| Literature DB >> 23481345 |
Isidro Toro-Moyano1, 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.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23481345 DOI： 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hum Evol ISSN： 0047-2484 Impact factor: 3.895