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 Leon, 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 Leon hominin is the oldest from Western Europe. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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